Hybrid Engineering Manager - Spacecraft Electrical Systems

Old Mission Peninsula School; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

401k

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team of electrical engineers tailoring spacecraft platforms for specific missions. The role is hands-on with leadership, reviewing designs, debugging hardware, and unblocking the team.

Hybrid work requires on-site presence in San Jose three days per week. You will own electrical deliverables from requirements through design, build, integration, and test, while collaborating with mechanical, software, and systems teams to ensure successful mission

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, integrating, or testing complex electrical systems in harsh environments
• 2+ years managing or leading engineering teams
• Strong ability to read, understand, and debug electrical designs
• Solid understanding of spacecraft/electrical systems: avionics, power distribution, harnessing, hardware/software integration
• Experience with electrical harness design, documentation, and integration
• Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design tools (Altium, Cadence/OrCAD) and standard lab equipment
• 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 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
• Define harness definition, routing, documentation, and payload electrical interfaces
• 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 with the team
• Set and uphold engineering standards for documentation, ECO/DCO discipline, and test procedures
• Partner with mechanical, software, systems, and production teams to ensure successful integration, manufacturability, and test

Skills

Electrical systems

Team leadership

Schematic design

PCB design

Altium/Cadence

Harsh environments

Hardware debugging

Customer facing

Engineering management

Education

Electrical Eng degree

Tools

Altium

Cadence/OrCAD

Job description

Muon Space seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team of electrical engineers tailoring spacecraft platforms for specific missions. The role is hands-on with leadership, reviewing designs, debugging hardware, and unblocking the team.

Hybrid work requires on-site presence in San Jose three days per week. You will own electrical deliverables from requirements through design, build, integration, and test, while collaborating with mechanical, software, and systems teams to ensure successful mission