Design, build, and operate mission-optimized satellite constellations with Muon Space. Backed by Air Street.
About the role
This is a hands-on role, split roughly evenly between management and individual contribution: you'll manage and develop your team while staying technically engaged — contributing designs, running design reviews, unblocking the team, and setting the quality bar. The role reports to the Senior Manager of Spacecraft Structures & Missions. This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of experience designing complex, integrated systems that operate in harsh environments (spacecraft, aviation, automotive, robotics, or similar)
- 2+ years managing or technically leading engineering teams
- Track record of delivering hardware products to the field
- Ability to move fluidly between hands-on engineering and team leadership in a fast-paced environment
- Proficiency in CAD for medium-to-large assembly design and management (SolidWorks preferred)
- Mastery of drawings, GD&T, BOMs, FAIs, tolerance budgets, and mass budgets, diligence with ECO/DCO processes
More about this role
This is a hands-on role, split roughly evenly between management and individual contribution: you'll manage and develop your team while staying technically engaged — contributing designs, running design reviews, unblocking the team, and setting the quality bar. The role reports to the Senior Manager 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 mechanical engineers customizing Muon's spacecraft platforms for specific missions; plan resourcing across concurrent missions and hire as the team scales
- Invest in developing early-career engineers through coaching, design feedback, and growth planning
- Own the mechanical deliverables for assigned missions — from requirements through design, build, integration, and environmental test — ensuring on-time, high-reliability delivery
- Stay hands-on: contribute designs, drawings, and analyses alongside the team, setting the standard you expect
- Work with mission formulation and systems teams to translate customer needs into robust flight hardware, reusing common platform components where possible and developing new...
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