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Principal Software Engineer, Mission Design

Muon Space· Engineering - Software
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Hybrid (San Jose, CA)$266k - $298kfull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Role focused on synthesizing the full Muon software architecture and roadmap to design software solutions for missions, guiding architectural standards, and aligning with business, product, systems, and hardware teams. On-site presence preferred in San Jose, CA three days/week with flexibility for right candidate.

Responsibilities

  • Work with Business Development to prioritize, design and align on staffing for high-impact small projects and guide them to successful impact.
  • Ensure major, common customer needs are captured in organizational plans and the Product Roadmap.
  • Act as part of the group with stewardship over architectural standards and guardrails, ensuring high engineering velocity, security, reliability and performance.
  • Support Customer Solutions Software Engineers in customer engagements and escalate important discussions and design questions; act as an accelerator for the group.
  • Ensure Software organizational plans and roadmaps for missions align with the company's strategic framework.
  • Help to define training plans for software engineering.

Qualifications

  • Expertise in whole-system design, holistic testing and deployment strategy, and state-of-the-art software engineering methodology
  • Extensive knowledge of theory and practice across aerospace, robotics or an adjacent domain
  • Excellent negotiation skills in both organizational and technical contexts
  • Expertise in multiple programming languages
  • Expertise in distributed systems theory and practice

Skills

Required:Whole-system design and software engineering methodologyaerospace / robotics domain knowledgenegotiationprogramming languages (multiple)distributed systems

Benefits

  • comprehensive benefits package (medical, dental, vision)
  • equity compensation
  • 401k retirement plan
  • short & long term disability and life insurance
  • three weeks paid vacation, twelve paid holidays, unlimited sick time, paid parental leave
Last updated Oct 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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