Senior Systems Engineer (Mission Platforms)

Join Muon, a lean and agile team focused on revolutionizing space technology. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will lead the definition and integration of our mission platform baseline, ensuring it meets all operational requirements. You will partner with Business Development and Product Management to define technical roadmaps, execute system-level simulations, and maintain situational awareness across all avionics and subsystem roadmaps. You will also shape fault management architectures, ensure data integrity, and drive systems standardization across the organization.

• Lead the definition and integration of the holistic mission platform baseline, ensuring the system meets all operational requirements across hardware, software, payloads, and mission operations.
• Partner directly with Business Development and Product Management to define the end-to-end technical roadmaps for spacecraft platform families, establishing and documenting standardized capability baselines.
• Act as the strategic integration peer to key domain leads, managing the integrated, end-to-end mission system requirements, and executing system-level simulation and analysis to ensure performance meets specifications.

• Extensive experience in AI&T workflows and V&V strategies, balancing technical risk with agile business constraints
• Proven history of system integration and delivery of complex, software-intensive systems
• Excellent communication, presentation, and coordination skills
• Prior experience moving organizations from custom, one-off engineering projects toward standardized, product-line engineering and reusable architectures
• Proven ability to drive alignment across highly senior, cross-functional stakeholders without direct reporting lines
• Ability to rapidly change roles/responsibilities while working in a high-paced, rewarding work environment
• Deep understanding of space vehicle dynamic behavior, fault management, and what it takes to actually fly and operate a spacecraft to meet strict SLAs
• We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application! In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know
• Experience as a lead systems engineer or technical stakeholder in an agile environment
• Software skills in Python or Julia
• Remote sensing instrument experience across multiple modalities (e.g., optical, multispectral, RF), and their associated data pipelines
• Familiarity with requirements management, systems modeling tools, and software engineering processes
• M.S. or higher degree in an engineering field plus 6+ years of experience working in a multi-disciplinary environment, preferably with exposure to spacecraft systems, payload integration, and mission operations