Muon Space
Muon Space designs, builds, and operates low Earth orbit satellite constellations and a software stack that deliver Earth intelligence and in-orbit compute for government, defense, and commercial users. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the privately held company sells spacecraft, payload integration, and data services. It runs a San Jose production facility capable of building up to 500 satellites in the 100–500+ kg class annually and has acquired propulsion startup Starlight Engines.
Open Positions at Muon Space
21 open positions
Lead the development and operational deployment of Muon’s flight dynamics capabilities for LEO spacecraft, spanning orbit determination, maneuver planning, and constellation-scale automation. This senior role combines hands-on C++ and Python development with spacecraft maneuver operations, technical leadership, and mentoring.
Senior Software Engineer, Flight Software will build and operate embedded software and firmware for Muon Space’s orbiting satellites. The role spans flight-software architecture, hardware integration, drivers, and software/hardware-in-the-loop testing.
Muon Space is seeking a Computer Vision / Machine Learning Software Engineer to build image-processing algorithms and ML systems for ground and onboard satellite products. The role combines model development, ML data engineering, and low-latency deployment across cloud and edge environments.
Build high-throughput, low-latency computer vision and image-processing services for Muon Space’s mission-critical satellite data products. You’ll optimize C++ and GPU-accelerated pipelines and bring classical imaging algorithms into production at scale.
Senior Software Engineer responsible for architecting and building Muon Space’s cloud-based image processing and ML serving platform for low-latency, mission-critical data products. The role combines expert C++, PyTorch, distributed systems, and performance optimization with technical leadership and mentorship.
Senior Software Engineer focused on building reliable simulation services and high-performance compute infrastructure for satellite mission products. The role combines software architecture, simulation-model integration, automated testing, and technical mentorship in a hybrid San Jose environment.
Senior Software Engineer leading the architecture and development of Python-based hardware test frameworks, instrument drivers, databases, and tooling for spacecraft testing. This hybrid San Jose role bridges software engineering with hands-on electronics and laboratory debugging.
Muon Space is hiring a Software Engineer, Customer Solutions to help external payload partners integrate software and instruments with its spacecraft platform before launch. The role combines customer-facing technical leadership, simulation and integration testing, SDK documentation, and payload interface development.
Lead the end-to-end architecture of Muon Space’s heterogeneous onboard high-performance compute platform across FPGA, GPU, CPU, and networking systems. This staff-level role shapes reusable, mission-flexible spacecraft compute platforms and requires three days per week on-site in San Jose.
Own the shared platform, build flows, test environments, and delivery pipelines that turn FPGA and GPU engineering work into flight-ready artifacts for Muon Space missions. This hybrid San Jose role also leads roadmap planning, estimation, reporting, and engineering enablement across the High Performance Compute team.
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