Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer

About the role

The Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer will support the space program located in Houston, Texas (77058). This position supports NASA’s deep‑space missions, working on avionics development and radiation hardness assurance for human space exploration.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Required qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident status.
• Experience in the space industry or Department of Defense/Department of War.
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field.
• Minimum of 1 year of recent, related work experience.
• Technical knowledge of radiation effects in microelectronics and/or avionics systems, including mechanisms for single‑event effects and total dose, test strategies, mitigation techniques, and circuit/system analysis.
• Familiarity with RHA processes for avionics: defining mission and environmental factors, developing requirements, performing radiation testing, and evaluating mitigation strategies.
• Ability to assess electronic parts, circuits, and systems for radiation risks, mitigation effectiveness, and reliability requirements.
• Experience leading or supporting 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 radiation test setups, including cables, laboratory equipment, printed circuit boards, software, firmware, and hardware description languages.

Desired qualifications

• Excellent communication and organizational skills; ability to work on multidisciplinary NASA spaceflight hardware teams.
• Experience with test hardware such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, function generators, electronic load banks, power supplies, and power analyzers.
• 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.
• Ability to analyze and interpret complex avionics design products (schematics, block diagrams, component specifications, parts lists, fault tree analysis, etc.).
• Experience extracting technical insights from stakeholder meetings to generate risk assessments and models for systems/subsystems.
• Proficiency with MBSE tools (MagicDraw, Cameo, etc.) and familiarity with .graphml file formats and network modeling.
• Knowledge of Poisson, Markov, and Gaussian statistical analysis.

Work location and schedule

This position is onsite in Houston, Texas (77058) and follows a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off. Some travel may be required, and schedules are subject to change based on position or customer needs.

Background investigations

All Bastion employees must be able to pass a national agency background check; some positions require security clearance and will undergo an extensive verification process.

Drug and alcohol screening

All Bastion employees must pass a pre‑employment drug screen and participate in periodic random drug and alcohol screenings.

Standard requirements

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams).
• Team player with strong work ethic and culture‑oriented mindset.
• Effective verbal and written communication with internal and external customers.
• Adherence to company programs, processes, procedures, practices, requirements, goals, and objectives.
• Organized with good time‑management skills; ability to work outside normal schedules to meet peak periods.
• General office environment; may involve standing or sitting for extended periods and occasional lifting of up to 25 lb.
• Regular attendance in accordance with an established work schedule is critical.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, disability, and life insurance.
• Retirement 401(k) plan.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, and flexible work schedules (when available).
• Career advancement through professional training and development.
• Additional employee support programs and options.