Radiation & Reliability Team Manager

Job Summary
In this unique role you both manage a small team and serve as its technical authority.

You will serve as Millennium's technical authority for spacecraft electronics radiation susceptibility and overall reliability, guiding the development of highly reliable, multi-year space systems. Combine your deep technical expertise with leadership—mentoring engineers, establishing reliability processes and tools, and driving technical decisions that impact product, vehicle, and mission success. You will collaborate across design, manufacturing, systems, and mission assurance disciplines to ensure spacecraft meet reliability, availability, and maintainability goals.

As the Radiation and Reliability Team Manager, you will lead your team, serve as a point of contact for technical, budget and resource allocation issues to meet team members' needs, customer requirements, and company goals.

This position's internal job code is Systems Engineering Manager. Our team is currently hiring for level K.

Responsibilities
You are responsible for managing staffing of the team, developing internal team processes, providing staff to support program enabling radiation testing. You and your team develop and maintain the SV Radiation and Reliability strategy for our various SV buses, products and individual components. Your team coordinates closely with products designers to continually evolve and maintain a parts library with Rad & Rel specifications and strategy suitable for various missions, both repeating and forward leaning.

• Establish and own the radiation/reliability engineering processes and provide cross-discipline training to instill a culture of survivability-awareness.
• Lead efforts to increase probability of mission success through reliable part selection, circuit design, passive/active radiation mitigations and mission design recommendations.

• Support future business by contributing to proposal writing, requirements development, schedule baselines, customer briefings, and design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) with credible radiation analyses.

• Develop TID, SEE and DDD models for any orbital regime using industry standard tools and best practices.

• Budget, schedule, plan, and execute radiation test campaigns at external facilities (protons, heavy ions, gamma, neutron) or through third-party partners.

• Provide unit and mission level radiation analyses including SEE rates, availability estimates, lifetime TID and DDD exposures and the associated artifacts for requirements verification and to inform and/or match mission risk posture.

• Maintain and grow the parts library databases with critical piece-part information and make it accessible to those that need it.
• Track Earned Value (EV) and providing accurate status on project schedule and budget
• Demonstrate technical excellence to junior radiation engineers through artifact reviews, mentorship and open communication.
• Stay abreast of new industry standards, methodologies, and trends to continuously evolve the team's capabilities.
• Mentor, train, motivate, and develop Rad&Rel staff
  • Motivate and advocate for the team
  • Meet with team members individually and together weekly, listening and flowing out corporate information
  • Help to resolve problematic situations or employees, elevating to Director and/or HR as required
• Manage Rad&Rel team and staff including personnel reviews, tasking, and work scope
  • Coordinate with other Team Leads weekly
  • Ensure processes, practices, and standards are adopted and any changes documented
  • Conduct new hire reviews and semi-annual performance reviews
  • Recommend promotions and annual raises
• Other job duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Nuclear Engineering, or related field

• 5–10 years of experience in radiation effects and/or reliability engineering for aerospace systems

• At least 2 years as a Responsible Engineering Authority, Project Lead, Control Account Manager, or equivalent

• Experience growing, leading and managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

• Expertise with radiation tools such as AE9/AP9/SPM, CREME96, OMERE, SPENVIS for environments modeling and radiation effects estimates.

• Familiarity with radiation standards such as MIL-STD-750, MIL-STD-883, ECSS-Q-ST-60-15C and NASA testing guidelines.

• Extensive experience budgeting, schedule and executing SEE, TID and DDD test campaigns.

• Proficiency with data analysis and modeling software (Python, MATLAB, or equivalent).

• Familiarity with circuit simulation tools, such as LTSpice.

• Strong lab experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, source meters, power supplies, and automating data collection.

• Methodical design, testing, and troubleshooting capabilities
• Must be versatile and able to perform and manage multiple tasks concurrently

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey reliability and radiation risks to diverse stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in aerospace-related radiation engineering roles

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Reliability Engineering, or related field.
• Active U.S. Government security clearance
• Hands-on experience with scripting or automation (Python, MATLAB, JMP, etc.).
• Previous startup or small-team experience with demonstrated ability to establish processes and thrive in ambiguity.
• Familiarity with Radiation Hardness by Design principles.
• Familiarity with radiation transport and shielding analysis tools (NOVICE, FASTRAD, GEANT4).
• Familiarity with space charging effects on materials and electronics.
• Customer-facing experience presenting radiation/reliability assessments at design reviews.
• Experience with anomaly resolution and documentation of anomaly reports and lessons learned databases
• Experience with engineering risk management, engineering configuration, and change management

• Ability to explain the above concepts to a lay-person, strong communication and presentation skills, ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment

• Ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance

Please note that the salary information shown below is a general guideline only of what is reasonably expected to be paid for the position. Salaries are based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary Pay-Range

• Level K: $147,050 - $216,250