Senior Mission Lead Systems Engineer, Commercial Payloads

The role

You will serve as the technical lead for a specific mission, owning technical success from concept through on-orbit operations. You will manage requirements, mission design, and cross-functional technical trades for government and commercial programs.

What you will do

• Serve as the technical authority for a designated mission.
• Lead the tailoring and implementation of the mission design process.
• Translate customer objectives into technical requirements.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers and stakeholders.
• Manage requirements traceability, verification, and validation.
• Define mission CONOPS and manage subsystem budgets.
• Identify and mitigate internal and external mission risks.
• Assess and coordinate design changes across disciplines.
• Lead design, test readiness, and flight readiness reviews.
• Monitor on-orbit spacecraft and data pipelines.

Required qualifications

• B.S. or higher degree in an engineering field
• 10+ years of experience in complex system, mission architecture, and/or spacecraft design
• Experience as a technical lead on at least one complex system design for a USG, DoD, IC customer, and/or commercial customer
• Experience directly interfacing with and managing expectations for external customers
• Extensive experience in system modeling, systems analysis, and running simulations
• Proven history of system integration and delivery of complex systems
• Experience in formal requirements management for a multi-disciplinary project
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and coordination skills
• Ability to rapidly change roles/responsibilities

Nice to have

• Experience with major space programs for USG, DoD, IC customer, and/or commercial customers
• Experience with standards for space systems development and mission assurance standards
• Experience with Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) subsystem requirements, analysis, and trade spaces for Earth observation missions
• Experience with space system Assembly, Integration, & Test (AI&T) processes
• Experience supporting proposal development (e.g., RFI/RFP responses) for government contracts
• Software skills in Python or Julia
• Familiarity with software engineering tools and processes (version control, code review)
• Knowledge of industry standards for electrical and/or software quality practices
• Remote sensing instrument experience across multiple modalities (e.g., optical, multispectral, RF), and their associated data pipelines
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) or eligible to access export controlled information
• Requires access to 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 dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.