Muon Space
Verification & Qualification Engineer - Solar & Deployables
About this role
Muon Space seeks a Verification & Qualification Engineer to own requirements management, test planning, and execution for flight-critical solar arrays and deployable mechanisms. You'll establish traceability matrices, execute environmental qualification campaigns, and embed verification rigor into a new hardware development group, requiring three days/week onsite in San Jose.
What you'll do
- Capture, flow down, and maintain requirements and verification traceability matrices (RVTM) for solar and deployable systems
- Develop qualification, acceptance, and protoqualification test plans aligned with NASA-STD-5017 and GEVS standards
- Plan and execute test campaigns including vibration, thermal vacuum, thermal cycling, shock, and mechanism life testing
- Identify verification risks and long-lead test facility/instrumentation needs; drive resolution
- Manage test data reduction, reporting, and qualification data packages; handle nonconformances and root-cause closure
- Contribute to FMECA and single-point-failure analysis; represent verification in design reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR, MRR)
What they're looking for
- Requirements management and traceability (RVTM, design controls, DHF)
- Environmental test planning and execution (vibration, TVAC, thermal, shock, deployment)
- Qualification and acceptance test methodology
- Test procedures, fixtures, instrumentation, and data capture
- Technical documentation and reporting
- Systems-level thinking and cross-functional coordination
- FMECA and reliability analysis
- Space environmental standards (NASA-STD-5017, GEVS, ECSS, MIL-STD-810/1540)
Benefits
- Competitive equity grant
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Hybrid work arrangement (3 days/week onsite in San Jose)
- Opportunity to establish verification processes for new hardware group
- Hands-on involvement in mission-critical spacecraft systems
- Fast-paced startup environment in aerospace/space industry
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Muon Space
Muon Space builds satellites and infrared remote sensing instruments for Earth observation and geospatial data collection. The company is hiring systems engineers, flight software engineers, optical engineers, and software engineers to develop spacecraft, embedded satellite systems, and internal operational software.
- Website
- muonspace.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a requirements verification matrix you've built: how did you ensure traceability and completeness from system level to component level?
- Describe a qualification test campaign you planned and executed. How did you determine test levels, margins, and success criteria?