Senior Director, EO/IR Instrument Engineering
About the role
Muon seeks a Senior Director of EO/IR Instrument Engineering to lead the strategy, development, and delivery of our electro-optical and infrared instrument portfolio, from system architecture through on-orbit calibration. In this role, you will build, mentor, and guide a multidisciplinary engineering organization that is roughly doubling in size, while establishing the technical direction and operational rigor needed to scale across a growing portfolio of flight programs. As a senior technical and organizational leader, you will own instrument performance, cost, schedule, and overall business outcomes, ensuring alignment between engineering execution and mission objectives. Reporting to the SVP of Mission Execution, you will serve on the Mission Execution leadership team, shaping Muon’s EO/IR strategy, developing organizational capabilities, and driving the successful execution of our instrument portfolio.
This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our Mountain View, CA office three days per week.
Responsibilities
- Set EO/IR strategy for the company
- Define which EO/IR missions and markets Muon pursues, in partnership with the executive team and Growth.
- Own the multi-year investment plan for instrument technology, lab and test infrastructure, and the or
