Head of Spacecraft Test & Production Engineering

Muon Space, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Muon Space in San Jose, CA is seeking a Sr. Manager of Production Test Engineering to lead and scale our Production Test Engineering organization for high-rate spacecraft production.

You will manage Spacecraft Test Engineers and Environmental Test Engineers while owning test strategy, payload integration testing, and related infrastructure. The ideal candidate combines spacecraft test engineering excellence with strong leadership to build scalable teams, processes, and test infrastructure,

Qualifications

• 8+ years in spacecraft, aerospace, defense, or complex hardware test engineering.
• 3+ years leading or managing test engineers.
• Experience developing and executing spacecraft or system-level test programs.
• Experience with spacecraft AIT and integrated system testing.
• Experience with environmental testing such as vibration, thermal vacuum, thermal cycling, or EMI/EMC.
• Experience translating system and mission requirements into executable test procedures and acceptance criteria.
• Experience developing testbeds, EGSE, test racks, or automated test systems.
• Demonstrated ability to scale test processes, infrastructure, and teams to support increasing production volume.
• Strong technical leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop Spacecraft Test Engineers and Environmental Test Engineers.
• Own the spacecraft production test strategy, including test requirements, procedures, scripts, configurations, limits, and acceptance criteria.
• Define which requirements and tests should be performed at the spacecraft, module, or component level.
• Own traceability between spacecraft test requirements and production test procedures.
• Lead spacecraft integrated testing and transition new or immature tests into repeatable production processes.
• Lead environmental test engineering for vibration, TVAC, thermal, EMI/EMC, and related testing.
• Lead customer payload integration test planning and execution, translating customer requirements into production test requirements and procedures.
• Partner with customers and Mission Systems Engineering to define payload integration test requirements and capabilities.
• Coordinate with Flight Software to identify required test features, interfaces, and test hooks.
• Define requirements for spacecraft testbeds, EGSE, test racks, instrumentation, and other production test infrastructure.
• Establish test capacity and infrastructure requirements based on production volume, test duration, and throughput targets.
• Develop and execute the roadmap for scaling test engineering capabilities as production increases.
• Standardize and replicate mature test setups, procedures, and processes to support production growth.
• Identify test bottlenecks and drive improvements in test time, throughput, repeatability, and ease of test.
• Partner with Production Test Technicians to transition mature tests into production execution and resolve test-related issues.
• Work cross-functionally with Systems Engineering, Manufacturing, Mission Engineering, Flight Software, Quality, and Production to ensure test readiness.
• Establish test engineering standards, processes, and best practices in partnership with Test & Reliability leadership.
• Develop organizational capacity, technical depth, and cross-training to eliminate single points of failure.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Test engineering

Production scaling

Strategic planning

Communication

Problem solving

Capacity planning

Infrastructure development

Automation

Python

LabVIEW

C/C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Python

LabVIEW

C/C++

Job description

Muon Space in San Jose, CA is seeking a Sr. Manager of Production Test Engineering to lead and scale our Production Test Engineering organization for high-rate spacecraft production.

You will manage Spacecraft Test Engineers and Environmental Test Engineers while owning test strategy, payload integration testing, and related infrastructure. The ideal candidate combines spacecraft test engineering excellence with strong leadership to build scalable teams, processes, and test infrastructure,