Muon Space
Manufacturing Engineer II, Testbeds & EGSE
$159K–$178K
San Jose, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
San Jose, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- B.S. in an engineering discipline or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. person, eligible to access export-controlled information without export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization. The company may decline to pursue an export licensing process for legitimate business reasons.
About the job
Owns procedures and technical documentation for spacecraft hardware-in-the-loop testbeds and electrical ground support equipment, working alongside engineers and technicians to keep builds repeatable and systems understandable.
What you'll do
- Create, maintain, and release assembly, checkout, maintenance, and work-instruction documentation; update procedures as designs change.
- Maintain the team knowledge base, testbed block diagrams, and system documentation across missions.
- Coordinate testbed maintenance communications, support technicians on the floor, and relay buildability improvements to design engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in manufacturing, test, or hardware engineering, with significant ownership of procedures, work instructions, or engineering documentation.
- Electrical engineering or embedded software background and ability to read schematics, block diagrams, and software-driven test flows.
- Strong technical writing, hands-on hardware fluency, and experience administering documentation, PLM, or knowledge-base tools.
- B.S. in an engineering discipline or equivalent hands-on experience.
Nice to have
- Experience in HITL, test lab, or production test environments; or standing up documentation systems from scratch.
- Familiarity with Confluence, Duro, Python or similar, aerospace or other high-reliability industries, or Linux.
Pay
$159,000 - $178,000 USD base salary
Tools
HITL, EGSE, Confluence, Duro, Python, Linux
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