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Salary: USD 153,000 - 172,000 / annual
Muon Space, a LEO satellite constellation provider founded in 2021, seeks a Mechanical Engineer to design and build hardware for spacecraft platforms. This is a hands-on design role with a fast build-test-learn loop where you'll own components and assemblies from concept through CAD, prototyping, flight build, and test. You'll work alongside senior and staff engineers, seeing your hardware go from design to flight and helping carry designs from first prototypes through constellation-quantity production.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own the design of components and assemblies within a spacecraft subsystem, from concept through CAD, flight build, and test
- Develop and document design options and trades, with guidance from senior engineers on approach
- Present designs at reviews and participate as a peer reviewer
- Drive integration and test of hardware, and troubleshoot issues through root cause during build, qualification, and mission operations
- Partner with structural and thermal groups on detailed analysis, and coordinate across adjacent disciplines to keep the vehicle integrated
- Mentor engineers, raise the team's technical bar, and influence design standards and best practices beyond your immediate scope
The position is hybrid, requiring three days per week on-site in San Jose, CA.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, and testing high-reliability hardware
- B.S. or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
- Proficiency in CAD (SolidWorks preferred) for medium-to-large assembly design
- Working proficiency with engineering drawings and GD&T; familiarity with BOMs, FAIs, and tolerance/mass budgets
- Experience with ECO/DCO processes and PLM systems
- Experience contributing to the design of electromechanical systems
- Extensive documentation capabilities: build procedures, test plans, design trades, DOEs
- Excellent communication, presentation, and cross-functional coordination skills
NICE-TO-HAVE:
- Deep design experience in spacecraft structures/mission integration, deployables/solar arrays, or precision mechanisms
- Experience owning a subsystem across its full lifecycle, including flight heritage or on-orbit hardware
- Fluency with first-order structural/thermal analysis
- Experience managing external vendors for part prototyping and development
- Experience leading design reviews and defining design standards or processes
- Hands-on background in integration, test, and anomaly resolution of flight hardware
- Familiarity with solar array or electrical/power-system design
- Experience mentoring or technically leading a small team of engineers
