Verification & Qualification Engineer - Solar & Deployables

About the role Muon seeks a Verification & Qualification Engineer to own requirements, verification, and qualification for the mission-critical solar and deployable systems that power our spacecraft — solar arrays, solar array drive assemblies (SADA), hold-down and release mechanisms (HDRMs), hinges, dampers, and latches. As we develop these mechanisms in-house, this role ensures traceability from requirements definition through qualified flight hardware. You'll be the connective tissue of a new hardware group's product development process: flowing down requirements, maintaining the verification matrix, planning qualification campaigns ahead of need, and hands-on executing tests alongside the design engineers — helping establish a lightweight-but-rigorous verification framework. This is a strong fit for engineers from structured product-development backgrounds, including medical device (design controls, DHF, IQ/OQ/PQ), who want to apply that rigor to spaceflight hardware. Due to the hands-on nature of this role, it requires onsite work at our San Jose three days a week. Responsibilities Capture, flow down, and manage requirements for solar and deployable systems from mission level to component level; build and maintain the requirements verification and traceability matrix (RVTM) Partner with design engineers to ensure requirements are complete, verifiable, and testable before design maturity gates Develop qualification, acceptance, and protoqualification test plans well ahead of hardware availability, defining test levels, margins, and success criteria per applicable standards (e.g., NASA-STD-5017, GEVS) Identify verification risks and long-lead test needs — fixtures, facilities, instrumentation — early, and drive them to resolution Coordinate and hands-on execute test campaigns across internal and external facilities: vibration, TVAC, thermal cycling, shock, deployment with gravity offload, and mechanism life testing Own test data capture, reduction, and reporting; author qualification and acceptance data packages Manage nonconformances and anomalies during test, driving closure with root cause and corrective action Contribute to FMECA and single-point-failure analysis to ensure test coverage addresses credible failure modes Help establish the group's structured product development process — design reviews, verification gates, documentation standards — and represent verification in design reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR, MRR) Required Qualifications 5+ years of experience developing, building, or testing complex, high-reliability hardware, including 3+ years in requirements management, verification, or qualification Demonstrated experience with requirements traceability and structured verification (RVTM or equivalent, e.g., design controls / DHF in medical device) Experience planning and/or executing qualification, acceptance, or environmental test campaigns Strong understanding of verification methods — test, analysis, inspection, demonstration — and how to select and defend them Hands-on test experience: procedures, fixtures, instrumentation, data capture, and reporting Excellent written documentation skills: test plans, procedures, reports, and traceability records Strong systems-level thinking and attention to detail, with the discipline to maintain rigor under schedule pressure Excellent communication and cross-functional coordination skills B.S. or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Biomedical, Aerospace Engineering, or related field Nice-to-have Skills Space industry experience with flight hardware qualification (mechanisms, arrays, or structures) Familiarity with space environmental test standards (NASA-STD-5017, GEVS, ECSS, MIL-STD-810/1540) Medical device or other regulated-industry background (design controls, ISO 13485/14971, IQ/OQ/PQ) applied to hardware development Experience with requirements management tools (DOORS, Jama, or similar) Experience with reliability engineering, FMECA, or single-point-failure analy…