Muon Space
Senior Mission Lead Systems Engineer, Commercial Payloads
$190K–$219K
San Jose, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years; technical lead experience on at least one complex system design.
- Education
- B.S. or higher degree in an engineering field.
- Visa sponsorship
- 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 the end-to-end technical design, delivery, and on-orbit performance of a designated spacecraft mission, coordinating customers and cross-functional engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Lead mission conceptualization, design decisions, requirements, and mission engineering processes.
- Act as the mission’s primary technical contact; manage requirements, budgets, risks, design changes, and readiness reviews.
- Monitor on-orbit spacecraft and data pipelines and coordinate teams to meet customer requirements.
What they ask for
- B.S. or higher degree in an engineering field.
- 10+ years of experience in complex systems, mission architecture, and/or spacecraft design, focused on high-rigor development for government and/or demanding commercial customers.
- Technical lead experience on at least one complex system design for a USG, DoD, IC, and/or commercial customer.
- Experience with external customers, system modeling and analysis, system integration and delivery, and formal requirements management.
Nice to have
- Experience with major space programs, space systems development or mission assurance standards, GNC, or AI&T.
- Software skills in Python or Julia; remote sensing instrument and data pipeline experience.
Pay
$190,000 - $219,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Julia, Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC), Assembly, Integration, & Test (AI&T)
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