Job Details

Location: Mountain View, CA (on-site)

Employment type: Full-time

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Base pay range: $181,000 - $202,000 per year

About the Role

Miuan seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate can dive deep on design and analysis while bringing a systems mindset and will be a force multiplier collaborating with other disciplines to arrive at an elegant, well-balanced design. Being an early-stage startup with a small team, breadth is extremely important and we expect this person to dive into structural data, dynamics, thermal design, supplier management and everything else associated with the full lifecycle of an electromechanical product. On-site work at our Mountain View location is required.

Responsibilities

• Create, review, and refine spacecraft mechanical design with product structure in a modern CAD package (Solidworks).
• Ownership of delivery of mechanical vehicles and subsystems, acting on multidisciplinary designs between launch provider, analysts, avionics, program, thermal, optical, and RF engineers.
• Find solutions and manage development of clean-sheet mechanical/structures architectures through detailed design consistent with risk posture, development velocity and deployment schedules at Muon.
• Make economically sound choices balancing rapid demonstration of capability while understanding the path to scaled-up constellations (Make vs Buy).
• Create quick concepts to spur inspiration on the team in early phases of programs.
• Perform basic stress and dynamic analyses (hand calcs, simple FEM) to support and inform structures designs including joint design, basic stiffness analyses.
• Contribute to maturing Muon's mechanical engineering standards and culture.
• Design test fixtures to support development and environmental testing.
• Influence flight designs to ensure hardware is easy to build and test.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience designing, building, and testing flight hardware in the Space industry, or similar in Aerospace, Self‑Driving, etc.
• A desire to change the way the world understands and reacts to climate and environmental data.
• B.S. or higher degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Some experience as an individual contributor structural/mechanical engineer.
• Design of components and assemblies in CAD.
• Understanding of drawings, GTOLs, and BOMs.
• Excellent communication, presentation, coordination skills & curiosity.
• Dedication to drawing conclusions on the most important factors and data.
• Excited to work in a fast‑paced environment with new opportunities each week.

Nice‑to‑have Skills

• Experience with solar arrays, SADAs, composite materials.
• Experience designing and executing structural tests for spacecraft.
• Large assembly management in Solidworks PDM, Duro PLM.
• Google Workspace; Sheets, Slides, Docs, Slack.
• Mechanical management of a product or system.
• Experience running structural analyses for spacecraft (FEMAP, ANSYS).
• Experience managing external vendors for part prototyping and development.
• Optomechanical instrument design.
• Software skills in Python, Matlab, C, C++.
• Experience working on thermal management systems for spacecraft.
• Shipped hardware designed for spacecraft, aircraft, automotive or similar environments.

Salary

The salary range for this role is $181K - $202K plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process.

About Muon Space

Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end‑to‑end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission‑critical data. We use a revolutionary, integrated technology stack to enable customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time‑to‑orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state‑of‑the‑art facility in Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale.

Benefits

We provide equity compensation, medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, disability and life insurance, three weeks paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace and encourage all applicants to apply, even if they do not check all the boxes.

ITAR/EAR Requirements

This position requires access to export‑controlled information. To comply with U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, the applicant must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) or otherwise eligible for an export authorization. The company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue an export licensing process.