Principal Mission Design Software Architect

Muon Space, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 266,000 - 298,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k

Short & long term disability

Life insurance

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space, Inc. in San Jose, CA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design of software solutions for diverse missions, shaping the full Muon software architecture and roadmap.

You will guide the evolution of the common platform, collaborate with Business Development, Product Management, Systems Engineering and Hardware, and align plans with strategic goals to deliver value for customers.

Qualifications

• Expertise in whole-system design, holistic testing and deployment strategy, and the state of the art in software engineering methodology
• Extensive knowledge of theory and practice across aerospace, robotics or an adjacent domain
• Excellent negotiation skills in both organizational and technical contexts
• Expertise in multiple programming languages
• Expertise in distributed systems theory and practice

Responsibilities

• Work with Business Development to prioritize, design and align on staffing for the highest impact small projects that, if done early, will unlock major value for our customers. Then, guide those efforts to successful and timely impact.
• Ensure that major, common customer needs are captured in organizational plans and the company's Product Roadmap.
• Act as part of the group with stewardship over the architectural standards and guardrails within the Software organization, ensuring high engineering velocity for our teams, and security, reliability and performance for our systems.
• Support the Customer Solutions Software Engineers in their engagements with our customers, and act as the escalation point for the most important customer discussions and design questions. Act as an accelerator for this entire group.
• Ensure Software organizational plans and roadmaps for missions are aligned with the company's strategic framework.
• Help to define training plans for software engineering.

Skills

Whole-system design

Aerospace knowledge

Negotiation skills

Programming languages

Distributed systems

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Containers

FPGA

Python

Job description

Muon Space, Inc. in San Jose, CA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design of software solutions for diverse missions, shaping the full Muon software architecture and roadmap.

You will guide the evolution of the common platform, collaborate with Business Development, Product Management, Systems Engineering and Hardware, and align plans with strategic goals to deliver value for customers.