Muon Space
Staff Spacecraft Platform Engineer
$202K–$223K
San Jose, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
San Jose, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years in spacecraft or complex-system engineering.
- Education
- B.S. or higher in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, or a related engineering field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires eligibility to access export-controlled information as a U.S. person, without required export authorization, or through eligibility and reasonable likelihood of obtaining required export authorization. The company may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.
About the job
Own and evolve Muon Space’s reusable spacecraft bus architecture, coordinating cross-disciplinary engineering to support reliable, scalable missions.
What you'll do
- Own platform architecture, requirements, and their evolution across missions; drive system trades and requirements flow-down.
- Lead cross-subsystem design reviews and resolve interfaces while advancing reuse, modularity, and standardization.
- Partner across teams, mentor engineers, and help grow the platform team.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in spacecraft or complex-system engineering, including system- or platform-level ownership.
- Broad knowledge of spacecraft subsystems and deep expertise in at least one; experience delivering subsystems from requirements through qualification, V&V, and launch or flight operations.
- Track record leading system trades and requirements across multiple programs or product generations; strong systems-engineering fundamentals, including budgets, interfaces/ICDs, and V&V.
- Strong technical leadership and cross-functional communication; B.S. or higher in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, or a related engineering field.
Nice to have
- Flight heritage with successful on-orbit platforms; experience with LEO smallsat / ESPA-class platforms.
- Experience defining a reusable product platform at a scaling space company.
Pay
$202,000 - $223,000 USD base salary
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