# Senior Radiation Effects Engineer

As a member of our Radiation Effects team, you will be responsible for evaluating adequate component selection and board designs to ensure reliable hardware performance. This role will assess radiation risks to electronic components, develop mitigation strategies, and work closely with electrical, mechanical, and test teams to ensure mission-level radiation tolerance. You will play a critical role in the development of our systems as we advance our efforts towards safe, reliable, inexpensive, and innovative access to space. The position is based in Huntsville, Al. Requirements Responsibilities Conduct component and circuit board radiation susceptibility and risk assessments. Identify radiation-induced failure modes and develop mitigation techniques. Derive radiation environments for specific mission profiles using Monte Carlo analytical tools. Evaluate customer radiation requirements for TID, Total Ionizing Dose and SEE, Single Event Effects. Create design standards for electrical and mechanical engineers to maximize radiation reliability on-orbit. Develop qualification testing guidelines and reporting standards. Establish requirements for component procurement specifications. Comp

- **Id**: 3986003
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cosmicsystems-senior-radiation-effects-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Huntsville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T21:37:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T18:45:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2730
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advanced Materials, Satellite Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 4375684
- **Name**: Cosmicsystems
- **Domain**: cosmicsystems.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cosmicsystems>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

## Technologies

- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T21:37:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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