About the roleMuon seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team of electrical engineers who tailor Muon's spacecraft platforms to specific missions. This team owns all electrical customization a mission requires. This includes adapting our flight-proven avionics, power, and payload-interface hardware to mission requirements. As a result this team and role is more customer facing than other engineering roles. The work is closer to application engineering than new-product development: design work is focused and targeted, and the ability to deeply understand and debug existing designs is essential. This is a hands-on management role weighted toward leadership. You'll spend most of your time managing and developing your team, while staying technically engaged - reviewing designs, debugging hardware, and unblocking the team. The role reports to the Senior Director of Spacecraft Structures & Missions.
This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week.
Responsibilities- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of electrical engineers customizing Muon's spacecraft platforms for specific missions; plan resourcing across concurrent missions and hire as the team scales
- Invest in developing early-career engineers through coaching, design feedback, and growth planning
- Own the electrical deliverables for assigned missions - from requirements through design adaptation, build, integration, and test
- Works with the harnessing to define harness definition, routing, documentation, and payload electrical interfaces
- Work with mission formulation and systems teams to translate customer needs into electrical solutions that reuse common platform hardware where possible or feed improvements back into the platform baseline
- Review schematics and interface designs, support bring-up, and debug hardware issues to root cause alongside the team
- Set and uphold engineering standards for the team - documentation, ECO/DCO discipline, and test procedures
- Partner with mechanical, software, systems, and production teams to ensure successful integration,manufacturability, and test
Required Qualifications- 8+ years of experience designing, integrating, or testing complex electrical systems that operate in harsh environments (spacecraft, aviation, automotive, robotics, or similar)
- 2+ years managing or technically leading engineering teams
- Strong ability to read, understand, and debug electrical designs
- Solid understanding of spacecraft or complex-system electronics: avionics, power distribution, harnessing, and hardware/software integration
- Experience with electrical harness design, documentation, and integration
- Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design tools (e.g., Altium, Cadence/OrCAD) and standard lab equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies)
- Excellent leadership, communication, and presentation skills; ability to move fluidly between team leadership and hands-on engineering
- B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
Nice-to-have Skills- Experience in the satellite industry or other high-reliability domains (vibration, thermal vacuum, ESD, radiation)
- Experience designing radiation-tolerant electronics using COTS components
- Experience working directly with customers on mission requirements and design reviews
- Embedded firmware familiarity (C/C++ or embedded Linux) for debugging hardware/software integration issues
- Test automation and data analysis using Python or similar
SalaryThe salary range for this role is $186,000 - $202,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process.
