Engineering Manager, Mission Electrical

About the role

Muon seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team of electrical engineers who tailor Muon's spacecraft platforms to specific missions. This team owns all electrical customization a mission requires. This includes adapting our flight-proven avionics, power, and payload-interface hardware to mission requirements. As a result this team and role is more customer facing than other engineering roles.

The work is closer to application engineering than new-product development: design work is focused and targeted, and the ability to deeply understand and debug existing designs is essential. This is a hands-on management role weighted toward leadership. You'll spend most of your time managing and developing your team, while staying technically engaged - reviewing designs, debugging hardware, and unblocking the team.

The role reports to the Senior Director of Spacecraft Structures & Missions.

This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of electrical engineers customizing Muon's spacecraft platforms for specific missions; plan resourcing across concurrent missions and hire as the team scales
• Invest in developing early-career engineers through coaching, design feedback, and growth planning
• Own the electrical deliverables for assigned missions - from requirements through design adaptation, build, integration, and test
• Works with the harnessing to define harness definition, routing, documentation, and payload electrical interfaces
• Work with mission formulation and systems teams to translate customer needs into electrical solutions that reuse common platform hardware where possible or feed improvements back into the platform baseline
• Review schematics and interface designs, support bring-up, and debug hardware issues to root cause alongside the team
• Set and uphold engineering standards for the team - documentation, ECO/DCO discipline, and test procedures
• Partner with mechanical, software, systems, and production teams to ensure successful integration,manufacturability, and test

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing, integrating, or testing complex electrical systems that operate in harsh environments (spacecraft, aviation, automotive, robotics, or similar)
• 2+ years managing or technically leading engineering teams
• Strong ability to read, understand, and debug electrical designs
• Solid understanding of spacecraft or complex-system electronics: avionics, power distribution, harnessing, and hardware/software integration
• Experience with electrical harness design, documentation, and integration
• Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design tools (e.g., Altium, Cadence/OrCAD) and standard lab equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies)
• Excellent leadership, communication, and presentation skills; ability to move fluidly between team leadership and hands-on engineering
• B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Nice-to-have Skills

• Experience in the satellite industry or other high-reliability domains (vibration, thermal vacuum, ESD, radiation)
• Experience designing radiation-tolerant electronics using COTS components
• Experience working directly with customers on mission requirements and design reviews
• Embedded firmware familiarity (C/C++ or embedded Linux) for debugging hardware/software integration issues
• Test automation and data analysis using Python or similar

Salary

The salary range for this role is $192,000 - $212,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process.

Muon is currently registered and able to hire in the following states

AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IA, ID, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA

ITAR/EAR Requirements

This position requires access to export controlled information.

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency.

The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.