Jobs at Muon Space

Own and advance cybersecurity for satellites, flight software, ground systems, mission networks, communication links, and AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include security architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability management, incident response, IAM, SIEM detection engineering, network defense, cloud security, DLP, security assessments, awareness training, and compliance with CMMC Level 2, NIST 800-171, and ITAR/EAR requirements. The role collaborates with aerospace, software, systems, and compliance teams and requires expertise in mission-system security.

Lead enterprise security risk assessments, maintain the risk register, prioritize and track remediation, evaluate vendor and architectural risks, define risk methodologies, map controls to NIST and CMMC requirements, support audits, report risk metrics to leadership, and promote risk ownership across the organization.

Designs and implements automation for spacecraft and ground station operations, monitors satellite health and telemetry, troubleshoots anomalies, executes operational procedures, coordinates orbit maneuvers, and supports satellite integration. The role collaborates across engineering teams to maintain satellite services and fleet performance.

Lead Muon Space’s microwave aerospace programs, managing multidisciplinary teams, customer and supplier relationships, contractual obligations, budgets, schedules, risks, and technical performance. Develop roadmaps and integrated master schedules, track program metrics, coordinate resources, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery of satellite-based systems. Support proposals, customer engagement, contract growth, and business development while collaborating across engineering, legal, finance, operations, and business teams.

Operate and monitor satellite missions, execute procedures, analyze telemetry, troubleshoot anomalies, implement corrective actions, and coordinate orbit maneuvers. The role also supports satellite integration and designs automation for monitoring spacecraft health and safety. Collaboration with engineering teams is required to maintain satellite services and transition new spacecraft into operational phases.

Leads enterprise software evaluations, SaaS selection, technical trade studies, vendor onboarding, and IT integrations. Manages software licenses, renewals, utilization, costs, and vendor escalations while optimizing procurement and intake processes. Partners with InfoSec, Legal, Procurement, IT, and business stakeholders to ensure security compliance, architectural fit, cost efficiency, and effective tooling adoption.

Leads high-priority technical proposals and capture efforts from opportunity identification through contract award. Coordinates Engineering, Business Development, Program Management, Finance, Contracts, Manufacturing, and executive stakeholders to create compliant, differentiated submissions. Develops win themes, solution strategies, schedules, reviews, competitive analyses, and scalable capture processes. Ensures compliance with U.S. government solicitations, mentors contributors, leads retrospectives, and identifies emerging customer needs and growth opportunities.

Administer multi-state payroll and benefits, ensuring accurate payroll execution, 401(k) remittances, benefits enrollment, compliance, audits, and employee support. Manage state registrations, tax setup, HRIS data integrity, open enrollment, and benefits broker coordination. Provide empathetic guidance on sensitive payroll and benefits matters while optimizing People Operations workflows through automation and accurate documentation.

Own the end-to-end commercial and civil space business development process, including customer discovery, lead generation, opportunity qualification, pipeline management, pricing, market sizing, proposals, and deal closure. Partner with engineering, product, and mission architecture teams to deliver integrated satellite solutions across remote sensing, satcom, and orbital infrastructure markets. Ensure smooth transitions from pre-sales to execution while managing strategic customer relationships.

Leads mission formulation and architecture for international space opportunities. Develops mission concepts, performs mission-level analyses, owns top-level budgets, defines requirements, evaluates spacecraft and constellation configurations, and guides engineering teams through design trade studies. Collaborates with customers, scientists, and engineering disciplines to create practical, cost-effective satellite missions. Requires regular international travel and occasional travel to the Mountain View facility.

Lead mission formulation and architecture for EO/IR and persistent infrared/MW missions. Perform mission-level analyses, define requirements and top-level budgets, design payloads and constellations, run trade studies using software/code, and coordinate with instrument, engineering, and science teams to deliver cost-effective space mission solutions.

Lead mission formulation and architecture: develop mission concepts from customer needs, perform mission-level analyses and top-level budgets, define requirements and design for spacecraft and RF/optical instruments, run engineering trade studies using code/tools, evaluate constellation configurations, and coordinate across disciplines.

Serve as technical lead for a designated space mission across concept, development, verification, and on-orbit operations. Translate customer objectives into requirements and ICDs, manage requirements traceability, subsystem budgets, risk, design changes, and reviews. Coordinate cross-functional teams (systems, hardware, software, data, ground, operations), interface with customers, and improve engineering processes and tools.

Lead first-principles research and prototype development for EO/IR geospatial imagery products. Conduct feasibility studies, analyze pixel-level spectral datasets, build prototype intelligence products, engage customers to derive technical requirements, and collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to transition novel remote sensing concepts into market-ready offerings.

Lead exploration and development of novel EO/IR payload concepts, build simulations and radiometric models, define system requirements, perform feasibility and trade studies, support R&D proposals and demonstrations, and collaborate across product, applied science, mission systems, and business development to translate early-stage ideas into technical architectures and customer-facing capabilities.

Implement and optimize RF DSP algorithms in HDL for real-time FPGA execution, prototype algorithms in Python and port to ARM SoCs, collaborate on instrument bring-up, calibration and system integration with RF hardware teams, author design documentation and test reports, and work in a hybrid Mountain View office.

Manage the lifecycle of commercial and government contracts: review and draft standard agreements, identify and escalate risks, support proposals, track deliverables and CDRLs, maintain government profiles (SAM.gov, PIEE, WAWF), keep audit-ready records, and coordinate with Growth, Mission Engineering, and Supply Chain.