Radiation Test Engineer

Location: Onsite in San Carlos, California, or Kent, Washington, United States

Salary: $165,000–$190,000 annually

Company

hirify.global Corporation is building modular, scalable satellite infrastructure for space-based solar energy, high-performance computing, and secure optical data transport.

What you will do

• Design and bring up reusable motherboards, device-specific daughterboards, bias and protection circuits, fixtures, and interfaces for component radiation testing.
• Develop maintainable automation for instrument control, stimulus generation, electrical characterization, event logging, and data reduction.
• Establish calibration and verification procedures; characterize uncertainty, repeatability, noise, timing, and event-detection limits.
• Prepare and execute heavy-ion and other component radiation campaigns, including readiness checks, sample preparation, beam access, and facility coordination.
• Record beam, dosimetry, exposure, and device operating data and correlate it with electrical measurements and observed events.
• Investigate unexpected results, deliver reproducible analyses and reports, and improve characterization benches, fixtures, documentation, and checkout procedures.

Requirements

• Degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience testing electronic hardware under radiation, with an understanding of single-event effects and total ionizing dose.
• Experience designing, bringing up, and debugging PCB-based test hardware, including bias circuits, component interfaces, and electrical measurements.
• Ability to develop maintainable test automation and data-analysis software in Python or a comparable language.
• Practical experience with source measure units, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and data-acquisition systems.
• Careful measurement and documentation practices, including calibration checks, raw-data preservation, anomaly investigation, and explaining result limitations.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain the authorizations required under ITAR.

Nice to have

• Heavy-ion or proton testing at external facilities, including device preparation and beamline setup.
• High-voltage or power-semiconductor characterization, including protection and recovery during testing.
• Embedded C/C++, microcontroller or FPGA interfaces, and instrument-control libraries.
• Radiation test methods and standards, uncertainty analysis, or reusable test-platform development.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on individual-contributor role collaborating with radiation effects engineers, avionics designers, and external test facilities.
• Equity in hirify.global Corporation.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
• 401(k), paid time off, 10 paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Relocation assistance if applicable, daily office lunch, and a stocked kitchen.