Manufacturing Engineer II, Testbeds & EGSE

About the role

Muon seeks a Manufacturing Engineer to join our Testbeds & EGSE team — the group that builds the Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) testbeds behind every Muon mission and the electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) used to interface with our satellites during assembly, integration, and test. As this infrastructure scales across more missions, its repeatability lives or dies on documentation — and this role owns it: the procedures that make builds repeatable, and the knowledge base that makes the whole system understandable.

You'll bring an electrical or embedded software background strong enough to understand the systems you document — reading schematics and block diagrams, and following software-driven test flows. You'll stay close to the hardware: shadowing engineering builds, assisting on the floor, and iterating procedures side-by-side with the technicians who run them.

Due to the hands-on nature of this role, it requires onsite work at our San Jose location 5x days a week.

Responsibilities

• Own the team's procedure and work-instruction system, including templates, standards, and the release process
• Write new assembly, checkout, and maintenance procedures for testbeds and EGSE — shadowing engineering builds to capture steps at the source
• Keep existing procedures current as designs evolve, driving redlines and updates to closure
• Own the team's internal knowledge base: structure it, maintain it, and keep it authoritative
• Maintain testbed block diagrams and system documentation as configurations change across missions
• Own HITL maintenance communications: announcements, downtime coordination, and status updates to the teams that depend on testbed availability
• Assist and iterate on procedures with technicians on the floor until they're proven, and train the team on documentation standards
• Identify process and buildability improvements from build feedback, and channel design-for-assembly input back to the design engineers

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing, test, or hardware engineering, with significant ownership of procedures, work instructions, or engineering documentation
• Electrical engineering or embedded software background, with the ability to read schematics, block diagrams, and software-driven test flows
• Excellent technical writing skills: clear, precise, and usable by someone other than the author
• Hands-on hardware fluency: comfortable at a bench with assemblies, harnesses, and basic test equipment
• Systematic and organized, with experience administering documentation, PLM, or knowledge-base tools
• Excellent communication and cross-functional coordination skills
• B.S. in an engineering discipline or equivalent hands-on experience

Nice-to-have Skills

• Experience in HITL, test lab, or production test environments
• Experience standing up documentation systems or templates from scratch
• Familiarity with knowledge-base and PLM platforms (e.g., Confluence, Duro, or similar)
• Scripting skills (Python or similar) for documentation automation or diagram generation
• Aerospace or other high-reliability industry experience
• Familiar with a Linux development environment

Salary

The salary range for this role is $157,000 - $182,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process. 

About Muon Space

Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.

Taking Care of Our Team

At Muon salary is only part of our total compensation package. In addition to salary, full-time employees receive equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short & long term disability and life insurance. We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.

Our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too.  Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application! In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

ITAR/EAR Requirements

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.