Head, Spacecraft Production Test Engineering

Telemetry Today LLC; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Unlimited sick time

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space in San Jose, CA seeks a Sr. Manager of Production Test Engineering to lead the Production Test Engineering organization and scale test capabilities for high-rate spacecraft production.

This onsite role requires building scalable teams and processes, partnering with AIT, Systems Engineering, Mission Engineering, Flight Software, Manufacturing, Quality, and customers to translate requirements into robust production test workflows.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
• 8+ years experience in spacecraft/aerospace/defense 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, TVAC, thermal cycling or EMI/EMC.
• Ability to scale test processes, infrastructure and teams for high-rate production.
• Strong technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop Spacecraft Test Engineers and Environmental Test Engineers.
• Own the spacecraft production test strategy, procedures, scripts, configurations, limits and acceptance criteria.
• Define whether tests should be at spacecraft, module or component level.
• Own traceability between test requirements and production procedures.
• Lead spacecraft integrated testing and transition tests to production processes.
• Lead environmental test engineering for vibration, TVAC, thermal, EMI/EMC, and related testing.
• Plan payload integration test planning with customers and Mission Systems Engineering.
• Coordinate with Flight Software for test features and interfaces.
• Define requirements for testbeds, EGSE, test racks, instrumentation, and production infrastructure.
• Establish test capacity and roadmaps aligned to production volume and throughput.

Skills

Spacecraft test engineering

Technical leadership

Test infrastructure scaling

Cross-functional collaboration

Automation scripting

Python

LabVIEW

C/C++

AS9100 knowledge

Production test strategy

Tools

EGSE

Test racks

Automated test systems

Hardware-in-the-loop

Job description

Muon Space in San Jose, CA seeks a Sr. Manager of Production Test Engineering to lead the Production Test Engineering organization and scale test capabilities for high-rate spacecraft production.

This onsite role requires building scalable teams and processes, partnering with AIT, Systems Engineering, Mission Engineering, Flight Software, Manufacturing, Quality, and customers to translate requirements into robust production test workflows.