Muon Space
Staff Mechanical Engineer - Solar Mechanisms & Deployables
$190K–$216K
San Jose, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
San Jose, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years designing, building, and testing mechanisms or deployable hardware, including 5+ within the space industry.
- Education
- B.S. in Mechanical 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 authorization. The company may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.
About the job
Owns the design, qualification, and production sustainment of spacecraft deployable and actuated mechanisms, from requirements definition through on-orbit operation.
What you'll do
- Set technical architecture and design direction for deployable mechanisms, and lead design trade-offs and analyses.
- Own single-point-failure management and qualification campaigns, including deployment, lifecycle, and environmental testing.
- Mentor engineers, establish design standards, and drive mechanisms from prototype builds into production.
What they ask for
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical field.
- 10+ years designing, building, and testing mechanisms or deployable hardware, including 5+ within the space industry.
- Deep expertise in one or more listed mechanism areas, such as solar array deployables, SADA, HDRMs/release devices, hinges, dampers, or precision mechanisms.
- Experience qualifying single-point-failure mechanisms; expert-level command of CAD, GD&T, drawings, BOMs, and related budgets.
Nice to have
- Flight heritage or direct SADA design experience.
- Experience with NASA-STD-5017, ECSS, or equivalent standards; organizational engineering standards; or flight-hardware vendors.
Pay
USD 190,000 - 216,000 base salary
Tools
CAD, SolidWorks, GD&T, NASA-STD-5017, ECSS
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