Muon Space
Senior Mechanical Engineer
$173K–$193K
San Jose, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
San Jose, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years designing, building, and testing high-reliability hardware.
- Education
- B.S. or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. person, eligible to access export-controlled 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
Owns spacecraft mechanical subsystem design from requirements and concept through flight build, integration, test, and on-orbit verification.
What you'll do
- Set design and analysis approaches, make engineering trade-offs, and lead design reviews.
- Drive hardware integration, testing, and troubleshooting; coordinate with adjacent engineering disciplines.
- Review designs, mentor engineers, and influence team standards and best practices.
What they ask for
- B.S. or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
- Proficiency in CAD for medium-to-large assembly design and management; SolidWorks preferred.
- Mastery of drawings, GD&T, BOMs, FAIs, tolerance budgets, and mass budgets; experience with ECO/DCO processes and PLM systems.
- Demonstrated proficiency leading mechanical design for complex electromechanical systems, plus experience managing external vendors.
Nice to have
- Deep design experience in spacecraft structures and mission integration, deployables and solar arrays, or precision mechanisms.
- Experience owning a subsystem across its full lifecycle, including flight heritage or on-orbit hardware.
Pay
USD $173,000 - $193,000 base salary
Tools
CAD, SolidWorks, ECO/DCO, PLM systems, GD&T, BOMs, FAIs
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