Radiation Engineer

Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) is seeking Radiation Engineer candidates for a potential opportunity to support NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a federally funded research and development center located in California. Work may be performed at JPL or customer locations, or remotely, depending on contractual and operational requirements.

This role will perform duties related to the selection, use, evaluation, analysis, and/or testing/qualification of electronic parts for use in radiation environments. Apply knowledge of industry and/or academic practices and standards across a range of applications and systems. Provide technical support to radiation effects tasks including performance of radiation effects analysis, total dose and single event effects testing, modeling of radiation effects, and reporting on device radiation effects performance. Applies understanding of radiation effects to define device performance, assess risk, and support device selection and application.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree with equivalent course work in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science/Engineering, Applied Mathematics or related technical discipline and at least 2 years of experience in parts engineering activities.
• Experience must include one or more related fields within the following areas: parts development, fabrication, manufacturing, process integration, reliability assessment, and test and/or qualification.
• Requires understanding and wide application of advanced principles, theories, concepts and techniques in electronic parts technologies resulting in contributions to the development of new test and qualification methodologies.