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Muon Space is seeking a Program Manager to lead the development, demonstration, and productization of secure data-handling capabilities for satellite platforms. This role directly expands the company's ability to pursue national-security missions and owns both program execution and transition into active proposals and funded flight programs.
This is a hands-on technical program management position at the intersection of hardware development, embedded firmware, security engineering, and government mission capture. The Program Manager contributes directly to engineering work—architecture, design, analysis, and test—as a working member of the team, not merely a coordinator. You will be the single accountable owner for cost, schedule, and technical performance across parallel swimlanes: cryptographic hardware carrier development, hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testbed build-out, end-to-end encrypted data-path demonstration (ground-to-flight and flight-to-ground), and proposal-ready design artifacts for upcoming government opportunities. The team is small and senior; you will own scheduling, cost tracking, and program control directly with no supporting program office.
Key responsibilities include owning the integrated master schedule, cost baseline, and risk register; driving the program through design reviews, hardware build and integration, test campaigns, and demonstration milestones; running weekly program cadence and making decisions at startup speed; owning the program's security and compliance posture including controlled-material handling and ITAR/EAR compliance; contributing directly to system architecture, trade studies, requirements development, and design analysis; partnering with the Mission Manager and Chief Engineer on technical decision-making; managing configuration control and cross-functional issue resolution; and supporting active proposal and capture efforts with technical artifacts and cost/schedule inputs while representing the program in customer and partner technical exchanges.
Required: 6+ years of program management experience on complex technical systems spanning hardware and software; 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience (electrical, embedded systems, mechanical, RF/communications, or similar) with demonstrated ability to contribute directly to design, analysis, and test while leading; direct experience with space, defense, or aerospace programs handling CUI or classified data; demonstrated ownership of board- or box-level hardware development through design reviews to working, tested product; experience leading testbed, HITL, or ground-segment development and running structured verification or demonstration campaigns; working understanding of secure communications concepts (Type 1 encryption, Red/Black separation, key management) and their program-level implications; ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Top Secret clearance; U.S. citizenship (ITAR-restricted program); and excellent written communication skills for design review packages, test plans, and customer-facing technical artifacts.
Preferred: active Secret or TS/SCI clearance; prior experience integrating NSA Type 1 cryptographic units or managing COMSEC/CCI on flight programs; direct experience with SDA, NRO, USSF Space Systems Command, or similar customers; familiarity with embedded firmware and FPGA development lifecycles; experience running IR&D or capability-development programs feeding concurrent proposals; experience supporting classified proposal development and color-team reviews; PMP certification.
