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Software Engineer, Flight Software

Muon Space· Engineering - Software
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San Jose, CA$190k - $212kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Flight Software Engineer for Muon Space's satellite flight software team. Designs, develops, integrates, and tests software/firmware for orbiting satellites, with emphasis on embedded systems using ARM Cortex-M CPUs.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Integration and control of external hardware devices
  • Read and understand hardware data sheets
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

Skills

Required:C/C++Embedded systemsHardware integration
Nice to have:Software architecture

Benefits

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

About Muon Space

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