Muon Space
Senior Manager, Hardware Reliability & Test
$209K–$233K
San Jose, CA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
San Jose, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years in hardware test, qualification, or reliability engineering, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
- Education
- B.S. in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be a U.S. person, eligible to access export-controlled information without export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required authorization. The company may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.
About the job
Leads Muon Space’s Hardware Reliability & Test organization, overseeing spacecraft and subsystem qualification, reliability analysis, test frameworks, and shared testing resources.
What you'll do
- Build and lead teams across Reliability & Qualification, Spacecraft Acceptance Test & Test Framework Engineering, and Test Support Resources.
- Own qualification approaches, quantitative reliability models, test frameworks, standards, databases, and shared spacecraft-level tests.
- Partner with engineering and business development teams to demonstrate customer requirements are met and communicate reliability posture and test status.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience qualifying complex hardware for spaceflight or similarly demanding environments, including thermal, vacuum, vibration, and EMI/EMC.
- B.S. in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years in hardware test, qualification, or reliability engineering, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
- Experience defining processes and driving consistency across engineering teams; working knowledge of reliability analysis methods and familiarity with software-driven test frameworks and automated test infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree or experience in engineering, reliability, or a related field; experience establishing teams, processes, or test capabilities.
- Experience with spacecraft environmental test standards, test data pipelines or results databases at scale, or industry reliability standards.
Pay
USD 209,000 - USD 233,000 base salary
Tools
FMEA, NASA GEVS, SMC-S-016, MIL-HDBK-217, ECSS, ISO 26262, AEC-Q
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