Jobs at Muon Space

Provides first-line IT support by responding to help desk tickets, setting up and deploying laptops, accounts, and peripherals, troubleshooting hardware and software issues, maintaining inventory and documentation, and escalating complex problems. The intern works full-time onsite, develops IT and customer-service skills, and receives mentorship from senior IT staff.

Lead development and operation of Muon's flight dynamics system across orbit determination, maneuver planning, stationkeeping, collision avoidance, and maneuver reconstruction. Own architecture, implementation, validation, deployment, and anomaly response while supporting spacecraft propulsion operations. Improve orbit-determination methods, represent flight dynamics in technical reviews, collaborate with vendors and cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers.

Lead the hardware reliability function for satellite constellations by developing quantitative reliability models, standardizing FMEA/FMECA and fault-tree practices, guiding testing and qualification, analyzing on-orbit data, and embedding reliability into hardware design reviews. The role also communicates reliability assessments to leadership and customers, supports proposals, mentors engineers, and builds processes across hardware teams.

Design, develop, integrate, and test flight and embedded software for satellites using ARM Cortex-M and RTOS/bare-metal environments. Implement drivers, platform and application code, integrate hardware, participate in architecture decisions, and support on-orbit operations and testing.

Drives cross-functional planning and execution for software programs from concept through launch. Responsibilities include defining roadmaps, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, resource plans, release readiness, and communication across software, hardware, science, and product teams. The role also improves development processes, coordinates issue resolution, and provides leadership reporting in a hybrid San Jose environment.

Leads the software test infrastructure team, managing engineers who develop testing and reporting tools for cloud services, data analysis, embedded firmware, and flight-software testing. Responsibilities include team development, roadmap planning, project execution, quality metrics, organizational processes, staffing, hiring, and performance management. The role collaborates with engineering leaders and customers to build reliable testing capabilities for ground and space systems.

Develop high-performance C++ and GPU-accelerated implementations for image-processing pipelines, including bundle adjustment, orthorectification, image I/O, and reprojection. Integrate components with Python, optimize latency and throughput, benchmark reference algorithms, and collaborate with HPC specialists. Own verification, validation, CI performance regression testing, technical designs, trade studies, and interface documentation. The role is hybrid in San Jose and supports mission-critical ground and flight systems.

Design, train, evaluate, and deploy computer vision and machine learning models for ground and onboard flight systems. Build the image and ML data engineering foundation, optimize models for low-latency cloud and edge execution, develop benchmark implementations, and support cloud serving integration. Own verification, validation, unit testing, integration testing, and performance regression testing while collaborating with mission and payload teams.

Leads the Simulation Infrastructure team, managing software engineers, scientists, and data analysts who develop physics-based spacecraft simulations and analytics. Responsibilities include setting technical roadmaps, delivering foundational projects, tracking system performance, improving organizational processes, managing staffing and capacity, and overseeing hiring, coaching, and performance development. The role collaborates across engineering and business functions from proposal development through on-orbit mission analysis.

Leads the design, development, integration, debugging, and operation of hardware-in-the-loop testbeds and electrical ground support equipment for satellite missions. Responsibilities include translating flight hardware designs into testbed systems, creating architecture and interface documentation, building and bringing up hardware, troubleshooting hardware-software interfaces, coordinating inventory and infrastructure support, and guiding junior engineers and technicians.

Lead architecture and development of Python-based hardware test frameworks, instrument drivers, test result databases, and UIs. Integrate frameworks with CI/CD and hardware-in-the-loop systems, build shared spacecraft-level tests, partner with subsystem teams for adoption, and mentor engineers to ensure code quality across hardware test software.

Leads end-to-end earth observation programs for U.S. Government customers, owning cost, schedule, technical baselines, risks, milestones, contract deliverables, and customer relationships. The role directs cross-functional aerospace teams across systems engineering, payloads, flight software, ground processing, and mission operations through design, integration, launch, and on-orbit operations. It also manages government compliance, export controls, technical exchanges, readiness reviews, and follow-on business growth.

Own spacecraft structural analysis across the full hardware lifecycle, including finite element modeling, static and dynamic analyses, test planning, model correlation, coupled loads, and post-test data reduction. The role supports opto-mechanical payloads, supplier interactions, risk and cost tradeoffs, engineering standards, and validation activities. It also requires mentoring, occasional on-site travel for environmental testing, and collaboration in a fast-paced hybrid startup environment.

Build and support simulation services, integrate physical models into products, develop automated and off-nominal test scenarios, and improve simulation tools through stakeholder feedback. The role contributes to architecture, technical proposals, planning, cross-functional delivery, and mentoring engineers. Strong Python and C++ experience is required, with preferred experience in numerical simulation, statistical analysis, Julia, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud deployment, Software-in-the-Loop simulation, and CI/CD.

Own mechanical architecture, design, documentation, qualification, and environmental testing for spacecraft components and mechanisms across multiple missions. Lead requirements, sizing, design reviews, vendor development, launch-vehicle integration, and configuration-controlled engineering releases. Make make-versus-buy decisions, define scalable standards, collaborate across structural, thermal, electrical, and systems teams, engage customers and launch providers, and mentor engineers. The role requires onsite work in San Jose three days weekly and expertise in high-reliability electromechanical hardware.

Lead the end-to-end technical execution of complex spacecraft missions from concept through on-orbit operations. Translate customer needs into requirements, manage traceability and verification, define mission concepts and subsystem budgets, lead design and readiness reviews, coordinate cross-functional engineering teams, mitigate risks, and monitor mission performance. Serve as the primary technical interface for customers and stakeholders while improving systems engineering processes and supporting other missions.

Designs, operates, and secures on-premises and cloud network architectures across Cisco Meraki, Cloudflare, AWS, and GCP. Responsibilities include network segmentation, firewalls, VPNs, zero-trust access, security monitoring, incident response, and protection of CUI, EAR, and ITAR-controlled data. The role partners with IT, security, and engineering teams to meet compliance and business requirements.

Owns organization-wide authentication and authorization across SaaS applications, cloud platforms, on-premises infrastructure, and endpoints. Architects and evolves Okta, designs least-privilege access models, builds access request and review workflows, and enforces protections for CUI, EAR, and ITAR data. Administers identity integrations across Okta, Active Directory, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, AWS, GCP, and Azure while partnering with IT, Security, and business teams on compliance and operational requirements.

Owns environmental, health, and safety operations across multiple Bay Area facilities. Responsibilities include developing safety and emergency plans, managing hazardous materials and waste programs, maintaining regulatory accounts and EPA credentials, conducting inspections and risk assessments, investigating incidents, overseeing contractor safety, and delivering employee training. The role requires autonomous project ownership, regulatory expertise, strong communication, and full-time on-site availability.

Develop and support customer payload software integrations for spacecraft missions. Guide external partners through SDKs, interfaces, simulations, testing, commanding, telemetry, payload management, fault recovery, and data downlink. Lead technical exchanges, design reviews, and integration campaigns while serving as the software point of contact. Maintain developer documentation and sample applications, collaborate with flight and systems engineering, and track integration metrics, OKRs, roadmaps, and delivery risks.