Software Engineer, Customer Solutions
Muon SpaceBase 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
Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end space systems company that designs, builds, and operates mission-optimized satellite constellations to deliver critical data and enable real-time compute and decision-making in space. Its proprietary technology stack, Halo™, integrates advanced spacecraft platforms, robust payload integration and management, and a powerful software-defined orchestration layer to enable high-performance capabilities at unprecedented speed – from concept to orbit. With state-of-the-art production facilities in Silicon Valley and a growing track record of defense, civil, and commercial and national security customers, Muon Space is redefining how mission-critical intelligence is delivered from space. For more information on Muon Space, visit: https://www.muonspace.com/