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.
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29 open positions
Senior Software Engineer building scalable, reliable ground station platform systems for mission-critical satellite operations. The role offers broad ownership across architecture, backend services, and end-to-end platform capabilities in a hybrid San Jose environment.
Principal Software Engineer, Mission Design will shape software architectures and roadmaps for diverse spacecraft missions, aligning customer needs with Muon’s common platform. The role combines whole-system design, customer-facing technical leadership, and organizational stewardship across aerospace software.
Muon is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build mission-critical internal software, platforms, and automation for its Information Systems team. The role owns full-stack solutions end to end and is hybrid in San Jose, with three days per week onsite.
Build mission-critical ground software for high-performance satellite constellations while owning a mentored project from design through implementation and testing. This full-time, on-site summer internship offers hands-on experience across spacecraft operations, simulation, hardware integration, and sensor-data processing.
Staff Software Engineer leading the architecture and delivery of scalable, low-latency IR data systems for Muon Space’s satellite missions. The role combines distributed data platforms, geospatial processing, cloud infrastructure, and MLOps foundations while providing cross-team technical leadership.
Build and operate production-grade Python pipelines and backend services that transform infrared satellite data into reliable, customer-facing geospatial products. This senior role combines data engineering, geospatial serving, low-latency optimization, and scientific productionization.
Build high-quality software that enables Muon’s satellite constellations, spanning embedded systems, simulations, data pipelines, algorithms, and cloud services. This hybrid entry-level role offers the opportunity to develop quickly while working onsite in San Jose three days per week.
Join Muon Space as a full-time, on-site Flight Software Engineering Intern developing software and test tools for satellites. You’ll own an internship-scoped project with mentorship across design, implementation, simulation, hardware integration, and testing.
Join Muon’s GNC Engineering team as a full-time, on-site summer intern developing spacecraft flight software, analysis tools, and automated testing. You’ll own a project from concept through completion while contributing to real spacecraft programs.
Lead the design, operation, and government integration of production software pipelines that process and deliver infrared mission data to NRO and other Intelligence Community customers. The role combines data engineering, geospatial processing, classified-environment operations, and NITF imagery product ownership.
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