Lead Systems Engineer

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $162k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Muon Space

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

💰 $25M Series A on 2022-08

Manufacturing • Logistics • Consulting

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

• Partner with the Mission Architecture team to develop mission concepts, run architecture trade studies, and shape technical baselines for prospective missions and proposals • Develop and maintain mission-level system models covering architecture, requirements, interfaces, and behavior • Serve as ultimate technical authority for a designated mission and lead conceptualization, design, development, and critical technical trades • Tailor and implement the Muon mission design process • Translate customer objectives and stakeholder needs into clear, verifiable technical requirements • Serve as primary technical point of contact for customers, partners, and internal stakeholders • Manage requirements traceability, verification, and validation • Define mission CONOPS and manage subsystem budgets including power, data, mass, and pointing/stability • Identify and mitigate mission risks and communicate impacts • Assess and coordinate cross-disciplinary design changes throughout the program lifecycle • Lead design, test readiness, and flight readiness reviews • Monitor on-orbit spacecraft and data pipelines to ensure mission success and customer requirements are met • Provide technical direction and foster collaboration across systems, hardware, software, data, ground segment, and operations teams • Serve as Mission Lead Systems Engineer for one mission while supporting other Muon missions • Improve engineering processes, tools, and methodologies for mission development and operations

🎯 Requirements

• B.S. or higher degree in an engineering field • 10+ years of experience in complex systems, mission architecture, and/or spacecraft design • High-rigor development experience for government and/or demanding commercial customers • Experience as a technical lead, such as Chief Engineer or Lead Systems Engineer, on at least one complex system design • Experience with major space programs for USG, DoD, IC, and/or commercial customers • Experience with USG/IC acquisition programs, space systems development standards, and mission assurance standards • Strong understanding of USG/IC contracts and their artifacts • Experience supporting proposal development, including RFI/RFP responses, for government contracts • Extensive experience in system modeling, systems analysis, and simulations • Proven history of system integration and delivery of complex systems • Experience in formal requirements management for a multidisciplinary project • Demonstrated project management skills and ability to collaborate with engineering disciplines • Excellent communication, presentation, and coordination skills • Ability to rapidly change roles and responsibilities in a fast-paced work environment • Active TS/SCI security clearance • Export-controlled information access eligibility under U.S. Government regulations: U.S. person, eligible without export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain authorization

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive equity grant • Equity compensation for full-time employees • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401k retirement plan • Short-term disability insurance • Long-term disability insurance • Life insurance • Three weeks paid vacation for new employees • 12 paid holidays • Unlimited sick time • Paid parental leave