Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer

The Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer will support the space program located in Houston, Texas (77058). Are you passionate about human space exploration and avionics development? Join our diverse, mission‑driven team! We need your creativity, teamwork, and diverse perspectives to help build systems that enable space exploration and benefit life on Earth. Join us as we tackle exciting challenges for NASA's deep‑space missions.

Amentum is NASA's largest engineering solutions provider, working together with centers across the United States.

• Support projects across the product life cycle, collaborate with engineering teams, interpret schematics, and recommend design improvements.
• Lead radiation testing and analysis, tailor RHA requirements, derive part performance classifications, and assess radiation‑induced failure modes.
• Evaluate electronic hardware performance and present test results, analyses, and risk assessments to engineering and program leadership.
• Address technical challenges, including those related to industrial‑and automotive‑grade components used in space systems.
• Other duties as assigned.

This position has been posted at multiple levels (must meet minimum level indicated). Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• This position requires US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status due to the sensitivity of customer related information.
• This position requires experience in the space industry or Department of Defense/Department of War.
• Must have a bachelor's degree in the field of engineering.
• Must have a minimum of 1 years of recent and related work experience.
• Possess technical knowledge of radiation effects in microelectronics and/or avionics systems, may include: basic mechanisms for single-event effects and total dose, test strategies, and mitigation techniques, and analysis of circuits and systems.
• Be familiar with RHA processes for avionics, including defining mission and environmental factors, developing requirements, performing radiation testing, and evaluating mitigation strategies.
• Assess electronic parts, circuits, and systems to evaluate radiation risks, mitigation effectiveness, and ability to meet performance and reliability requirements.
• 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.
• 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.

• Excellent communication and organizational skills with the ability to work on multidisciplinary NASA spaceflight hardware teams.
• Experience with test hardware such as oscilloscopes, multi-meters, logic analyzers, function generators, electronic load banks, power supplies, power analyzers, etc.
• Project experience designing, building, testing, and troubleshooting embedded systems, power electronics, battery systems, and other electrical hardware.
• Familiarity with systems engineering and integration (S&EI) and/or specialty engineering for NASA spaceflight (or similar complexity).
• Analyze and interpret complex avionics design products including schematics, block diagrams, component specifications, parts lists, fault tree analysis, etc.
• Experience with gaining technical insights from stakeholder meetings to generate risk assessments and models for systems/subsystems.
• Proficiency with MBSE tools--Magic Draw,…