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Staff Mechanical Engineer - Spacecraft Mechanical Design Technical Lead

Muon Space · San Jose, CA

Posted about 2 months ago · $202,000 - $223,000

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
71 days
Muon Space's roles stay open a median of 78 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
Yes
88% of Muon Space's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Muon Space
high
113 stale, 2 reposted of 115 open
Hiring momentum
131 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-24

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Muon Space's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Muon Space.

About this role

The Staff Mechanical Engineer at Muon will lead the mechanical design for satellite classes, overseeing the architecture and design from requirements definition to launch integration. This role involves hands-on design, analysis, and optimization of spacecraft structures, as well as mentoring a small team of engineers. The position requires onsite work in San Jose three days a week and includes collaboration with customers and cross-functional teams.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Muon Space as an employer.

What you need

  • 10+ years of experience designing, building, and testing flight hardware in space or other related industry
  • Experience owning a spacecraft platform, product line, or major subsystem across multiple missions or products
  • Proven track record of optimizing and maturing existing designs
  • Deep competence in structural mechanics and analysis, thermal management and modeling, environmental testing
  • Mastery of drawings, GD&T, BOMs, FAIs, tolerance budgets, and mass budgets; proficiency with CAD (SolidWorks preferred), PLM, and FEA tools
  • Customer-facing experience: technical interchanges, requirements discussions, or proposal contributions

Nice to have

  • Experience as a platform owner or product-line technical lead at a space company
  • Direct contributions to winning proposals
  • Experience establishing engineering standards and best practices at an organizational level
  • Experience with deployable structures (solar arrays, antennas, mechanisms)
  • Optomechanical instrument or payload design experience

What you get

  • Salary range of $190,000 - $216,000
  • Competitive equity grant
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k retirement plan
  • Short & long term disability and life insurance
  • Three weeks paid vacation for new employees

Worth weighing

  • Onsite work required three days a week in San Jose
  • Role includes potential people management responsibilities
  • Hands-on nature of the role may limit remote work flexibility

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Listed by Muon Space on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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