Harness Design Intern (Summer 2027)
Muon Space
$40 / hour
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Description
About the role
Muon seeks a Harness Design Intern to join our electrical engineering team. The ideal candidate is someone who has gained familiarity with harnessing through student clubs or internships and has some programming background. The goal is to advance your harness design skills during the internship and then use those skills to build really cool tools. Is there a way we can build an AI agent to review our harness drawings and make sure we don’t make basic errors? Is there a way we can create a harnessing agent to interact with the API of our programs and design harnesses? These are the types of questions we want you to answer during your internship!
Responsibilities
- Work on new tooling and improve the workflows associated with harness design
- Experiment with AI to update and modify drawings
- Create harness drawings, BOMs and maintain system diagrams
- Specify connector and crimp part numbers in accordance with system design
- Gather feedback from AIT, EE and Mechanical for initial designs and improvements
- Work with electrical engineering to ensure compliance with signal integrity, grounding, and shielding requirements
- Release documentation into PLM with ECO/DCO
- Define electrical test criteria (e.g., continuity, insulation resistance, hipot) for flight and test harnesses. Support or oversee test execution and documentation
Qualifications
- Attention to detail, strong reading comprehension and a desire for ownership
- Familiarity with creating harness drawings in any software
- Ability to use the linux terminal, basic git tools, LLMs with MCPs, python programming
- Ability to build harnesses from scratch - not required daily but helps inform strip lengths, crimper positioners and settings, splicing techniques, heatshrink selection, torque values etc.
- Excited to work in a fast-paced environment with new challenges each week
Nice-to-have Skills
- Previous internship or co-op experience
- Previous experience on student teams (i.e. Rocketry club, formula SAE, solar car, etc.)
- Experience designing harnesses with high reliability requirements
- Experience with RF cable build and characterization
- Experience building agents and using AI to complete engineering tasks
Pay range
Bachelor's $40/hour
Master's $45/hour
PhD $50/hour
About Muon Space
Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.
Taking Care of Our Team
At Muon salary is only part of our total compensation package. In addition to salary, full-time employees receive equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short & long term disability and life insurance. We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.
Our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too. Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application! In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.
Muon is currently registered and able to hire in the following states:
AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IA, ID, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA
ITAR/EAR Requirements
This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.
Benefits
- health insurance
- vision insurance
- 401(k)
- stock options
- parental leave
- life insurance
About this role
Muon Space's harness design internship blends traditional electrical engineering work with emerging AI tooling—you'll create drawings, BOMs, and system diagrams while also experimenting with AI agents to automate and improve the design process itself. The role sits at the intersection of hands-on hardware and software; you might spend time specifying connectors and overseeing harness tests one week, then exploring how an LLM could catch common drawing errors the next. This is genuinely exploratory work, not rote tasks.
You'll need solid fundamentals: experience creating harness drawings in any CAD tool, comfort with Linux and Python, and ideally some exposure to building actual harnesses (whether in a student club, prior internship, or personal projects). Familiarity with LLMs and basic git is expected. The role demands attention to detail and ownership—you'll gather feedback from multiple teams, ensure compliance with electrical standards, and push documentation through their PLM system.
This internship suits someone who wants to deepen harness design skills while learning how to apply AI to engineering problems, and who thrives in a fast-paced aerospace environment where requirements shift week to week. The position is remote from San Jose and pays $40/hour for bachelor's-level candidates.
How this employer is doing
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