Southwest Research Institute - Fulltime
LEAD ENGINEER - SR. RESEARCH ENGINEER - Electronics Radiation Hardening Engineer - Oklahoma City, OK
Warr Acres, Oklahoma County · Senior
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AvionicsSystems EngineeringElectrical EngineeringPower ElectronicsResearchMentoring
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About the role
- Evaluate electronic hardware, circuit card assemblies, LRUs, cables, enclosures, and shielding concepts for radiation hardness, survivability, and integration risks.
- Provide mentoring, technical guidance, and subject matter expertise to engineering teams supporting bomber, missile, strategic deterrence, and classified aerospace programs.
Responsibilities
- Develop, review, and maintain nuclear hardening requirements, design criteria, verification plans, and technical roadmaps for aerospace electronic systems.
- Lead technical reviews with systems, electrical, mechanical, test, cyber, and program teams to assess hardening approaches and resolve design or verification issues.
- Support trade studies, test planning, analysis reviews, and customer briefings related to nuclear effects, shielding, component selection, and mission survivability.
- The Nuclear Systems Engineering Section in the Strategic Aerospace Department provides an array of engineering support for several US Air Force Global Strike Command and Department of Defense programs.
- Lead nuclear hardening engineering efforts for aerospace electronics by developing requirements, roadmaps, design guidance, and verification strategies for mission-critical systems.
- Support nuclear systems engineering activities by translating threat environments, survivability needs, and platform requirements into practical hardening solutions.
- Perform technical reviews of electronic designs, shielding strategies, component selections, layouts, and test approaches to identify radiation hardness risks and design gaps.
- Support strategic aerospace programs involving B-52, B-1, B-2, ICBM, and related DoD platforms by providing senior-level hardening expertise and technical leadership.
Requirements
- Requires a Bachelors or a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Physics Electronics Nuclear Engineering or related engineering discipline with senior-level radiation hardening experience.
- 5+ years: Demonstrated experience supporting B-52, B-1, B-2, ICBM, or other strategic DoD platforms involving nuclear effects, hardening, survivability, or mission assurance.
- 5+ years: Ability to present to upper management direction on nuclear efforts.
- A valid/clear driver's license is required.
Nice to have
- Radiation/EMP Hardening Training and/or certifications preferred.
Company info
- We provide engineering services to projects involving the design, development and maintenance of hardware and software systems for the strategic aerospace community, including aircraft and ground support equipment ranging from microcircuits to major subsystems.
- Objectives of this Role: Lead nuclear hardening engineering efforts for aerospace electronics by developing requirements, roadmaps, design guidance, and verification strategies for mission-critical systems.
- Define and mature radiation hardening approaches for avionics, electronic assemblies, LRUs, SRUs, sensors, processors, power systems, and mission hardware.
- Daily and Monthly
- Daily and Monthly Responsibilities: Develop, review, and maintain nuclear hardening requirements, design criteria, verification plans, and technical roadmaps for aerospace electronic systems.
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