# Senior Avionics Test Engineer

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. 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. Responsibilities 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). Partn

- **Id**: 3767491
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/muon-space-senior-avionics-test-engineer>
- **Role**: Aerospace
- **Role family**: Aerospace
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T16:59:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T09:51:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6308
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Retirement plans, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Manufacturing, Earth Observation, Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 4799
- **Name**: Muon Space
- **Domain**: muonspace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/muon-space>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.526
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 52
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 184000
- **Max**: 208000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 208000

## Technologies

- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **OrCAD** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T20:31:44Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 52
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 208000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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