Muon Space
Director, Real Estate & Facilities
$216K–$231K
San Jose, CA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
San Jose, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years in facilities engineering, infrastructure, or plant operations, including 5+ years leading and developing teams.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, other technical discipline or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Position requires access to export-controlled information. Applicants must be a U.S. person, eligible to access the information without export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization. The company may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.
About the job
Leads Muon Space’s facilities strategy, organization, budgets, and infrastructure projects to keep spacecraft production and testing running reliably as the company scales.
What you'll do
- Set multi-year facilities and site strategy, including capital planning and infrastructure requirements.
- Build and lead the facilities team and own facility reliability, uptime, maintenance, and performance reporting.
- Oversee budgets, capital projects, vendors, contracts, compliance, and emergency preparedness.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of professional experience in facilities engineering, infrastructure, or plant operations, including 5+ years leading and developing teams.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, other technical discipline or equivalent experience.
- Ownership of large capital expansion projects from business case through commissioning and close-out, with accountability for multi-million dollar budgets and schedules.
- Experience setting infrastructure strategy for a scaling manufacturing organization and communicating tradeoffs to executives; familiarity with MEP and HVAC building systems.
Nice to have
- Direct aerospace manufacturing and environmental test equipment experience; specialty gas and cryogenic systems experience.
- Experience activating new or distributed sites; familiarity with CMMS platforms, building management systems, AutoCAD, Revit, or AS9100.
Pay
$216,000 - $231,000 USD base salary
Tools
MEP, HVAC, CMMS, AutoCAD, Revit, AS9100, CDA, LN2
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