Staff Software Engineer Clearance, Flight Software

Muon seeks a Flight Software Engineer to join our satellite flight software team. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated versatile software developer with significant previous experience developing robust bare-metal / RTOS embedded devices or appliances. In this role, you will design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware that runs on our orbiting satellites. This role may be remote or located at our headquarters in San Jose, California.

• Integral member of the team defining and building Muon’s satellite bus and payload platform

• Translate concepts and requirements into design and working implementations, supporting through to on-orbit operations

• Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment that runs in our satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs.

• Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for our software foundation

• Provide technical leadership to key projects, organizing cross-functional teams to deliver mission critical capabilities

• Develop application, platform, and driver functionality in our flight software environment and teach others how to use it

• Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems in both software and hardware

• Develop technical strategy documents for an entire organization or multiple teams, including architectural patterns, shared libraries, and common services.

• Collaborate with hardware team members on the design and bring up of Muon hardware

• Collaborate with software team members to set flight software architecture, select infrastructure and tools, and communicate with cloud backends.

• Participate in developing software and hardware-in-the-loop test strategies

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field

• 7+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment

• Strong C/C++ programming, with some practical familiarity of other languages

• Great embedded systems fundamentals: resource-efficient design, low-level drivers, bit manipulation, responsive software and IRQ handling, RTOS frameworks, I/O and communication buses.

• Integration and control of external hardware devices

• Read and understand hardware data sheets

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Experience working on government/defense projects

• Current TS security clearance

Nice-to-have Skills

• Experience working in flight software or some closely related domain

• Knowledge of industry-standard data formats and schemas (ProtoBuf, YAML, JSON, etc)

• Rust and Python experience

• Familiarity with a Linux-based development environment

• Experience with one or more of: embedded linux, FPGA, HW design, RF communication systems, network architecture.

• End-to-end development from product concept to delivery to customer/market.

The salary range for this role is $228,000 - $252,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process.

Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster