End-to-end satellite constellation builder for defense and civil missions
Muon Space designs and operates mission-optimized satellite constellations with an integrated stack spanning spacecraft platforms, payload management, and software-defined orchestration. The engineering-heavy org (30 of 48 open roles) is tackling deep reliability and manufacturability challenges—reducing design risk, establishing in-house test capabilities, and accelerating pipeline velocity—while actively adopting SAP and Oracle, suggesting a scaling phase from startup ops to enterprise-grade manufacturing and financial controls.
Notable leadership hires: Chief of Staff
Muon Space is an end-to-end space systems company founded in 2021, headquartered in Mountain View, California, with 201–500 employees. The company designs, builds, and operates satellite constellations for defense, civil, commercial, and national security customers. The technical stack spans Python, C++, Rust, Kubernetes, and AWS on the software side, with specialized aerospace tooling (RTOS, CAN, Ethernet, Thermal Desktop, GNU Radio) embedded across flight software, ground processing, and simulation. Current focus areas include core flight software development, ground-processing algorithms, satellite commissioning, and test automation—with active pressure to reduce design risk, improve manufacturability, and shorten test turnaround times.
Python, C++, Rust, Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB, plus aerospace-specific tools: RTOS, CAN, Ethernet, Thermal Desktop, GNU Radio, and MATLAB. Adopting SAP and Oracle for enterprise operations.
Core flight software, ground-processing algorithms, satellite commissioning, simulation software, test frameworks, and geolocation processing pipelines. Also developing tools to improve test efficiency and reduce manual work.
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