Software Engineer Manager, Muon Space
Mission Planning Platform
$230-245k
+ Equity grant
More information about location
Office located in San Jose, CA
End-to-end space systems provider
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End-to-end space systems provider
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$230-245k
+ Equity grant
More information about location
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
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent industry experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years of experience managing software engineering team building production systems
- Strong technical background in distributed systems, backend services, or platform development
- Demonstrated experience building and operating mission-critical services with uptime, reliability, and performance requirements
- Experience defining technical direction and driving execution through a team
- Strong communication skills and comfort working with cross-functional stakeholders
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in Python and C++ in production environments
- Knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure (e.g., containers, service orchestration, observability stacks)
Desirable
- Experience in aerospace, robotics, logistics, or other domains with real-time scheduling, planning, or resource allocation
- Familiarity with optimization techniques and how they integrate into operational systems
- Experience designing stable, intuitive customer-facing APIs and developer experiences
- Familiarity with data pipelines, simulation frameworks, or mission planning systems
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for building the platform that enables both internal and external customers to task on-orbit satellites
- This team owns the core infrastructure, services, and APIs that determine how satellites are scheduled, how ground contacts are coordinated, how maneuvers are planned, and how customers interact with mission capabilities
- In this role, you will develop the people, processes, and technical direction needed to deliver scalable, reliable systems that convert customer intent into safe and efficient on-orbit operations
- You will collaborate closely with mission operations, optimization, and product to build a platform that is robust, flexible, and easy to integrate with
- You'll lead, mentor, and grow a software engineering team responsible for core scheduling and tasking platform services
- Define team goals, and technical roadmaps that align with companies priorities
- Oversee the development of capabilities for collection scheduling and prioritization, ground contact planning and resource coordination, propulsion and maneuver planning, and customer-facing APIs for tasking and data access
- Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical services operating in production
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders to translate mission needs into clear requirements and technical specifications
- Drive engineering best practices including design reviews, code quality, testing, and observability
- Manage team capacity, staffing, and growth, including hiring, coaching, and performance development
- Promote a culture of technical ownership, continuous improvement, and pragmatic delivery
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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