Senior Director of Spacecraft Components

The role

This leader will build and guide the Spacecraft Components organization. You will lead a multidisciplinary team to architect, design, qualify, and deliver electronics, RF, integrated modules, mechanisms, and solar and deployable systems.

What you will do

• Lead a multidisciplinary organization to architect, design, qualify, and deliver spacecraft components
• Own component roadmaps to drive standardization and reuse across spacecraft platforms
• Own component-level design, analysis, qualification, and electrical test strategies
• Provide engineering design support to instrument and propulsion teams
• Collaborate with Product, Business Development, Systems Engineering, Software, and Operations
• Partner with Production and Supply Chain to scale components from prototype to constellation quantities
• Own budgets, schedules, and delivery milestones for component development programs
• 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, including managing engineers and engineering managers
• Strong technical foundation spanning electrical, embedded, and mechanical design and analysis
• Experience designing and manufacturing low-volume, high-mix products efficiently
• Proven experience managing complex engineering projects from concept to deployment, including budget and schedule management
• Excellent leadership, program management, communication, and problem-solving skills
• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Nice to have

• Flight heritage delivering spaceflight avionics, mechanisms, solar arrays, or similar components
• Experience standing up new teams or reorganizing engineering organizations during rapid growth
• Experience with vertically integrated hardware development, from in-house design through production at scale
• Experience with RF hardware or electrical test infrastructure development
• Experience supporting instrument or propulsion system development

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

About the company

Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations. The company is located in Silicon Valley.