Senior Software Engineer, Muon Space
Generalist
$184-208k
+ Equity
Office located in San Jose, CA
End-to-end space systems provider
Be an early applicant
End-to-end space systems provider
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$184-208k
+ Equity
Office located in San Jose, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make Earth Intelligence accessible to help protect our planet's people, climate and ecosystem.
Role
Who you are
- They have significant prior experience and interest in either robotics, autonomy, embedded software, mobile development, simulation or distributed systems
- Proven capability to quickly learn new programming languages and development environments
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
- 8+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment
- Strong programming in C++, Rust or Python
Desirable
- Expertise in embedded software, robotics or autonomy
- Training in physics, statistics, computational mathematics or electrical engineering
- Prior experience in aerospace software
What the job involves
- Muon seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join our Software Team. The ideal candidate is a brilliant generalist problem-solver with excellent system design and coding skills who can find and deploy simple solutions to complex problems
- They are able to quickly understand new technology and systems, and to reason about automation and fault handling in a complex environment
- Design, lead, implement multi-week complex and cross-team projects
- Estimate forward-looking work
- Measure metrics aligned and highly correlated with company goals
- Manage, publish and update goals for their area of responsibility
- Act as the company expert in their area of ownership
- Mentor new and junior engineers
- Ensure company standards are upheld for code, testing, design and review
- Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for our software foundation
Our take
Developing and operating satellites represents a significant challenge. Many organizations need accurate, space-based data but lack the resources or expertise to build their own spacecraft or manage the necessary ground systems and data processing.
To tackle this issue, Muon Space provides a service called Muon Halo. This allows customers to access satellite data without having to handle the technical details of satellite construction or operation. Muon offers end-to-end solutions, including building and launching satellites, managing operations, and processing collected data.
Muon has contracts with major customers like the US Air Force and US Space Force. It is supported by considerable funding that is being invested into scaling operations across satellite production, the deployment of its automated constellation operations platform, and expansion of its global ground station network.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2025
$44.5m
SERIES B
Aug 2024
$56.7m
SERIES B
Total funding: $146.2m
Company 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
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Pascal Stang
(CTO & Co-founder)Previously a Director of the Autonomous Vehicle Division at Lyft. Prior to that, they were a Flight Vehicle Area Tech Lead at Google and a Satellite Systems Architect at Terra Bella.
Dan McCleese
(Chief Scientist & Co-founder)Previously worked at NASA for over 23 years in a number of roles including Mars Climate Sounder/MRO, Principal Investigator and Chief Scientist. They also worked at Calltech as a Climate Modelling Alliance Project Manager.
Paul Day
(VP of Spacecraft Production & Co-founder)Previously the CPO at Loft Orbital. They also worked as an Engineering Program Manager at Apple and as a Technical Program Manager at Google.
Reuben Rohrschneider
(Chief Mission Architect & Co-founder)Graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a PhD in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering. Previously worked at Ball Aerospace for over 14 years as a Mission Systems Engineer then Principal Mission Systems and Architect Engineer.
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