Software Engineer, Customer Solutions
Muon Space2 months ago
Base Salary
$156k - $186k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the engineering experience for external payload partners integrating with Muon’s software platform, including commanding, telemetry, payload management, fault detection and recovery, and data downlink.
- Partner with Flight Software, Mission Engineering, and Systems Engineering to influence payload interface design and evolution.
- Lead customer-facing technical exchanges, design reviews, and integration test campaigns as the named software technical point of contact.
- Author and maintain customer-facing developer guides, sample code, reference applications, and the Payload Accommodation Guide.
- Maintain epics, estimate forward-looking work, and escalate roadmap changes or delays early.
- Define and track customer payload-integration metrics and manage OKRs for the area of responsibility.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong fluency in modern C++ and Python.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including shipping software used by external customers.
- Excellent coding, design, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred experience includes spaceflight or safety- and mission-critical embedded software, third-party payload integration with a satellite bus, developer SDKs, customer-facing technical documentation, partner-integration programs, Linux-based real-time systems, embedded networking protocols, negotiation, and customer alignment.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week onsite at the San Jose, California office.
- Full-time employees receive equity compensation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
- Three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
About 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.