Principal Radiation Architecture Engineer

About the role

The Contested Environment System Analysis group at Draper is seeking a Principal-level Radiation Architecture Engineer to support cross-functional teams in developing system concepts, architectures, and requirements that support operation in natural and hostile radiation environments.

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.
• Independently drive solutions to complex problems - develop requirements, propose ways forward when customer requirements are unclear or incomplete, and adapt appropriately to changes in requirements.
• Sustained record of successful task leadership.
• Identifies risks and develops and executes mitigation strategies for them.
• Demonstrated ability to lead medium-sized teams (5-10 people).
• Reliably aligns team towards program goals and builds trust within the team.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) able to perform advanced radiation effects analyses.
• Able to provide insight and suggest design modifications based on analysis outcomes, and to apply analysis techniques across a range of technical challenges and disciplines.
• Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies for them.
• Develop, document, and teach best practices to less experienced engineers.
• Demonstrate strong organization, planning, and time management skills to achieve program goals.
• Actively mentors. Recognizes strengths and weaknesses in others and provides thoughtful constructive feedback.
• Performs other related duties as needed.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or other relevant field.
• A Master's degree, or PhD is preferred.
• 7-10 years Radiation Engineering or related experience.

Skills

• 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.