Senior Mission Lead: EO/IR Space Systems

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 177,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid vacation

Job summary

Muon Space seeks a Staff Mission Lead Systems Engineer to join the Mission Execution team, partnering with the Mission Architecture group during early study phases to shape technical concepts and baselines for prospective Muon missions. You will own end-to-end technical success from concept through on-orbit operations for demanding missions.

As a senior technical authority, you will interface with customers and cross-functional teams, perform system modeling and risk reduction, and drive

Qualifications

• Direct engineering experience with EO/IR and/or RF systems and architecture trades.
• B.S. or higher in an engineering field with 8+ years in complex systems for government/commercial customers.
• Experience as a technical lead on a complex system for USG/DoD/IC or commercial customers.
• Experience with USG/IC contracts and space system development standards.
• Strong system modeling, analysis, and simulations experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Mission Architecture during study efforts to shape mission concepts and baselines.
• Develop and maintain mission-level system models, requirements, interfaces, and behavior.
• Lead the design and development of the designated mission and drive cross-functional trades.
• Define mission CONOPS and manage subsystem budgets (power, data, mass, pointing).
• Coordinate design changes across disciplines and lead readiness reviews.
• Monitor on-orbit performance and ensure customer requirements are met.

Skills

EO/IR systems

RF systems

USG/DoD experience

System modeling

Proposal development

Education

B.S. or higher in Engineering

Tools

Cameo Systems Modeler

Python

Job description

Muon Space seeks a Staff Mission Lead Systems Engineer to join the Mission Execution team, partnering with the Mission Architecture group during early study phases to shape technical concepts and baselines for prospective Muon missions. You will own end-to-end technical success from concept through on-orbit operations for demanding missions.

As a senior technical authority, you will interface with customers and cross-functional teams, perform system modeling and risk reduction, and drive