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Senior Technical Program Manager - Commercial Payloads

Muon Space· Mission Management
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Hybrid (San Jose, CA)$206k - $232kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Technical Program Manager to lead Muon Space’s Programs, delivering solutions and technology while managing cost and schedule baselines for U.S. Government and Commercial contracts. Leads cross-functional teams, supports business development, and ensures on-time, on-budget delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a multidisciplinary aerospace development effort, driving day-to-day execution of the program
  • Engage with internal and external stakeholders to plan and coordinate the resources necessary to execute the program
  • Synchronize a diverse technical team by establishing tools, practices, and process
  • Participate in technical discussions, ask probing questions, and work with the team to pull together scoping, schedules, and solutions to issues
  • Track and report program metrics on schedule, resource, cost, risk, and technical performance
  • Serve as the face of the company to customers, subcontractors and suppliers

Qualifications

  • 5+ years relevant experience in program management
  • B.S. in an engineering discipline, M.S. or Ph.D. preferred
  • Track record of successfully delivering complete systems (hardware, firmware, software, algorithms) on time, to scope, with high quality
  • Experience in development and/or program management of satellite based systems. Ability to instantiate and manage integrated master schedules
  • Expertise in modern, cloud-based productivity tools
  • Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with ability to work successfully across all engineering disciplines
  • Experience in vendor and contract management

Skills

Required:Program managementSystems engineering coordinationVendor and contract management

Benefits

  • equity compensation
  • 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 and paid parental leave
Last updated Oct 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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