Electronics Design Engineer - Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!     

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States. 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Electronics Design Engineer – Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer to join the team.

** We are actively searching for qualified candidates for this potential opening; however, we do not have assurance at this time when the position will be finalized and opened. Because we have strong reason to believe the position will be approved soon, we are proceeding with identifying qualified candidates and conducting interviews. **

The Electronics Design Engineer – Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer will:

• Report directly to the Electronics and Electrical Section Manager as part of group of over 45 other Electronics and Electrical Engineers
• Be familiar with systems engineering and integration (S&EI) and/or specialty engineering for NASA spaceflight (or similar complexity).
• Support new projects and sustaining efforts throughout product life cycle, including: standards adjudications, system requirements reviews, preliminary design reviews, critical design reviews, manufacturing readiness reviews, flight readiness reviews, and failure investigations, as well as testing, analysis, inspection, sustaining support efforts.
• Drive critical decision-making processes for performing radiation testing, deriving part performance classification and taxonomy, and improving vehicle and subsystem level radiation reliability and survivability. 
• Establish applicable ionizing radiation requirements.   
• Predict environmental stresses to vehicles flown in ionizing radiation environments.  
• Write verification test plans, test procedures, and test reports against product requirement.
• Ability to read and understand schematics for circuit and system diagrams to evaluate upstream and downstream impacts for transient analysis.
• Collaborate with design engineers, project personnel, and other stakeholders to evaluate performance of electronic hardware and assess need to address impacts to functional, performance, reliability, and availability metrics.
• Support program activities on behalf of subject matter experts (SMEs) by assessing relevance information with technical discussions to determine need to request SME consideration, and then accurately conveying SME assessments back to program and project stakeholders.
• Make recommendations for design, process improvements, and data collection.
• Perform root-cause analysis of test failures and communicate recommended actions.
• Present test results and data analyses to team members, project engineers, program managers, systems engineers, formal boards/panels, and more.
• Ability to adapt in the face technical hurdles and overcome challenges associated with increasing use of industrial-grade and automotive-grade components in space applications.
• Familiarity with Poisson, Markov, and/or Gaussian statistical analysis.
• Willingness to work in a technically challenging field.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, etc.).
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Comply with all radiation regulatory requirements for radiation safety.
• Perform other duties as required.