Staff Mission Lead Systems Engineer

Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. They are seeking a Staff Mission Lead Systems Engineer to serve as the technical lead for a specific mission, owning the end-to-end technical success from concept through on-orbit operations. The role involves managing requirements, interfacing with customers, and leading design and readiness reviews to ensure mission success.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the ultimate technical authority for your designated mission, leading the conceptualization, design, and development of the mission. Drive critical cross-functional technical trades and decisions to ensure mission success
• Lead the tailoring and implementation of the Muon mission design process for your designated mission, ensuring alignment with program needs, while contributing to process refinement across all missions
• Own the translation of customer objectives and stakeholder needs into clear, verifiable, and actionable technical requirements for your designated mission
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for your designated mission, interfacing with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders on all technical matters
• Manage requirements traceability, verification, and validation
• Define mission CONOPS and manage subsystem budgets (e.g., power, data, mass, pointing/stability)
• Identify and mitigate internal and external mission risks, communicating impacts effectively
• Assess and coordinate design changes across disciplines throughout the program lifecycle
• Lead design, test readiness, and flight readiness reviews
• Monitor on-orbit spacecraft and data pipelines to ensure mission success and that customer requirements are met
• Foster deep collaboration with and provide technical direction to systems, hardware, software, data, ground segment, and operations teams for your designated mission, and support these interactions across other missions
• Effectively serve as the Mission Lead Systems Engineer for one mission while contributing general systems engineering expertise and support to other Muon missions, potentially deputizing for other Mission Lead Systems Engineers as needed
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in mission development and operations

Requirements:

• M.S. or higher degree in an engineering field and 10+ years of experience in mission architecture and/or spacecraft design, with a focus on high-rigor development for government and/or demanding commercial space systems
• Demonstrated experience as a technical lead (e.g., Chief Engineer, Lead Systems Engineer) on at least one major space program for a USG, DoD, or IC customer
• Experience with USG/IC acquisition programs, standards for space systems development, and mission assurance standards
• A strong understanding of USG/IC contracts and their artifacts
• Experience directly interfacing with and managing expectations for external customers
• Proven history of system integration and delivery of complex systems
• Experience in formal requirements management requirements for a multi-disciplinary project
• Demonstrated project management skills and ability to collaborate with other engineering disciplines
• Excellent communication, presentation, and coordination skills
• Ability to rapidly change roles/responsibilities while working in a high-paced, rewarding work environment
• Willingness and ability to obtain/maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
• Experience supporting proposal development (e.g., RFI/RFP responses) for government contracts
• Software skills in Python or Julia
• Remote sensing instrument experience across multiple modalities (e.g. optical, multispectral, RF), and their associated data pipelines
• Knowledge of industry standards for electrical and/or software quality practices
• Familiarity with software engineering tools and processes (version control, code review)