# Senior Mechanical Engineer, Solar & Deployables at Muonspace

- Company: Muonspace
- What the company does: Design, build, and operate mission-optimized satellite constellations with Muon Space. Backed by Air Street.
- Company website: https://muonspace.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $173K to $193K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/muonspace/jobs/5215804007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/muonspace-senior-mechanical-engineer-solar-and-deployables/

## 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

Tags: Engineering - Hardware