Engineering Manager, Mission Electrical

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid vacation

12 holidays

Unlimited sick time

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space seeks an Engineering Manager to guide a team of electrical engineers customizing spacecraft platforms for specific missions. You will own electrical deliverables from requirements through design, build, integration, and test while staying technically engaged.

This hybrid role is on-site in San Jose, three days per week, with a strong customer-facing element and collaboration across mechanical, software, and systems teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, integrating, or testing complex electrical systems in harsh environments.
• 2+ years leading or managing engineering teams.
• Ability to read, understand, and debug electrical designs.
• Strong knowledge of spacecraft electronics: avionics, power, harnessing, sys integration.
• Experience with electrical harness design, documentation, and integration.
• Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB tools; standard lab equipment.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and presentation skills; hands-on mentor.
• B.S. or higher in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of electrical engineers for mission-specific work; plan resourcing and scale hiring.
• Instruct and coach early-career engineers; provide design feedback and growth plans.
• Own electrical deliverables from requirements through design adaptation, build, test.
• Define harness definition, routing, documentation, and payload interfaces.
• Translate customer needs into electrical solutions; reuse platform hardware where possible.
• Review schematics, support bring-up, and debug hardware issues to root cause.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for documentation, ECO/DCO, and test procedures.
• Collaborate with mechanical, software, systems, and production teams for integration.

Skills

Electrical systems design

Engineering leadership

Schematic/PCB tools

Harsh environments

Hardware debugging

Spacecraft avionics

Team coaching

Education

B.S. or higher in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Altium Cadence/OrCAD

Job description

About The Role

Muon seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team of electrical engineers who tailor Muon's spacecraft platforms to specific missions. This team owns all electrical customization a mission requires. This includes adapting our flight-proven avionics, power, and payload-interface hardware to mission requirements. As a result this team and role is more customer facing than other engineering roles. The work is closer to application engineering than new-product development: design work is focused and targeted, and the ability to deeply understand and debug existing designs is essential. This is a hands-on management role weighted toward leadership. You'll spend most of your time managing and developing your team, while staying technically engaged - reviewing designs, debugging hardware, and unblocking the team. The role reports to the Senior Director of Spacecraft Structures & Missions.

This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of electrical engineers customizing Muon's spacecraft platforms for specific missions; plan resourcing across concurrent missions and hire as the team scales
• Invest in developing early-career engineers through coaching, design feedback, and growth planning
• Own the electrical deliverables for assigned missions - from requirements through design adaptation, build, integration, and test
• Works with the harnessing to define harness definition, routing, documentation, and payload electrical interfaces
• Work with mission formulation and systems teams to translate customer needs into electrical solutions that reuse common platform hardware where possible or feed improvements back into the platform baseline
• Review schematics and interface designs, support bring-up, and debug hardware issues to root cause alongside the team
• Set and uphold engineering standards for the team - documentation, ECO/DCO discipline, and test procedures
• Partner with mechanical, software, systems, and production teams to ensure successful integration, manufacturability, and test

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing, integrating, or testing complex electrical systems that operate in harsh environments (spacecraft, aviation, automotive, robotics, or similar)
• 2+ years managing or technically leading engineering teams
• Strong ability to read, understand, and debug electrical designs
• Solid understanding of spacecraft or complex-system electronics: avionics, power distribution, harnessing, and hardware/software integration
• Experience with electrical harness design, documentation, and integration
• Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design tools (e.g., Altium, Cadence/OrCAD) and standard lab equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies)
• 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

Nice-to-have Skills

• Experience in the satellite industry or other high-reliability domains (vibration, thermal vacuum, ESD, radiation)
• Experience designing radiation-tolerant electronics using COTS components
• Experience working directly with customers on mission requirements and design reviews
• Embedded firmware familiarity (C/C++ or embedded Linux) for debugging hardware/software integration issues
• Test automation and data analysis using Python or similar

Salary

The salary range for this role is $186,000 - $202,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process.

About Muon Space

Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.

Taking Care of Our Team

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k retirement plan
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Three weeks paid vacation for new employees
• 12 paid holidays
• Unlimited sick time
• Paid parental leave

Our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too. Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application! In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

ITAR/EAR Requirements

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C.

• 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C.
• 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.