Senior Systems Engineer, EO/IR Payloads

🕒 August 25

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $138k - $195k / 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

• Serve as a core technical member of the Mission Innovation team, conceptualizing, analyzing, demonstrating, and experimenting with new EO/IR payload concepts and related technologies • Develop system and payload requirements, build advanced simulations and models, and perform detailed technical analysis for early-stage payload concepts and use cases • Identify and enable novel imaging modes and new operational use cases • Drive and support early-stage R&D activities and proposals as Principal Investigator • Partner with Product and Applied Science to translate early-stage ideas into feasible technical architectures and demonstrations • Evaluate technical trades, radiometric models, and system budgets for unconventional applications • Perform feasibility studies, literature reviews, and trade studies for early-stage mission, instrument, and data concepts • Support customer discovery, capability demonstrations, and proposal generation • Create technical proposals, white papers, and concept studies articulating Muon’s offerings and mission utility and driving R&D roadmaps

🎯 Requirements

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in an engineering field, Physics, Optical Sciences, or equivalent experience • 5+ years of experience working as a systems or instrument engineer, with deep technical knowledge in the EO/IR payload engineering domain • Background in infrared, multispectral, hyperspectral, or similar remote sensing phenomenologies • Experience in EO/IR and related space missions across government and commercial markets • Demonstrated capability in traditional systems engineering including requirements development, simulation/modeling, and detailed technical analysis • Software skills in one or more languages, e.g. Python, Julia, MATLAB, for modeling, simulation, and data analysis • Ability to obtain TS/SCI security clearance required; active clearance strongly preferred • Ability to travel 25–30% • Familiarity with early-stage business development, strategic capture, and customer discovery • Experience developing radiometric models and/or scene simulations • Experience working hands-on with rapid prototyping, experimental payloads, or capability demonstrations • Familiarity with space systems development, especially small satellite remote sensing system architectures • Excellent communication, presentation, and organization skills • Strong collaborative skills for working across engineering, satellite operations, mission architecture, and business development • Must satisfy applicable U.S. Government export-control eligibility requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity compensation • 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