jobs in San_Jose,_CA

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Microwave Instrument Systems Engineer to support the development of new microwave instruments for Muon's growing satellite fleet. This is a foundational position on a new team where you will be responsible for the development of microwave instruments for remote sensing applications. A key element of this role will be taking existing instrument implementations and making them compatible with Muon hardware and effective to produce at scale. Prior experience and a deep

Full-time

USD 184,000.00 - 234,000.00 per year

Hardware Test Engineer II, Testbeds & EGSE

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Hardware Test Engineer to join our Testbeds & EGSE team - the group that builds the Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) testbeds behind every Muon mission and the electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) used to interface with our satellites during assembly, integration, and test. In this role you'll lead the design of our future testbed infrastructure and next generation of EGSE, while staying hands-on in the build and bring-up of the testbeds our missions depend on today

Full-time

USD 157,000.00 - 182,000.00 per year

Mechanical Engineer II, Solar & Deployables

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Mechanical Engineer to design and build hardware for our new Solar & Deployables group - the team responsible for the solar arrays and deployable systems that power our spacecraft. Working alongside the group's senior and staff engineers, you'll take real ownership of components and assemblies: designing them, releasing them, prototyping them, and proving them out in test. This is a hands-on design role with a fast build-test-learn loop. You'll see your hardware go

Full-time

USD 144,000.00 - 177,000.00 per year

Thermal Engineer II

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon Space is hiring a Thermal Engineer II to own the thermal design and analysis of spacecraft assemblies and subsystems - from hand calcs and models through TVAC test support. You'll work independently within your scope and partner across mechanical, electrical, and systems teams. This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week. Responsibilities Build and run thermal models (Thermal Desktop or similar): TVAC margin, conduction

Full-time

USD 144,000.00 - 177,000.00 per year

Senior Thermal Engineer

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon Space is hiring a Senior Thermal Engineer to own instrument-level thermal engineering across missions (SBEM, Quickbeam, Hydrosat) - models, hardware, and verification end-to-end - while contributing to spacecraft-level thermal balance. You'll be a recognized technical voice who works across disciplines to land elegant, well-balanced designs. This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week. Responsibilities Own instrument th

Full-time

USD 183,000.00 - 198,000.00 per year

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Solar & Deployables

San Jose, California

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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. Design and analysis go hand-in-hand in this role: the engineer who designs the har

Full-time

USD 183,000.00 - 198,000.00 per year

Staff Spacecraft Platform Engineer

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon Space is hiring a Staff Spacecraft Platform Engineer to be a senior technical owner of our spacecraft bus - the reusable architecture behind every Muon mission. You'll own platform-level architecture and requirements, drive trades across mechanical, electrical, solar/power, thermal, and avionics, and keep the platform scaling cleanly as the mission portfolio grows. This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week. Responsib

Full-time

USD 202,000.00 - 223,000.00 per year

FPGA RF Signal Processing Engineer

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon Space seeks a talented FPGA Engineer with RF processing Expertise to join our High Performance Compute (HPC) team. In this role, you will implement HDL/RTL for digital signal processing of RF systems on FPGAs, and design and optimize these algorithms. You'll work at the intersection of RF theory, algorithm development, software defined radio (SDR), and high performance digital FPGA design to deliver high-performance wireless communication and RF sensing products. If you thri

Full-time

USD 173,000.00 - 196,000.00 per year

Engineering Manager, Mission Electrical

San Jose, California

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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. The work is closer to application engineering than new-product development: design work

Full-time

USD 186,000.00 - 202,000.00 per year

Engineering Manager, Avionics

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the team that designs the core avionics at the heart of every Muon spacecraft - flight computers, power systems and batteries, ADCS controller, and related electronics. Unlike our mission-facing teams, this team is design-focused: architecting, designing, qualifying, and evolving the avionics products that are reused across our satellite platforms and missions. This is a hands-on management role for a leader with an extensive electrical

Full-time

USD 186,000.00 - 202,000.00 per year

Engineering Manager, Mission Mechanical

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team of mechanical engineers who tailor Muon's spacecraft platforms to specific missions. Starting from our common platform building blocks, this team designs payload accommodations and mission-specific components, and carries each spacecraft's mechanical build through integration and environmental test. This is a hands-on role, split roughly evenly between management and individual contribution: you'll manage and develop your team whi

Full-time

USD 186,000.00 - 202,000.00 per year

Engineering Manager, Compute Components

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon Space is hiring an Engineering Manager (Manager or Senior Manager level, based on experience) to lead our Compute Components team as part of the High Performance Compute (HPC) team: the engineers building the FPGA and GPU compute blocks that power Muon spacecrafts. This is a people-management role, focused on the "how": how the team delivers, how it grows, and how its engineers stay focused, supported, and successful. You'll partner with the Staff Architect and the Platform

Full-time

USD 210,000.00 - 234,000.00 per year

Mechanical Engineer II, Spacecraft Structures & Missions

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Mechanical Engineer to join our Spacecraft Structures & Missions team - the group that tailors Muon's spacecraft platforms to specific customer missions. In this role you'll own the mechanical execution of a mission end-to-end: starting from our platform building blocks, designing payload accommodations and mission-specific components, and carrying the spacecraft through integration, environmental test, and delivery to the launch vehicle. You'll work alongside the t

Full-time

USD 144,000.00 - 177,000.00 per year

Platform Engineer, Onboard Compute

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon Space is looking for a Platform Engineer to own the shared technical foundation of our High Performance Compute (HPC) team. This is an engineering-track, individual-contributor role. You'll own the build flows, test environments, and delivery pipelines that turn FPGA and GPU engineering output into flight-ready artifacts, and the planning and reporting rhythm that keeps the team predictable across a growing portfolio of missions. As Muon takes on more missions with more var

Full-time

USD 156,000.00 - 186,000.00 per year

Senior Photovoltaics / Solar Array Engineer - Solar & Deployables

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Senior Photovoltaics / Solar Array Engineer to own the design, qualification, and sustainment of the photovoltaic systems that power our spacecraft - solar cell selection and test, encapsulation and lamination, array electrical architecture, and array-level performance prediction. This role owns the array from cell coupon through qualified flight hardware, optimizing total system efficiency across mass, power, and cost. You'll be a foundational member of our new Sol

Full-time

USD 183,000.00 - 198,000.00 per year

Senior Mechanical Engineer - Spacecraft Components and Systems

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer to serve as a hardware expert in component design. You'll own the mechanical direction of the component from requirements definition to installation on the launch vehicle. This will include direct collaboration with Muon's engineering teams to understand requirements, execute designs, deliver robust hardware, pulling in relevant stakeholders (such as structural, thermal, electrical, etc) at the appropriate times to deliver a satellite on-ti

Full-time

USD 183,000.00 - 198,000.00 per year

Verification & Qualification Engineer - Solar & Deployables

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Verification & Qualification Engineer to own requirements, verification, and qualification for the mission-critical solar and deployable systems that power our spacecraft - solar arrays, solar array drive assemblies (SADA), hold-down and release mechanisms (HDRMs), hinges, dampers, and latches. As we develop these mechanisms in-house, this role ensures traceability from requirements definition through qualified flight hardware. You'll be the connective tissue of a n

Full-time

USD 183,000.00 - 198,000.00 per year

Software Engineer, Customer Solutions

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Software Engineer, Customer Solutions to join our Software team. This engineer will help Muon's customers integrate their payloads and software before launch, guiding them through the software development kit, payload accommodation guide and best practices for deploying their instruments in a constellation of spacecraft. You will serve as a technical expert and guide for the customer throughout the early phases of their mission, ensuring that they can test their cod

Full-time

USD 156,000.00 - 186,000.00 per year

Software Engineer, IR Data Products

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon Space is building a family of infrared imaging missions designed for global wildfire detection and monitoring, weather and cloud characterization, space-based environmental monitoring, and more. Muon's IR Data Products team builds the analytics system that turns raw imagery from our spacecraft's custom multispectral instruments into calibrated, orthorectified, analysis-ready products - and delivers them fast enough to be useful while a fire is still burning. In this role yo

Full-time

USD 156,000.00 - 186,000.00 per year

Staff Mechanical Engineer - Solar Mechanisms & Deployables

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Staff Mechanisms Design Engineer to own the design, qualification, and sustainment of the deployable and actuated mechanical systems that power our spacecraft: solar array deployables, solar array drive assemblies (SADA), hold-down and release mechanisms (HDRMs), hinges, dampers, and latches. These are mission-critical, single-point-failure systems, and this role owns them from requirements definition through qualification and on-orbit operation. As a foundational me

Full-time

USD 202,000.00 - 223,000.00 per year

jobs in San Jose, CA, USA