Principal Mission Architect

🕒 May 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170k - $243k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Muon Space

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🚀 Aerospace

🔬 Science

💰 $25M Series A on 2022-08

Aerospace • Science • Environment

Muon Space is a company that designs, builds, and operates low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations optimized for Earth intelligence missions. They provide integrated technology solutions through their innovative Muon Halo technology stack, which enables rapid deployment and superior performance of satellite constellations. Muon Space offers a three-phase approach to satellite constellation development, focusing on mission architecture, hardware and software integration, and efficient operation. Their expertise in aerospace engineering and Earth intelligence contributes to addressing global challenges such as climate change and resource management. The company collaborates with government and private sectors to deliver advanced geospatial intelligence and weather data solutions.

📋 Description

• Develop a complete mission concept based on customer needs. • Perform mission-level analysis and own all top-level mission budgets. • Requirements definition and design for the mission and a variety of mission payloads. • Leverage software tools and/or writing code to explore engineering trade studies and answer system design questions. • Understand key metrics and spacecraft and payload design trades. • Perform spacecraft performance and constellation configuration evaluation. • Collaborate with other discipline engineers and scientists to ensure the product meets objectives.

🎯 Requirements

• B.S. or higher degree in a related engineering field plus 12 years of experience working with space missions. • Excellent communication, presentation, and coordination skills. • Dedication to drawing conclusions based on the most important factors and data available. • Spacecraft design experience. • Space mission design experience. • Software skills in one or more of Python, Julia, Matlab, C, C++. • Travel to the Mountain View facility to support in-person meetings, build, and test. • Excited to work in a fast-paced environment with new challenges each week. • Active TS/SCI.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401k retirement plan • Short & long term disability • Life insurance • Three weeks paid vacation • 12 paid holidays • Unlimited sick time • Paid parental leave • Equity compensation