Senior Systems Engineer – Mission Lead

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September 25

🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $196k - $228k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Muon Space

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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.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🚀 Aerospace

🔬 Science

💰 $25M Series A on 2022-08

📋 Description

• Serve as the ultimate technical authority for your designated mission, leading the conceptualization, design, and development of the mission and driving cross-functional technical trades and decisions. • Lead the tailoring and implementation of the Muon mission design process for your designated mission and contribute to process refinement across missions. • Translate customer objectives and stakeholder needs into clear, verifiable, and actionable technical requirements and ICDs. • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for your designated mission, interfacing with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders. • Manage requirements traceability, verification, and validation. • Define mission CONOPS and manage subsystem budgets (power, data, mass, pointing/stability). • Identify and mitigate mission risks and communicate impacts effectively. • Assess and coordinate design changes across disciplines throughout the program lifecycle. • Lead design, test readiness, and flight readiness reviews. • Monitor on-orbit spacecraft and data pipelines to ensure mission success and that customer requirements are met. • Foster collaboration and provide technical direction to systems, hardware, software, data, ground segment, and operations teams; support other missions as needed. • Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies.

🎯 Requirements

• M.S. or higher degree in an engineering field and 10+ years of experience in mission architecture and/or spacecraft design, with a focus on high-rigor development for government and/or demanding commercial space systems. • Demonstrated experience as a technical lead (e.g., Chief Engineer, Lead Systems Engineer) on at least one major space program for a USG, DoD, or IC customer. • Experience with USG/IC acquisition programs, standards for space systems development, and mission assurance standards • A strong understanding of USG/IC contracts and their artifacts • Experience directly interfacing with and managing expectations for external customers • Proven history of system integration and delivery of complex systems • Experience in formal requirements management requirements for a multi-disciplinary project • Demonstrated project management skills and ability to collaborate with other engineering disciplines • Excellent communication, presentation, and coordination skills • Ability to rapidly change roles/responsibilities while working in a high-paced, rewarding work environment • Experience supporting proposal development (e.g., RFI/RFP responses) for government contracts (nice-to-have) • Software skills in Python or Julia (nice-to-have) • Remote sensing instrument experience across multiple modalities (e.g. optical, multispectral, RF), and their associated data pipelines (nice-to-have) • Knowledge of industry standards for electrical and/or software quality practices (nice-to-have) • Familiarity with software engineering tools and processes (version control, code review) (nice-to-have) • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance (nice-to-have) • ITAR/EAR requirement: Applicant must be a U.S. person or eligible to access export controlled information or reasonably likely to obtain required export authorization

🏖️ Benefits

• equity compensation • medical insurance • dental insurance • vision insurance • 401k retirement plan • short & long term disability • life insurance • three weeks paid vacation for new employees • 12 paid holidays • unlimited sick time • paid parental leave