Remote Mission Lead Systems Engineer Earth Intelligence

Muon Space inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 194,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Muon Space is seeking a Staff Mission Lead Systems Engineer to drive end-to-end mission design from study to on-orbit operations. You will partner with the Mission Architecture team, own technical baselines, and serve as the primary technical authority for designated missions across Gov and commercial customers.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop models, requirements, and trade studies, while ensuring risk is mitigated and design changes are coordinated throughout the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering and 10+ years in complex system/mission architecture for government or demanding customers.
• Experience as chief engineer or lead systems engineer on a complex design for USG/DoD/IC or commercial customers.
• Experience with USG/IC acquisition programs and space system development standards.
• Extensive experience in system modeling, analysis, and simulations.
• Proven track record delivering complex systems and leading cross-disciplinary teams.
• Strong ability to manage requirements across a multi-disciplinary project.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and coordination skills.
• Active TS/SCI clearance is required or active eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Mission Architecture to develop concepts and shape baselines for missions.
• Maintain mission-level models—architecture, requirements, interfaces, behavior.
• Serve as the technical authority, leading conceptualization, design, and development.
• Tailor Muon design processes to program needs and improve across missions.
• Translate customer objectives into verifiable technical requirements.
• Interface with customers, partners, and internal teams on technical matters.
• Manage requirements traceability, verification, and validation.
• Define CONOPS and manage subsystem budgets (power, data, mass, pointing).
• Identify and mitigate risks and coordinate design changes across disciplines.
• Lead design, test readiness, and flight readiness reviews.
• Monitor on-orbit performance and data pipelines for mission success.
• Collaborate across systems engineering, hardware, software, and operations teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

Systems engineering

Space systems

USG/DoD/IC experience

Requirements management

Modeling & simulations

Program management

Communication

TS/SCI clearance

Education

B.S. in engineering

Tools

SysML MBSE (Cameo)

Python

Job description

Muon Space is seeking a Staff Mission Lead Systems Engineer to drive end-to-end mission design from study to on-orbit operations. You will partner with the Mission Architecture team, own technical baselines, and serve as the primary technical authority for designated missions across Gov and commercial customers.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop models, requirements, and trade studies, while ensuring risk is mitigated and design changes are coordinated throughout the