Muon Space

Mechanical Engineer

• Own optomechanical design efforts including concept development, trade studies, and preliminary sizing of hardware at various levels of assembly (component to system).
• Own subsystem and system-level analyses including STOP analysis, tolerance stackups, and alignment planning.
• Support Design for Manufacturing/Assembly (DFM/DFA) efforts to drive continuous improvement and volume production.
• Support optical instrument assembly, integration, and test (AI&T) planning and implementation, including collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Support subsystem and instrument-level testing, including environmental (vibration, thermal-vacuum (TVAC) testing) and system characterization/V&V.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of best practices, processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in instrument development.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with subsystem engineers and analysts, instrument and spacecraft systems engineers, AI&T and production teams, program managers, external partner teams, and other stakeholders.

Senior Optomechanical Engineer

Systems Engineer

• Lead instrument architecture trades, define concept of operations, own radiometric model and throughput budget, drive requirements decomposition/flowdown and verification and validation (V&V) planning
• Develop and manage technical budgets, including mass, power, thermal, line-of-sight pointing/jitter, and data volume, to ensure adequate margins throughout development
• Develop comprehensive interface control documents (ICDs) across mechanical, thermal, electrical, and software interfaces, to drive a modular instrument architecture
• Support optical instrument assembly, integration, and test (AI&T) planning and implementation, including collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Champion the continuous improvement of systems engineering methodologies, tools, and best practices to enhance overall efficiency in instrument development
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with subsystem engineers and analysts, instrument and spacecraft systems engineers, AI&T and production teams, program managers, external partner teams, and other stakeholders
• This position participates in a 24/7 on-call rotation to support on-orbit anomaly resolution. The on-call rotation is approximately one week per month.

Senior Instrument Systems Engineer

Technical Recruiter

• Own full-cycle recruiting for aerospace and technical roles, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, and closing top talent.
• Partner closely with hiring managers and leadership to define role requirements and develop hiring strategies.
• Proactively identify and engage high-caliber candidates through creative sourcing strategies including cold outreach, networking, referrals, and industry engagement.
• Conduct candidate screenings and interviews, partnering with interview teams to effectively evaluate technical and cultural fit.
• Guide hiring managers through the recruiting process, providing recommendations and insights for efficient hiring decisions.
• Coordinate and manage interview processes for an exceptional candidate experience.

Senior Technical Recruiter

• Design and implement radiometric calibration and image processing of the multispectral infrared imagery from Muon’s FireSat mission.
• Develop then execute the calibration program for the SBEM infrared camera.
• Research and development to improve foundational data calibration and processing.
• Implement and operate production pipelines for calibration and data processing.
• Write production-ready code.
• Work cross functionally within the team and across Muon to design, build, and maintain operational services from Muon’s core remote sensing missions
• Learn new topics as needed (measurement techniques, geospatial data engineering, software engineering, customer domain-specific implications)

Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist, Cal/Val

• Develop imaging products for end-users from Muon's infrared imaging missions, spanning both the FireSat Initial Operating Capability (IOC) and the Space-Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) program
• Research, design, and implement scalable algorithms for image mosaicking, orthorectification, and radiometric normalization of multispectral infrared imagery.
• Product owner for critical customer-facing imagery products in the SBEM and FireSat programs.
• Author and maintain technical and customer-facing design documents for imagery products, ensuring alignment between internal capabilities and external stakeholder requirements.
• Engage with customer technical stakeholders including Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), customer questions, and program meetings
• Write production-ready code that integrates into customer-facing data product pipelines and operational services.
• Ensure the scientific quality, quantitative validation, and integrity of Orthomosaic Tile products across both wildfire and SBEM missions.
• Work cross-functionally with software engineers, calibration scientists, and instrument engineers to design, build, and maintain operational data product services.
• Learn new topics as needed (e.g., sensor geometry and characterization, georeferencing techniques, wildfire and environmental monitoring applications, cloud-native geospatial data engineering).

Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist

Technical Program Manager

• Own the integrated master schedule, cost baseline, and risk register
• Drive the program through preliminary and critical design reviews, sub-scale lab demonstration assembly, environmental test, and final reporting
• Manage the boundary between IR&D-funded and customer funded work
• Serve as the primary day-to-day customer interface
• Author or approve all customer deliverables including status reports
• Manage program subcontracts
• Partner closely with the program Principal Investigator and technical leads
• Own and actively work the program risk register
• Ensure all program execution complies with contracting requirements

Senior Technical Program Manager

• Serve as the ultimate technical authority for your designated mission, leading the conceptualization, design, and development of the mission.
• Lead the tailoring and implementation of the Muon mission design process for your designated mission, ensuring alignment with program needs, while contributing to process refinement across all missions.
• Own the translation of customer objectives and stakeholder needs into clear, verifiable, and actionable technical requirements for your designated mission.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for your designated mission, interfacing with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders on all technical matters.
• Manage requirements traceability, verification, and validation
• Define mission CONOPS and manage subsystem budgets (e.g., power, data, mass, pointing/stability).
• Identify and mitigate internal and external mission risks, communicating 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 deep collaboration with and provide technical direction to systems, hardware, software, data, ground segment, and operations teams for your designated mission, and support these interactions across other missions.
• Effectively serve as the Mission Lead Systems Engineer for one mission while contributing general systems engineering expertise and support to other Muon missions, potentially deputizing for other Mission Lead Systems Engineers as needed.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in mission development and operations.

Senior Mission Lead Systems Engineer

• Enable the Muon Mission Foundry by driving processes and architectural decisions that allow Muon to scale spacecraft production and mission operations reliably and repeatably, moving beyond legacy quality assurance paradigms.
• Partner with Mission Systems Engineers to own and track V&V compliance, verification progress, and test coverage campaigns.
• Streamline AI&T workflows by identifying V&V bottlenecks and championing pragmatic Test Like You Fly (TLYF) standards.
• Analyze on-orbit telemetry and platform operations to squeeze maximum utility and capacity out of deployed assets
• Drive predictable outcomes by ensuring on-orbit performance closely matches pre-flight models, understanding and proving the accuracy of the specifications we sell to customers.
• Actively close the loop by feeding on-orbit performance data back into the early-phase design of the next platform iteration.
• A tactical focus on increasing autonomy and resilience of our platforms, driving efforts that maximize customer uptime while minimizing the number of operators
• Act as a key technical stakeholder supporting product roadmaps for internal tooling (e.g., MuSim, power analysis, data throughput), and utilizing your own software skills to build upon and extend baseline code, ensuring the tools enable the scaling of the Foundry.
• Business-Driven "Right-Sizing": Make pragmatic decisions that balance engineering pain points against direct business outcomes, prioritizing work that moves the needle on revenue over simply policing internal processes.

Systems Engineer, Mission Success – Performance

Attorney

• Manage the day-to-day lifecycle of both commercial and government contracts
• Produce and review NDAs, Teaming Agreements, Subcontracts, and Vendor Agreements
• Spot deviations from playbook positions and escalate risks to senior contracts counsel
• Partner with Growth through the pre-award lifecycle; support bid capture and proposal preparation
• Manage post-award execution and serve as day-to-day point of contact with customers
• Own Muon's profiles, representations and certifications in SAM.gov, PIEE, WAWF
• Anchor day-to-day department operations and track deadlines
• Refine Muon's CLM workflows to shorten cycle times
• Advise on contracting terms, process and timelines

Contracts Manager, Legal Operations Manager

Engineer

• Design and implement attitude control architectures and algorithms in an embedded C++ environment
• Define requirements for ACS algorithms, hardware, and related systems, including roadmap development that unlocks new customer opportunities
• Perform analysis and simulation of mission-specific performance
• Support performance trending and anomaly resolution of on-orbit systems, including oncall duties
• Support software- and hardware-in-the-loop test planning, execution, and validation