The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Senior Radiation Analysis Engineer

Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or relevant field; Master's or PhD preferred.
  • 5-7 years of experience in Radiation Engineering or related fields.
  • Hands-on experience with radiation effects on materials and electronics.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Support engineering decisions based on radiation effects on system performance.
  • Design and verify systems against multiple radiation effects like TID and SEE.
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to maintain radiation hardening throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Propose solutions to complex problems and adapt to program changes.
  • Lead small teams and align them towards program goals.
  • Provide design insights and analysis across technical challenges.
  • Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies.

Benefits

  • Work-life balance initiatives including workplace flexibility.
  • Access to health and finance workshops.
  • Opportunities to join employee clubs for recreational activities.
  • Participation in off-site social events.
  • Discounts to local museums and cultural activities.
Full Job Description

Job Description Summary:

The Contested Environment System Analysis group is seeking a Senior-level Radiation Analysis Engineer to support cross-disciplinary teams to solve complex system architecture, requirements, and analysis challenges driven by radiation environments.

Candidates should have hands-on experience with radiation effects on materials and electronics and be able to translate those effects into practical implications for system design. The candidate will be expected to work effectively in a team environment, mentor junior engineers, and communicate progress and results through published reports and presentations.

This role requires at least 60% time on-site in either Cambridge, MA or Clearfield, UT.

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities
• Support engineering decisions based on radiation effects on overall system performance.
• Design harden and verify the performance of systems across multiple radiation effects, including dose rate, total ionizing dose (TID), neutron displacement damage (NDD), and single event effects (SEE).
• Support interdisciplinary teams to ensure that radiation hardening is maintained across the product lifecycle.
• Drive solutions to complex problems with limited direction – contribute to task planning and technical development, propose ways forward, and adapt appropriately to changes in program requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to lead small teams (fewer than 5 people). Seeks to align team towards program goals and builds trust within the team.
• Able to provide insight and suggest design modifications based on analysis outcomes, and to apply analysis techniques across a range of technical challenges.
• Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies for them.
• Actively mentor less experienced engineers and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback
• Performs other related duties as needed.

Skills/Abilities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively and openly with multi-disciplinary program team members. program leadership, and non-technical personnel.
• Excellent analytical skills to support modeling and analysis tasks.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, especially with regard to planning critical test and analysis activities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Team player able to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to balance multiple competing tasks and demands.
• Solid understanding of radiation interactions with materials and devices.

Education
Requires a Bachelor's in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or other relevant field. A Master's degree, or PhD is preferred.

Experience
Requires 5-7 years Radiation Engineering or related experience.

Additional Job Description:

Applicants selected for this position must be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

A Current In scope Secret Clearance is Required

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Job Location - City:

Cambridge

Job Location - State:

Massachusetts

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is

$82,300.00 - $220,000.00

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Union ranges will be in compliance with the collective bargaining agreement's approved rates by location and role. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.  Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and does not include bonuses or benefits.

Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned R&D innovation company appeals to you, apply now www.draper.com/careers.

About The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Draper Laboratory is an American non-profit research and development organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; its official name is The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. The laboratory specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, space exploration, health care and energy. The laboratory was founded in 1932 by Charles Stark Draper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop aeronautical instrumentation, and came to be called the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. During this period the laboratory is best known for developing the Apollo Guidance Computer, the first silicon integrated circuit based computer. It was renamed for its founder in 1970, and separated from MIT in 1973 to become an independent, non-profit organization. The expertise of the laboratory staff includes the areas of guidance, navigation, and control technologies and systems; fault-tolerant computing; advanced algorithms and software systems; modeling and simulation; and microelectromechanical systems and multichip module technology.
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