<h1><span style="font-size:14pt;">About the role</span></h1><p>Muon seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our team. This role is responsible for the design, build, and test of spacecraft and/or large subsystems that Muon launches, specifically Solar Arrays. You’ll be at the frontlines of implementation, working with the mission formulation team to understand the customer needs and lay out a space vehicle that solves those needs. You’ll pull internally developed ‘off the shelf’ parts from our avionics team, or source them externally, or design new items in-house. You’ll then develop those parts into full systems, and consider the mechanical, thermal, structural, and dynamics of the full flight system. You’ll be tasked to lead decisions on make vs buy for hardware and to conduct risk analyses. Documentation of the designs will be paramount, presenting them internally and to external customers.</p><p>You’ll be responsible for a portfolio of core technology and are expected to lead architecture definition, establish standards, process, and best practices for team and external stakeholders. As such, you will define roadmaps with 1 year+ horizon.</p><p>The ideal candidate can go deep on design and analysis but also has a “systems mindset” and will be a force multiplier collaborating with other disciplines to arrive at an elegant, well-balanced design.  Being an early-stage startup with a small team, breadth is extremely important and we expect this person to dive into structural data, dynamics, thermal design, supplier management and everything else associated with the full lifecycle of an electromechanical product. </p><p><strong><em>Due to the hands-on nature of this role, it does require onsite work at our Mountain View location</em></strong>.</p><h2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Responsibilities</span></h2><ul><li>Create, analyze, and refine spacecraft mechanical design in a modern CAD package (Solidworks)</li><li>Find solutions and manage development of clean-sheet mechanical / structures architectures through detailed design consistent with the risk posture, development velocity and deployment schedules at Muon</li><li>Ownership of delivery of mechanical vehicles and subsystems, acting on multidisciplinary designs between launch provider, analysts, avionics, program, thermal, optical, and RF engineers</li><li>Perform basic stress and dynamic analyses (hand calcs, simple FEM) to support and inform structures designs including joint design, basic stiffness analyses, etc.</li><li>Work with structural and thermal analysts to iterate your designs</li><li>Make economically sound choices for the company balancing the need to quickly demonstrate capability while understanding the path to scaled-up constellations (e.g Make vs Buy). </li><li>Create quick concepts that can be used to discuss and spur inspiration on the team in early phases of programs.</li><li>Contribute to maturing Muon’s mechanical engineering standards and culture</li><li>Design basic test fixtures to support development and environmental testing</li><li>Influence flight designs to ensure hardware is easy to both build and test</li></ul><h2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Required Qualifications<em> </em></span></h2><ul><li>7+ years experience designing/building/testing flight hardware in the Space industry, or similar in a related field such as Aero, Self Driving, etc.</li><li>Demonstrated proficiency in design of high-value, low volume systems, especially for use in low temperature, vacuum, clean room environments</li><li>Competence in one or more of the following: Structural mechanics and analysis, thermal management and modeling, TVAC, and vibration testing</li><li>Extensive documentation capabilities: build procedures, test plans, DOEs, in addition to design notebooks</li><li>A desire to change the way the world understands and reacts to climate and environmental data</li><li>B.S. or higher degree in Mechanical Engineering</li><li>7+ years using CAD for medium-large assembly management</li><li>Mastery of drawings; GTOLs, and BOMs, FAIs, tolerance budgets and mass budgets</li><li>Diligence in using ECOs and DCOs</li><li>Excellent communication, presentation, coordination skills &amp; curiosity</li><li>Dedication to drawing conclusions on the most important factors and data</li><li>Excited to work in a fast-paced environment with new opportunities each week</li><li>Experience managing external vendors for part prototyping and development</li><li>Materials selection capabilities beyond the typical 6061 or ABS/PC </li><li>Manufacturing processes beyond milling, molding, casting</li></ul><h2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Nice-to-have Skills</span></h2><ul><li>Familiarity with satellite payloads</li><li>Flight heritage of your designs</li><li>Experience with deployable hardware</li><li>Experience with reaction wheels, torque rods, star trackers, ADCS</li><li>Direct reports and management of engineers, technicians, and contractors</li><li>Usage of test equipment such as accelerometers, strain gauges, load cells, DAQs, thermocouples, vibration tables, thermal chambers</li><li>Mastery of inspection equipment</li><li>Qualification of external vendors and CMs</li><li>Experience designing and executing structural tests for spacecraft</li><li>Large assembly management in Solidworks PDM, Duro or other PLM</li><li>Google workspace; Sheets, Slides, Docs. Slack</li><li>Experience running structural analyses for spacecraft (FEMAP, ANSYS)</li><li>Optomechanical instrument design</li><li>Software skills in one or more of Python, Matlab, C, C++</li><li>Experience working on thermal management systems for spacecraft</li><li>Shipped hardware designed for spacecraft, aircraft, automotive or similar environments</li></ul><h1><span style="font-size:14pt;">Salary</span></h1><ul><li>The salary range for this role is $156K - $227K and will depend on a candidate's skills, geographic location, qualifications, and experience as defined during the interview process.</li></ul><div><h1><span style="font-size:14pt;">About Muon Space</span></h1><p><span style="font-size:12pt;">Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.</span></p><h1><span style="font-size:14pt;">Taking Care of Our Team</span></h1><p><span style="font-size:12pt;">At Muon salary is only part of our total compensation package. In addition to salary, we provide equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short &amp; long term disability and life insurance. We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;">Our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too.  Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. 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.</span></p><h1><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>ITAR/EAR Requirements</strong></span></h1><p><span style="font-size:12pt;">This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p></div>

<p>Muon is developing the world&rsquo;s most capable Earth-sensing satellite platform to power data-driven decisions in the Era of Climate Change.</p>

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Payload

<h1><span>About the role</span></h1><p>Muon seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our team. This role is responsible for the design, build, and test of spacecraft and/or large subsystems that Muon launches, specifically Solar Arrays. You’ll be at the frontlines of implementation, working with the mission formulation team to understand the customer needs and lay out a space vehicle that solves those needs. You’ll pull internally developed ‘off the shelf’ parts from our avionics team, or source them externally, or design new items in-house. You’ll then develop those parts into full systems, and consider the mechanical, thermal, structural, and dynamics of the full flight system. You’ll be tasked to lead decisions on make vs buy for hardware and to conduct risk analyses. Documentation of the designs will be paramount, presenting them internally and to external customers.</p><p>You’ll be responsible for a portfolio of core technology and are expected to lead architecture definition, establish standards, process, and best practices for team and external stakeholders. As such, you will define roadmaps with 1 year+ horizon.</p><p>The ideal candidate can go deep on design and analysis but also has a “systems mindset” and will be a force multiplier collaborating with other disciplines to arrive at an elegant, well-balanced design.&nbsp; Being an early-stage startup with a small team, breadth is extremely important and we expect this person to dive into structural data, dynamics, thermal design, supplier management and everything else associated with the full lifecycle of an electromechanical product.&nbsp;</p><p><strong><em>Due to the hands-on nature of this role, it does require onsite work at our Mountain View location</em></strong>.</p><h2><span>Responsibilities</span></h2><ul><li>Create, analyze, and refine spacecraft mechanical design in a modern CAD package (Solidworks)</li><li>Find solutions and manage development of clean-sheet mechanical / structures architectures through detailed design consistent with the risk posture, development velocity and deployment schedules at Muon</li><li>Ownership of delivery of mechanical vehicles and subsystems, acting on multidisciplinary designs between launch provider, analysts, avionics, program, thermal, optical, and RF engineers</li><li>Perform basic stress and dynamic analyses (hand calcs, simple FEM) to support and inform structures designs including joint design, basic stiffness analyses, etc.</li><li>Work with structural and thermal analysts to iterate your designs</li><li>Make economically sound choices for the company balancing the need to quickly demonstrate capability while understanding the path to scaled-up constellations (e.g Make vs Buy).&nbsp;</li><li>Create quick concepts that can be used to discuss and spur inspiration on the team in early phases of programs.</li><li>Contribute to maturing Muon’s mechanical engineering standards and culture</li><li>Design basic test fixtures to support development and environmental testing</li><li>Influence flight designs to ensure hardware is easy to both build and test</li></ul><h2><span>Required Qualifications<em>&nbsp;</em></span></h2><ul><li>7+ years experience designing/building/testing flight hardware in the Space industry, or similar in a related field such as Aero, Self Driving, etc.</li><li>Demonstrated proficiency in design of high-value, low volume systems, especially for use in low temperature, vacuum, clean room environments</li><li>Competence in one or more of the following: Structural mechanics and analysis, thermal management and modeling, TVAC, and vibration testing</li><li>Extensive documentation capabilities: build procedures, test plans, DOEs, in addition to design notebooks</li><li>A desire to change the way the world understands and reacts to climate and environmental data</li><li>B.S. or higher degree in Mechanical Engineering</li><li>7+ years using CAD for medium-large assembly management</li><li>Mastery of drawings; GTOLs, and BOMs, FAIs, tolerance budgets and mass budgets</li><li>Diligence in using ECOs and DCOs</li><li>Excellent communication, presentation, coordination skills &amp; curiosity</li><li>Dedication to drawing conclusions on the most important factors and data</li><li>Excited to work in a fast-paced environment with new opportunities each week</li><li>Experience managing external vendors for part prototyping and development</li><li>Materials selection capabilities beyond the typical 6061 or ABS/PC&nbsp;</li><li>Manufacturing processes beyond milling, molding, casting</li></ul><h2><span>Nice-to-have Skills</span></h2><ul><li>Familiarity with satellite payloads</li><li>Flight heritage of your designs</li><li>Experience with deployable hardware</li><li>Experience with reaction wheels, torque rods, star trackers, ADCS</li><li>Direct reports and management of engineers, technicians, and contractors</li><li>Usage of test equipment such as accelerometers, strain gauges, load cells, DAQs, thermocouples, vibration tables, thermal chambers</li><li>Mastery of inspection equipment</li><li>Qualification of external vendors and CMs</li><li>Experience designing and executing structural tests for spacecraft</li><li>Large assembly management in Solidworks PDM, Duro or other PLM</li><li>Google workspace; Sheets, Slides, Docs. Slack</li><li>Experience running structural analyses for spacecraft (FEMAP, ANSYS)</li><li>Optomechanical instrument design</li><li>Software skills in one or more of Python, Matlab, C, C++</li><li>Experience working on thermal management systems for spacecraft</li><li>Shipped hardware designed for spacecraft, aircraft, automotive or similar environments</li></ul><h1><span>Salary</span></h1><ul><li>The salary range for this role is $156K - $227K and will depend on a candidate's skills, geographic location, qualifications, and experience as defined during the interview process.</li></ul><div><h1><span>About Muon Space</span></h1><p><span>Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.</span></p><h1><span>Taking Care of Our Team</span></h1><p><span>At Muon salary is only part of our total compensation package. In addition to salary, we provide equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short &amp; long term disability and life insurance. We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.</span></p><p><span>Our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too.&nbsp; Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. 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.</span></p><h1><span><strong>ITAR/EAR Requirements</strong></span></h1><p><span>This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p></div>

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