Muon Space
Platform Engineer, Onboard Compute
$190K–$212K
San Jose, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
San Jose, California, United States - Experience
- 3+ years of professional engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. person, eligible to access export-controlled information without required 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
Owns the shared platform, build and test environments, delivery pipelines, and planning and reporting processes that turn FPGA and GPU engineering work into flight-ready artifacts across missions.
What you'll do
- Maintain FPGA and GPU build flows, toolchain environments, test environments, and integration and delivery pipelines.
- Manage the team roadmap, estimation and planning metrics, Jira reporting, and weekly status reports.
- Maintain team documentation and support onboarding and training materials.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, plus 3+ years of professional engineering experience.
- Hands-on FPGA and/or GPU workflow experience, including relevant toolchains, simulation or profiling environments, and build/release pipelines.
- Experience owning or significantly contributing to build systems, test environments, and integration pipelines for embedded or hardware-adjacent codebases.
- Fluency with Jira and Confluence, plus scripting, planning, estimation, and stakeholder communication skills.
Nice to have
- Prior platform, engineering productivity, developer experience, DevOps, or build/release role supporting an FPGA, embedded, or GPU team.
- Experience with Vivado, Quartus, GPU cross-compilation for embedded platforms, hardware-in-the-loop test automation, or mission-critical engineering environments.
Pay
$190,000 - $212,000 USD base salary
Tools
FPGA, GPU, Jira, Confluence, Vivado, Quartus, NVIDIA Jetson/IGX-class
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