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Engineering Manager, Mission Electrical

Muon Space· Engineering - Hardware
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Hybrid (San Jose, CA)$192k - $212kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager leading a team of electrical engineers to tailor Muon's spacecraft platforms for specific missions. Combines hands-on technical review with people management, focusing on electrical customization, integration, and mission delivery. Hybrid role based in San Jose, CA.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of electrical engineers customizing Muon's spacecraft platforms for specific missions; plan resourcing across concurrent missions and hire as the team scales
  • Invest in developing early-career engineers through coaching, design feedback, and growth planning
  • Own the electrical deliverables for assigned missions - from requirements through design adaptation, build, integration, and test
  • Works with the harnessing to define harness definition, routing, documentation, and payload electrical interfaces
  • Work with mission formulation and systems teams to translate customer needs into electrical solutions that reuse common platform hardware where possible or feed improvements back into the platform baseline
  • Review schematics and interface designs, support bring-up, and debug hardware issues to root cause alongside the team
  • Set and uphold engineering standards for the team - documentation, ECO/DCO discipline, and test procedures
  • Partner with mechanical, software, systems, and production teams to ensure successful integration, manufacturability, and test

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience designing, integrating, or testing complex electrical systems that operate in harsh environments (spacecraft, aviation, automotive, robotics, or similar)
  • 2+ years managing or technically leading engineering teams
  • Strong ability to read, understand, and debug electrical designs
  • Solid understanding of spacecraft or complex-system electronics: avionics, power distribution, harnessing, and hardware/software integration
  • Experience with electrical harness design, documentation, and integration
  • Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design tools (e.g., Altium, Cadence/OrCAD) and standard lab equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies)
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and presentation skills; ability to move fluidly between team leadership and hands-on engineering
  • B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Skills

Required:Electrical system designLeadership / people managementSchematic capture and PCB designHarness design and integrationSystem integration collaborationDebug and root-cause analysis

Benefits

  • equity grant
  • comprehensive benefits package
  • medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k retirement plan
  • short & long term disability and life insurance
  • three weeks paid vacation
  • 12 paid holidays
  • unlimited sick time
  • paid parental leave
Last updated Sep 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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