Senior Electrical Testbed Technician - HITL/EGSE

Muon Space; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Muon Space is seeking a Technician for our Testbeds & EGSE team in San Jose. You will build and maintain HITL testbeds and EGSE, assemble racks and harnesses, and collaborate with software and hardware teams to keep critical infrastructure running.

The role requires meticulous hands-on work, strong documentation, and ability to work from drawings with engineers. Onsite commitment 5 days/week in San Jose is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience assembling and maintaining electrical or electromechanical hardware.
• Harness fabrication: connectorization, pinning, crimping, and continuity testing.
• Experience with PCBA assembly and rework (surface mount and through-hole).
• Competence with basic electrical test tools (multimeter at minimum) for troubleshooting.
• Comfort in a Linux heavy development environment.
• Ability to read drawings, schematics, and block diagrams with minimal supervision.
• Self-sufficient when documentation is thin; seek information and ask engineers.
• Careful documentation habits and organized lab/inventory management.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift.

Responsibilities

• Assemble HITL testbed hardware: racks, avionics modules, wiring from drawings and direction.
• Assemble and maintain spacecraft test equipment (EGSE) used to power, command, and monitor satellites during integration and test.
• Fabricate, modify, and repair cable harnesses, including connectorization, pinning, and continuity checkout.
• Perform PCBA assembly and rework (SMT and through-hole).
• Maintain testbed infrastructure and support resources—power, network, and lab equipment—and respond quickly when systems go down.
• Troubleshoot electrical issues with standard test tools alongside engineers.
• Perform light mechanical fabrication: drilling, rack fit-up, torquing fasteners.
• Track testbed and EGSE inventory, and document builds, changes, and repairs with logs and procedure redlines.

Skills

Hands-on hardware

Harness fabrication

PCBA assembly and rework

Electrical test tools

Linux environment

Reading drawings/schematics

Documentation

Communication and teamwork

Adaptability in fast-paced env

Tools

Multimeter

Oscilloscope

Soldering (SMT + through-hole)

Cable harness tooling

Job description

Muon Space is seeking a Technician for our Testbeds & EGSE team in San Jose. You will build and maintain HITL testbeds and EGSE, assemble racks and harnesses, and collaborate with software and hardware teams to keep critical infrastructure running.

The role requires meticulous hands-on work, strong documentation, and ability to work from drawings with engineers. Onsite commitment 5 days/week in San Jose is expected.