Principal Software Engineer, Mission Design
Muon Space2 days ago
Base Salary
$266k - $298k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with Business Development to prioritize, design, staff, and guide high-impact customer projects to successful delivery.
- Capture major common customer needs in organizational plans and the company Product Roadmap.
- Steward software architectural standards and guardrails while supporting engineering velocity, security, reliability, and performance.
- Support Customer Solutions Software Engineers and serve as an escalation point for critical customer discussions and design questions.
- Align software organizational plans and mission roadmaps with the company’s strategic framework.
- Help define training plans for software engineering.
Requirements
- Expertise in whole-system design, holistic testing, deployment strategy, and current software engineering methodology.
- Extensive knowledge of theory and practice across aerospace, robotics, or an adjacent domain.
- Excellent negotiation skills in organizational and technical contexts.
- Expertise in multiple programming languages and distributed systems theory and practice.
- Preferred experience with C++ and Python.
- Preferred experience with AWS, Kubernetes, containers, and related cloud technologies.
- Preferred experience with embedded software, high-performance computing, FPGA, or related domains.
- Preferred experience with statistical analysis and/or machine learning.
Benefits
- Salary range of $266,000-$298,000 plus a competitive equity grant.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401k retirement plan; short- and long-term disability; and life insurance.
- Three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
- Preferred work arrangement is three days per week on-site at the San Jose, California office, with alternative locations considered.
- Muon is registered and able to hire in the listed eligible U.S. states.
- The position is subject to ITAR/EAR export-control access requirements.
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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.