Design, build, and operate mission-optimized satellite constellations with Muon Space. Backed by Air Street.
About the role
Muon Space is seeking an experienced and hands-on Senior Avionics Test Engineer to join our team in San Jose, CA. In this role, you will own the architecture, development, and scaling of the test infrastructure that ensures we continue to have zero hardware failures at launch. You will drive the test strategy for satellite avionics, design test racks and and when required custom PCBs or fixtures. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Prefer, but don’t require B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in hardware test engineering, 8+ years of total relevant software/hardware engineering experience
- Strong knowledge of electronic components, circuits, and test equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies)
- Familiarly with schematic capture and PCB layout software (e.g., Altium, Cadence/Orcad)
- Understanding of microcontrollers and common communication interfaces (e.g., UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet)
- Experience with embedded systems, embedded programming concepts and comfortable in a Linux development environment
More about this role
Muon Space is seeking an experienced and hands-on Senior Avionics Test Engineer to join our team in San Jose, CA. In this role, you will own the architecture, development, and scaling of the test infrastructure that ensures we continue to have zero hardware failures at launch. You will drive the test strategy for satellite avionics, design test racks and and when required custom PCBs or fixtures. This is our first electrical test role so you will help define the standards of the team going forward and set the bar for our electrical test infrastructure. You will collaborate with the test and reliability org that maintains the overall software infrastructure and will be part of the electrical engineering team so test development starts with PCBA development.
This position is onsite and requires working in our San Jose, CA office five days per week.
- Work with test and reliability to define a common set of hardware and software to create automated test racks for avionics modules (primarily PCBAs)
- Define the overarching validation strategy, test plans/methodologies for spacecraft avionics (flight computers, power systems, RF/communication payloads).
- Partner with hardware design...
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