Avionics Engineering Manager (Hybrid) - Hands-on Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Short & long term disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Unlimited sick time

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a design-focused avionics team responsible for flight computers, power systems, ADCS controllers, and related electronics. You will stay hands-on while guiding architecture, reviews, and qualification across Muon spacecraft platforms.

The role is hybrid in San Jose, requiring on-site presence three days per week. Strong leadership and deep electrical design expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing complex, high-reliability electronics that operate in harsh environments
• 2+ years managing or technically leading engineering teams
• Extensive hands-on electrical design experience: architecture, schematic capture, PCB layout, and board bring-up for complex mixed-signal systems
• Deep understanding across avionics domains: embedded processing, power conversion and distribution, battery systems, and control electronics
• Experience taking boards from concept through qualification and production
• Strong grasp of hardware/software integration: microcontrollers and common interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet)
• Excellent leadership, communication, and presentation skills; ability to move fluidly 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

Team leadership

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Board bring-up

Hardware-software integration

Embedded systems

High-reliability electronics

Education

B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Job description

Muon Space seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a design-focused avionics team responsible for flight computers, power systems, ADCS controllers, and related electronics. You will stay hands-on while guiding architecture, reviews, and qualification across Muon spacecraft platforms.

The role is hybrid in San Jose, requiring on-site presence three days per week. Strong leadership and deep electrical design expertise are essential.