Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer Job at Amentum (Houston)

Job Description

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 Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer to join the team with Oceaneering, a teammate company with the Engineering Division.

Job Responsibility

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
Tailor Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) requirements based upon mission, environment, application, and lifetime (MEAL) factors as well as program/project risk posture
Bound stochastic and deterministic electronics failure modes induced by natural space radiation environment
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

Requirements

Typically requires a bachelor's degree in Engineering and a minimum of 1 year of experience in the field or in a related area
Be familiar with the subject matter expertise (SME) and/or specialty engineering field in radiation effects in microelectronics for NASA spaceflight (or similar complexity)
Work directly with technicians, engineers, managers, and other stakeholders on a wide variety of Projects
Possess technical knowledge of radiation effects in microelectronics and avionics systems, may include: basic mechanisms for single-event effects and total dose, test strategies, mitigation techniques, and analysis of circuits, systems, and data links
Be familiar with the suite of activities known as Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) for avionics (analog, digital, power, etc.): determining Mission, Environment, Application, and Lifetime (MEAL) factors, developing and interpreting requirements, bill-of-materials requirement gap analysis, radiation testing, environment definition, radiation transport, shielding analysis, dose-depth curves, Single-Event Effects Criticality Analysis (SEECA), derating, Safe Operating Area (SOA), Radiation Design Margin (RDM), etc.
Assess EEE parts, circuits, functions, components, subsystems, and systems to evaluate risks, effectiveness of mitigation strategies, and the ability to meet functional, performance, and reliability requirements during and after exposure to the mission ionizing radiation environment
Lead or support screening and characterization test efforts for heavy ion, proton, and pulsed-laser Single-Event Effects (SEE), Total Ionizing Dose (TID), Enhanced Low-Dose Rate Sensitivity (ELDRS), Total Non-Ionizing Dose (TNID), Displacement Damage Dose (DDD), etc.
Create detailed radiation assessments, presentations, test plans, analyses, and reports
Design, troubleshoot, and repair new and existing radiation test setups, may include: cables, laboratory test equipment, printed circuit boards, software, firmware, hardware description languages, etc.
Test Engineer / Lab Scientist with at least 1 year experience
Proof of U.S. Citizenship or US Permanent Residency may be a requirement for this position
Must be able to complete a U.S. government background investigation

Nice to have

BS degree in Electrical Engineering/ Materials Engineering / Aerospace Engineering/ Nuclear Engineering/ Physics in related radiation area from an accredited engineering school and a minimum of zero (0) years of related engineering experience, or a MS/ PhD in related radiation area with degree in Electrical Engineering / Materials Engineering / Aerospace Engineering/ Nuclear Engineering/ Physics from an accredited engineering school
Experience with test hardware such as oscilloscopes, multi-meters, logic analyzers, function generators, electronic load banks, power supplies, power analyzers
Familiar with systems engineering and integration (S&EI) and/or specialty engineering for NASA spaceflight (or similar complexity) with systems engineering and integration (S&EI) and/or specialty engineering for NASA spaceflight (or similar complexity)
Prior experience in design and test of analog instrumentation systems
Project based experience designing, building, testing, and troubleshooting power distribution electronics, battery systems, and other electrical hardware (requirements definition
system modeling and simulation
circuit analysis
PCB design, fabrication
requirements verification)
Excellent fabrication, and assembly
harness fabrication
requirements verification)
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team of mechanical, electrical, and software engineers designing and building world-class, NASA spaceflight hardware
Prior experience in design and test of power supply and conditioning systems
Proficient in MS Office programs, particularly MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook
Excellent communication and organizational skills and the ability to work in a team environment

What we offer

Excellent personal and professional career growth
9/80 work schedule (every other Friday off), when applicable
Onsite cafeteria (breakfast & lunch)

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