Senior Director of Spacecraft Structure & Mission Hardware

The role

This leader will guide the Bus Structure and Missions team through rapid growth. The role involves designing and owning spacecraft bus structures, GSE, and testbeds tailored to specific mission needs.

What you will do

• Lead a team to architect, design, analyze, and qualify a catalog of bus platforms.
• Collaborate with Product, Business Development, System Engineering, Software Engineering, and Operations.
• Collaborate with Mission Management and customers to understand mission and instrument needs.
• Implement instances of bus platforms for missions and ensure milestones are met.
• Own Spacecraft level structural and thermal analysis and bus level testing strategies.
• Produce and maintain mission specific hardware-in-the-loop testbeds.
• Support new mission proposals and contribute to cost models.
• Own design of mechanical and electrical ground support equipment.
• Mentor and support multiple levels of team managers.

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of experience designing and/or managing the design of complex, high reliability systems that operate in harsh environments.
• 8+ years of people management experience managing engineers and engineering managers.
• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Excellent leadership, program management, communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.
• Proven experience managing complex engineering projects from concept to deployment, including budget and schedule management.
• Ability to rapidly change roles/responsibilities in a high-paced work environment.
• Strong technical background understanding the fundamentals of mechanical and electrical design & analysis.

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k retirement plan
• Short & long term disability and life insurance
• Three weeks paid vacation for new employees
• 12 paid holidays
• Unlimited sick time
• Paid parental leave

Before you apply

• Requires access to export controlled information.
• Must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee), or eligible to access export controlled information without required export authorization, or eligible

About the company

Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations. Their facility in Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale.