Staff Mechanical Engineer (Spacecraft Components)

Muon, an early-stage space technology company, as a Staff Mechanical Engineer. In this role, you will be the technical owner for spacecraft mechanisms and components design, manage single-point-failure, and oversee component qualification.

Responsibilities

• You will work across engineering, production, and program management, and own the mechanical direction of your spacecraft component or mechanisms from requirements definition through design, build, test, and launch-vehicle integration.
• You will also lead design reviews, environmental test campaigns, and contribute to maturing Muon's mechanical engineering standards and culture.
• Assumer la responsabilité technique de la conception des mécanismes et des composants des engins spatiaux, en gérant les points de défaillance unique.
• Diriger la portion mécanique des revues de conception internes et externes, et diriger les campagnes d'essai environnemental des composants/sous-systèmes.
• Établir l'architecture mécanique au niveau de la plateforme, définir des campagnes d'essai complexes et posséder des conceptions sur plusieurs missions concurrentes.
• Familiarity with satellite payloads and mission-level mechanical integration
• Experience optimizing and maturing existing designs (not only clean-sheet development)

Requirements

• The ideal candidate can go deep on design while carrying a "systems mindset" — a force multiplier who collaborates across disciplines to arrive at an elegant, well-balanced design
• Excellent communication, presentation, and cross-functional coordination skills
• Customer-facing experience: technical interchanges, requirements discussions, or proposal contributions
• Demonstrated experience creating technical documents (ESOW, Technical Specification, DFMEA, Test Verification Plan)
• Proficiency in CAD (SolidWorks preferred) for medium-to-large assembly design and management
• Demonstrated proficiency leading mechanical design for complex electromechanical systems
• B.S. or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field
• Experience owning a components used across platform, product line, or major subsystems
• 10+ years of experience designing, building, and testing high-reliability hardware
• Mastery of drawings, GD&T, BOMs, FAIs, tolerance budgets, and mass budgets
• Recognized depth in a specialty (e.g., Mechanisms, Composites, or Dynamics) with industry references
• Experience managing external vendors for part prototyping and development

Software skills in Python, MATLAB, or similar

• Experience running structural analyses (FEMAP, ANSYS, NASTRAN) and environmental testing
• Flight heritage on the following components: Gimbaled Devices, Separation/Launch Interface, Electrical Modules, Battery Packs, Reaction Wheel, CMG, Magnetorquer, Star Trackers, Propulsion, Radiators, Instrument Packaging, Instrument Scan Mechanisms
• Experience with thermal management systems for spacecraft

Preferred

• Strong mentorship skills
• Experience with ECO/DCO processes and PLM systems
• Large-assembly management in SolidWorks PDM; PLM systems (Duro or similar)

Pay

USD 202,000 - 223,000

• Extensive documentation capabilities: build procedures, test plans, design trades, DOEs
• We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application!
• Qualifying mechanisms to NASA-STD-5017, ECSS, or equivalent