Harness Design Intern (Summer 2027)

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

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.