Avionics Engineering Lead Space Hardware

Muon Space; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Three weeks paid vacation

12 paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the avionics design team responsible for flight computers, power systems, ADCS controllers, and related electronics across Muon spacecraft. This hands-on leadership role combines architecture, reviews, and mentoring while driving standardization and reuse.

The position is hybrid and on-site in San Jose, CA three days per week, with a focus on growing a high-reliability avionics organization and delivering scalable hardware solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing complex, high-reliability electronics for harsh environments (spacecraft, aviation, automotive, robotics).
• 2+ years managing or technically leading engineering teams.
• Extensive hands-on electrical design: architecture, schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up.
• Deep understanding across avionics domains: embedded processing, power conversion and distribution, battery systems, control electronics.
• Experience taking boards from concept through qualification and production.
• Strong hardware/software integration: microcontrollers and interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet).
• Excellent leadership, communication, and presentation skills; able to move between team leadership and hands-on engineering.
• B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow the avionics design team along with planning resourcing across concurrent development efforts and hire as the team scales.
• Own delivery of Muon's core avionics - flight computers, power systems and batteries, ADCS controllers, and related electronics - from architecture through design, qualification, and production support.
• Drive the avionics roadmap: improve performance, reliability, cost, and manufacturability, and maximize standardization and reuse across satellite platforms.
• Stay hands-on: contribute to architecture definition, review schematics and layouts, and support bring-up and debug alongside the team.
• Set and uphold electrical design standards - design reviews, derating and worst-case analysis, documentation, and ECO/DCO discipline.
• Own avionics qualification and test strategies, partnering with Hardware Reliability & Test to ensure consistent qualification across products.
• Partner with embedded software, mechanical, thermal, systems, and production teams to ensure successful hardware/software integration and manufacturability.
• Invest in developing engineers through coaching, design feedback, and growth planning.

Skills

Electrical design

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Embedded processing

Team leadership

HW/SW integration

Power systems

Avionics knowledge

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

B.S. in Computer Engineering

Tools

ECAD tools

FPGA/SoC

Embedded Linux

Python (test automation)

Job description

Muon Space seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the avionics design team responsible for flight computers, power systems, ADCS controllers, and related electronics across Muon spacecraft. This hands-on leadership role combines architecture, reviews, and mentoring while driving standardization and reuse.

The position is hybrid and on-site in San Jose, CA three days per week, with a focus on growing a high-reliability avionics organization and delivering scalable hardware solutions.