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Staff Mechanical Engineer - Spacecraft Components

Muon Space Inc · San Jose, California, United States

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This employer recently closed a federal science award ($5.1M) in 2025 — funded companies hire ahead of their postings. Muon Space Inc's funding and open roles · all recently funded employers.

About the role

About the role Muon seeks a Staff Mechanical Engineer to be a technical owner for spacecraft mechanisms and components design; own single-point-failure management (margin, redundancy, test coverage); own component qualification (deployment, life, and environmental testing). 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. You'll start from Muon's platform building blocks, tailor and design hardware to meet mission needs, and pull in the right stakeholders (structu

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