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Engineering Manager, Mission Electrical

Muonspace · San Jose, CA · On-site

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About Muonspace

Design, build, and operate mission-optimized satellite constellations with Muon Space. Backed by Air Street.

About the role

Muon seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team of electrical engineers who tailor Muon's spacecraft platforms to specific missions. This team owns all electrical customization a mission requires. This includes adapting our flight-proven avionics, power, and payload-interface hardware to mission requirements. As a result this team and role is more customer facing than other engineering roles.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience designing, integrating, or testing complex electrical systems that operate in harsh environments (spacecraft, aviation, automotive, robotics, or similar)
  • 2+ years managing or technically leading engineering teams
  • Strong ability to read, understand, and debug electrical designs
  • Solid understanding of spacecraft or complex-system electronics: avionics, power distribution, harnessing, and hardware/software integration
  • Experience with electrical harness design, documentation, and integration
  • Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design tools (e.g., Altium, Cadence/OrCAD) and standard lab equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies)
More about this role

Muon seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team of electrical engineers who tailor Muon's spacecraft platforms to specific missions. This team owns all electrical customization a mission requires. This includes adapting our flight-proven avionics, power, and payload-interface hardware to mission requirements. As a result this team and role is more customer facing than other engineering roles. The work is closer to application engineering than new-product development: design work is focused and targeted, and the ability to deeply understand and debug existing designs is essential. This is a hands-on management role weighted toward leadership. You'll spend most of your time managing and developing your team, while staying technically engaged - reviewing designs, debugging hardware, and unblocking the team. The role reports to the Senior Director of Spacecraft Structures & Missions.

This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week.

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of electrical engineers customizing Muon's spacecraft platforms for specific missions; plan resourcing across concurrent missions and hire as the team scales
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