Radiation Test Engineer

Intuitive Machines is an innovative and cutting-edge space company making cislunar space accessible to both public and private customers.

Our mission is to further science and exploration, communications, and economic progress from the Earth to the Moon and beyond.

With multiple NASA lunar missions in development and additional private missions on our manifest, we pride ourselves in supporting NASA, our customers, and the nation in paving the way to return humans to the surface of the Moon.

Our world-class team includes experts in all aspects of spacecraft subsystems design, development, and test, on-orbit operations, and safety.

About the Position:

We are seeking a radiation test engineer for the Intuitive Machines NOVA-C / NOVA-D Lunar Lander and Altus Lunar Satellite programs. The role will serve as the technical authority for defining mission-based radiation environments, providing hardware design implementations to handle those environments, establishing test programs to evaluate the hardware solutions, coordinating with test facilities to execute these test programs, and analyzing the test results to quantify the hardware solutions’ ability to meet the mission objectives in the environments.

Your work will have a direct impact on program success, supporting spacecraft builds, payload integration, mission rehearsals, and full end-to-end system tests.

This is a hands on, high ownership role at the center of spacecraft and payload integration.

Reports to Avionics Director.

• Define radiation environments per mission,
• Define tests based on those environments, including these support tasks”
• Create functional block & harness diagrams for the tests
• Design test cables
• Design (Altium) test PCBs
• Perform cross section / probabilistic analyses on test results.
• Develop test plans and test procedures for payload and spacecraft system testing
• Track risks, integration issues, and system limitations; drive mitigation strategies