Design, build, and operate mission-optimized satellite constellations with Muon Space. Backed by Air Street.
About the role
Muon seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer who pairs strong design skills with a deep analysis background to join our new Solar & Deployables hardware group. You'll design the deployable structures that carry our solar arrays — mission-critical, single-point-failure hardware — and own the structural, dynamic, and thermoelastic analyses that prove those designs will survive launch and perform on orbit.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, and testing high-reliability hardware, including 5+ years of structural analysis
- Proven track record designing precision mechanical or deployable hardware from concept through qualification
- Strong command of structural FEA — static, modal, and random vibration — using FEMAP/NASTRAN, ANSYS, or similar
- Experience analyzing deployment dynamics and mechanism margins (torque/force, kinematics)
- Demonstrated experience correlating analysis models to test data (modal surveys, vibration, deployment)
- Expert-level CAD skills (SolidWorks preferred) with mastery of drawings, GD&T, and tolerance/mass budgets
More about this role
Muon seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer who pairs strong design skills with a deep analysis background to join our new Solar & Deployables hardware group. You'll design the deployable structures that carry our solar arrays — mission-critical, single-point-failure hardware — and own the structural, dynamic, and thermoelastic analyses that prove those designs will survive launch and perform on orbit. Design and analysis go hand-in-hand in this role: the engineer who designs the hardware is the engineer who understands its margins.
As a foundational member of the group, you'll work closely with our mechanisms and photovoltaics leads, partner with Muon's dedicated structural analysis group on the critical interactions between the arrays and the spacecraft bus, and help establish the design and analysis practices that scale from prototype builds through constellation-quantity production.
This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week.
- Design deployable structures and supporting hardware for Muon's solar arrays, from concept and trade studies through detailed design, prototyping, and qualification
- Own the structural, dynamic, and...
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