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​​Platform Engineer, Onboard Compute

Muon Space· Engineering - Software
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Hybrid (San Jose, CA)$190k - $212kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Platform Engineer role owning the shared technical foundation for the High Performance Compute (HPC) team, including build flows, test environments, delivery pipelines, and planning/reporting to keep multiple compute missions cohesive and scalable. Hybrid on-site in San Jose, CA three days a week.

Responsibilities

  • Platform, Build & Delivery - Maintain and evolve build flows, test environments, and delivery/integration pipelines for FPGA and GPU code; ensure reproducible, reliable, fast turnaround from commit to lab-ready artifact.
  • Own toolchain environments (synthesis, simulation, cross-compilation, containerized builds) and keep them up-to-date, documented, and consistent across engineers.
  • Manage complexity of delivering into a growing variety of missions; promote shared components to minimize variations.
  • Planning, Delivery & the Intersection Between Them - Align planning with actual building/delivery; evolve together as teamMission grows.
  • Own the team's roadmap in Jira: keep it accurate and trackable; enable on-demand snapshot reporting for progress, priorities, and resource utilization.
  • Partner with tech leads and engineers to estimate incoming work for missions and inbound requests.
  • Establish and track planning-accuracy metrics to improve estimation quality.
  • Publish weekly reports on team health for internal and cross-company audiences; be the single source of truth for status, progress, and Jira reporting for Onboard Compute.
  • Knowledge & Enablement - Own the team's Confluence space; ensure it reflects actual work and supports engineers contributing content.
  • Partner with engineering managers to maintain onboarding and training material including tooling, build-flow, and platform documentation.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, plus 3+ years of professional engineering experience.
  • Hands-on development experience with FPGA and/or GPU workflows, including synthesis/compile toolchains, simulation/profiling environments, and build/release pipelines; direct experience on both is a strong plus; deep experience on one and willingness to learn the other acceptable.
  • Experience owning or significantly contributing to build systems, test environments, and integration pipelines for embedded or hardware-adjacent codebases.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage variation and complexity across multiple products, missions, or configurations; define shared components, reference flows, or platform contracts to reduce one-off work.
  • Comfort scripting to automate toolchains, orchestrate pipelines, and generate reports.
  • Fluency with Jira (epics/stories, dashboards, JQL, reporting) and Confluence.
  • Proven ability to drive estimation and planning discussions with engineers; translate technical work into clear roadmaps and reports for non-engineering stakeholders.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to make complex work legible to executives, adjacent teams, and new hires.

Skills

Required:FPGA and/or GPU workflowsBuild systemsPlanning & estimationJira & ConfluenceAutomation & scripting

Benefits

  • equity grant
  • 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.

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