jobs in santa clara, ca, us

Senior Director, EO/IR Instrument Engineering

Mountain View, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Senior Director of EO/IR Instrument Engineering to lead the strategy, development, and delivery of our electro-optical and infrared instrument portfolio, from system architecture through on-orbit calibration. In this role, you will build, mentor, and guide a multidisciplinary engineering organization that is roughly doubling in size, while establishing the technical direction and operational rigor needed to scale across a growing portfolio of flight programs. As a se

Full-time

USD 256,000.00 - 293,000.00 per year

RF Test Engineer II, Testbeds & EGSE

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks an RF 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. Th

Full-time

USD 168,000.00 - 186,000.00 per year

Senior Manager, Test Engineering

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon is seeking a Sr. Manager of Production Test Engineering to lead our Production Test Engineering organization and scale test capabilities to support increasing spacecraft production. This role manages Spacecraft Test Engineers and Environmental Test Engineers while owning spacecraft test strategy, customer payload integration testing, environmental test engineering, and the infrastructure and processes required for high-rate production. The ideal candidate combines strong sp

Full-time

USD 207,000.00 - 230,000.00 per year

Senior Software Engineer, Information Systems

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join our Information Systems team. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated and versatile software engineer with a strong desire to develop mission-critical internal software and platforms with the primary goal to reduce manual and repetitive tasks. The Information Systems team owns the comprehensive suite of custom software, vendor software, data platforms and automated tools that will enable various teams to work more rapidly, our factori

Full-time

USD 196,000.00 - 217,000.00 per year

Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Platform and AI Engineering)

Santa Clara, California

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Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks , we're united by a shared mission-to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you're in the right place. Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, w

Full-time

USD 156,400.00 - 253,000.00 per year

Mechanical Engineer

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Mechanical Engineer to design and build hardware for our spacecraft platforms. 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 from CAD to flight, and you'll help carry designs from first prototypes through constellation-quantity

Full-time

USD 153,000.00 - 172,000.00 per year

RF Test Engineer I, Testbeds & EGSE

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks an early-career RF 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. You'll help build and design this infrastructure alongside the team's senior engineers: assembling and bringing up testbeds for each mission, and contributing to the design of ou

Full-time

USD 143,000.00 - 162,000.00 per year

Senior Mechanical Engineer

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer to own the mechanical direction of a spacecraft subsystem or mission from requirements definition to installation on the launch vehicle. The ideal candidate can go deep on design while carrying a "systems mindset" - a force multiplier who collaborates across disciplines to arrive at an elegant, well-balanced design. You'll start from Muon's platform building blocks, tailor and design hardware to meet mission needs, and pull in the right sta

Full-time

USD 173,000.00 - 193,000.00 per year

Senior Optical Test Engineer

Mountain View, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Senior Optical Test Engineer to join our team in Mountain View, CA developing infrared remote sensing instruments. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated engineer with a versatile skill set, comfortable diving into everything from precision optical metrology to rigorous environmental testing. In this role, you will drive the hands-on testing, characterization, and environmental qualification of critical optical, optomechanical, and moving mechanism subsystems. Previ

Full-time

USD 179,000.00 - 230,000.00 per year

Sr NPI Reliability Engineer

Santa Clara, California

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Full-time

USD 108,200.00 - 174,900.00 per year

GNC Hardware Engineer

Mountain View, California

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About the role Muon seeks a talented Spacecraft Attitude Control System (ACS) AKA Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) hardware engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate has experience or is excited to work with attitude sensors and actuators from component sizing analysis through build-vs-buy decisions, integration, testing, and on-orbit support. This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our Mountain View, CA office three days per week. Responsibilities Evaluate GNC senso

Full-time

USD 157,000.00 - 179,000.00 per year

Staff Mechanical Engineer - Spacecraft Components

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Staff Mechanical Engineer to be a technical owner for spacecraft mechanisms and components design; own single-point-failure management (margin, redundancy, test coverage); own component qualification (deployment, life, and environmental testing). The ideal candidate can go deep on design while carrying a "systems mindset" - a force multiplier who collaborates across disciplines to arrive at an elegant, well-balanced design. You'll start from Muon's platform building

Full-time

USD 190,000.00 - 216,000.00 per year

Spacecraft Test Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)

San Jose, California

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About the role Summer internships will range between the months of May and September depending on university schedules. Internship is full-time and on-site in San Jose, California. The Assembly, Integration and Test (AIT) team at Muon is responsible for validation of spacecraft hardware through unit acceptance testing as well as spacecraft level integration testing. As a Test Engineering Intern, you will support the design, setup, and execution of tests for spacecraft subsystems. You will coll

Full-time

USD 40.00 per hour

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 190,000.00 - 212,000.00 per year

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Layer 7 Security

Santa Clara, California

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Full-time

USD 134,600.00 - 217,800.00 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

Senior Mission Lead Systems Engineer, Commercial Payloads

San Jose, California

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About the role Muon seeks a Senior Mission Lead Systems Engineer to join our Mission Engineering team. At Muon, we are developing multiple missions to help understand and act on Earth and climate intelligence. As a Senior Mission Lead Systems Engineer, you will serve as the technical lead for a specific Muon mission, owning the end-to-end technical success from concept through on-orbit operations for our most demanding missions, spanning both government and high-assurance commercial programs. T

Full-time

USD 190,000.00 - 219,000.00 per year

Principal Software Engineer

San Jose, California

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Full-time

USD 156,400.00 - 253,000.00 per year

Thermal Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)

San Jose, California

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About the role Summer internships will range between the months of May and September depending on university schedules. Internship is full-time and on-site in San Jose, CA. The Thermal Engineering team at Muon is responsible for thermal performance and safety of flight hardware across all satellite platforms, including Muon-designed avionics hardware and instruments. Interns are expected to take ownership over thermal efforts ranging from hardware design, test, and analysis. The impact you wil

Full-time

USD 40.00 per hour

Data Infrastructure Operations Manager (Starlink)

Sunnyvale, California

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SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars. DATA INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATIONS MANAGER (STARLINK) The Infrastructure Operations team is responsible for the end-to-end management of suppliers, costs, and delivery of high-quality human-generated data, including annot

Full-time

USD 130,000.00 - 185,000.00 per year

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