Senior Director of Spacecraft Structure & Mission Hardware
About the role
Muon seeks an experienced leader to guide our Bus Structure and Missions team through our next stage of rapid growth. This team has a large scope including designing & owning our spacecraft bus structures, GSE, testbeds, and tailoring each to specific mission needs. The role reports to Muon’s Senior Director of Hardware Engineering and has strong talent in mechanical, thermal, structural, and electrical engineering reporting to them.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned, cross-disciplined leader who is experienced at organizing and scaling rapidly growing teams and has strong program management skills. Experience with designing and manufacturing low volume, high mix products efficiently is a must.
This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team to architect, design, analyze, and qualify a catalog of bus platforms to meet a wide range of mission requirements.
- Collaborate with Product, Business Development, System Engineering, Software Engineering, Operations, and more to ensure buses meet the needs of our growing portfolio of customer missions.
- Collaborate with Mission Management and our customers to understand mission specific and instrume
