Software Engineer, Muon Space
Flight Software
$170-195k
+ Equity
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
$170-195k
+ Equity
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
- The ideal candidate is a self-motivated versatile software developer with significant previous experience developing robust bare-metal / RTOS embedded devices or appliances
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
- 5+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment
- Strong C/C++ programming, with some practical familiarity of other languages
- Great embedded systems fundamentals: resource-efficient design, low-level drivers, bit manipulation, responsive software and IRQ handling, RTOS frameworks, I/O and communication buses
- Integration and control of external hardware devices
- Read and understand hardware data sheets
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application!
Desirable
- Knowledge of industry-standard data formats and schemas (ProtoBuf, YAML, JSON, etc)
- Familiarity with a Linux-based development environment
- Experience with one or more of: embedded linux, FPGA, HW design, RF communication systems, cloud/server infrastructure, network architecture
- End-to-end development from product concept to delivery to customer/market
What the job involves
- Muon seeks a Flight Software Engineer to join our satellite flight software team
- In this role, you will design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware that runs on our orbiting satellites. This position is based at our San Jose, CA office
- Integral member of the team defining and building Muon’s satellite bus platform
- Translate concepts and requirements into design and working implementations, supporting through to on-orbit operations
- Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment that runs in our satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs
- Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for our software foundation
- Write application, platform, and driver functionality in our flight software environment and teach others how to use it
- Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems in both software and hardware
- Collaborate with hardware team members on the design and bring up of Muon hardware
- Collaborate with software team members to set flight software architecture, select infrastructure and tools, and communicate with cloud backends
- Participate in developing software and hardware-in-the-loop test strategies
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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