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Muon SpaceSan Jose, CA
Engineering Manager (Avionics)
On-siteFull Time$186k - $202k per yearPosted 10 days ago
About the role
- Muon seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the team that designs the core avionics at the heart of every Muon spacecraft
- flight computers, power systems and batteries, ADCS controller, and related electronics
- Unlike our mission-facing teams, this team is design-focused: architecting, designing, qualifying, and evolving the avionics products that are reused across our satellite platforms and missions
- This is a hands-on management role for a leader with an extensive electrical design background: you’ll manage and grow the team while staying deeply engaged technically
- driving architecture, reviewing schematics and layouts, and setting the design quality bar
- Lead, mentor, and grow the avionics design team along with planning resourcing across concurrent development efforts and hire as the team scales
- Own delivery of Muon’s core avionics
- flight computers, power systems and batteries, ADCS controllers, and related electronics
- from architecture through design, qualification, and production support
- Drive the avionics roadmap: improve performance, reliability, cost, and manufacturability, and maximize standardization and reuse across satellite platforms
- Stay hands-on: contribute to architecture definition, review schematics and layouts, and support bring-up and debug alongside the team
- Set and uphold electrical design standards — design reviews, derating and worst-case analysis, documentation, and ECO/DCO discipline
- Own avionics qualification and test strategies, partnering with Hardware Reliability & Test to ensure consistent qualification across products
- Partner with embedded software, mechanical, thermal, systems, and production teams to ensure successful hardware/software integration and manufacturability
- Invest in developing engineers through coaching, design feedback, and growth planning Benefits
- 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for employees; 50% coverage for dependents (Concierge Medical offered through One Medical where available)
- Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
- Generous time off policy
- 401(k) plan through Betterment and equity management through Carta
- Fully stocked kitchen at our HQ and we cater lunch 3 days per week
- Dog-friendly office
- Extensive hands-on electrical design experience: architecture, schematic capture, PCB layout, and board bring-up for complex mixed-signal systems
- 2+ years managing or technically leading engineering teams
- Experience taking boards from concept through qualification and production
- Excellent leadership, communication, and presentation skills; ability to move fluidly between team leadership and hands-on engineering
- Deep understanding across avionics domains: embedded processing, power conversion and distribution, battery systems, and control electronics
- B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Strong grasp of hardware/software integration: microcontrollers and common interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet)
- 8+ years of experience designing complex, high-reliability electronics that operate in harsh environments (spacecraft, aviation, automotive, robotics, or similar)
- Flight heritage — avionics you designed that has successfully operated in space
- Experience designing radiation-tolerant electronics using COTS components
- Experience with power electronics for space applications (batteries, switching converters, load switches)
- Experience with FPGAs, SoCs, or embedded Linux platforms
- Test automation and data analysis using Python or similar
- EMI/EMC design and test experience
- We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application!
- This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process