Senior Manager, Test Engineering
About the role
Muon is seeking a Sr. Manager of Production Test Engineering to lead our Production Test Engineering organization and scale test capabilities to support increasing spacecraft production. This role manages Spacecraft Test Engineers and Environmental Test Engineers while owning spacecraft test strategy, customer payload integration testing, environmental test engineering, and the infrastructure and processes required for high-rate production.
The ideal candidate combines strong spacecraft test engineering experience with proven technical leadership and the ability to build scalable teams, processes, and test infrastructure. You will work closely with AIT, Systems Engineering, Mission Engineering, Flight Software, Manufacturing, Quality, and customers to translate spacecraft and mission requirements into robust, repeatable, and production-ready test processes.
This position is fully onsite and requires working in our San Jose, CA office five days a week.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop Spacecraft Test Engineers and Environmental Test Engineers.
- Own the spacecraft production test strategy, including test requirements, procedures, scripts, configurations, limits, and acceptance criteria.
- Define which requirements and tests should be perfor
