Avionics Engineering Manager - Spaceflight Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Comprehensive benefits

Paid vacation & holidays

Sick time & parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space in San Jose, CA is seeking an Engineering Manager, Avionics to lead the core avionics team—flight computers, power systems, ADCS and related electronics—with a hands-on leadership style. You will drive architecture, review schematics, set design quality, grow the team, and collaborate with software, mechanical, thermal, and production groups to ensure seamless hardware/software integration.

This hybrid role requires onsite presence three days per week in San Jose, offering competitive

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing complex, high-reliability electronics in harsh environments.
• 2+ years leading engineering teams.
• Hands-on electrical design: architecture, schematic capture, PCB layout, and board bring-up.
• Deep understanding across avionics domains: embedded processing, power conversion, batteries, and 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 and grow the avionics design team and plan resourcing across concurrent development efforts.
• Own delivery of Muon's core avionics—from architecture through design, qualification, and production support.
• Drive the avionics roadmap: improve performance, reliability, cost, and standardization.
• Stay hands-on: contribute to architecture, review schematics/layouts, and support bring-up and debug.
• Set and uphold electrical design standards—design reviews, derating, documentation, ECO/DCO discipline.
• Own avionics qualification and test strategies, partnering with Hardware Reliability & Test.
• Partner with embedded software, mechanical, thermal, systems, and production teams for integration.
• Invest in developing engineers through coaching and growth planning.

Skills

Electrical design

Team leadership

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Embedded hardware

Hardware integration

Qualification testing

Education

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

Tools

UART

SPI

I2C

CAN

Ethernet

Board bring-up

Job description

Muon Space in San Jose, CA is seeking an Engineering Manager, Avionics to lead the core avionics team—flight computers, power systems, ADCS and related electronics—with a hands-on leadership style. You will drive architecture, review schematics, set design quality, grow the team, and collaborate with software, mechanical, thermal, and production groups to ensure seamless hardware/software integration.

This hybrid role requires onsite presence three days per week in San Jose, offering competitive