Senior Systems Engineer, EO/IR Payloads
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Muon SpaceSpace systems
Location: RemoteFull-TimeSenior
Salary$151,000-209,000 plus a competitive equity grant
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience working as a systems or instrument engineer
- Required Skills
- Python
Requirements
- Hold a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in an engineering field, Physics, Optical Sciences, or have equivalent experience.
- Have 5+ years of experience working as a systems or instrument engineer.
- Bring deep technical knowledge of EO/IR payload engineering.
- Have a background in infrared, multispectral, hyperspectral, or similar remote sensing phenomenologies.
- Have experience with EO/IR and related space missions across government and commercial markets.
- Demonstrate systems engineering capability in requirements development, simulation/modeling, and detailed technical analysis.
- Have software skills in one or more languages such as Python, Julia, or MATLAB for modeling, simulation, and data analysis.
- Be able to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance; active clearance is strongly preferred.
- Be able to travel 25–30%.
- Familiarity with early-stage business development, strategic capture, and customer discovery is a nice-to-have.
- Experience developing radiometric models or scene simulations is a nice-to-have.
- Hands-on experience with rapid prototyping, experimental payloads, or capability demonstrations is a nice-to-have.
- Familiarity with space systems development, especially small satellite remote sensing architectures, is a nice-to-have.
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize, analyze, demonstrate, and experiment with EO/IR payload concepts and related technologies.
- Develop system and payload requirements, advanced simulations, models, and technical analyses for early-stage concepts and use cases.
- Identify novel imaging modes and operational use cases for stakeholder and customer challenges.
- Drive and support early-stage R&D activities and proposals as Principal Investigator.
- Partner with Product and Applied Science to translate early-stage ideas into technical architectures and demonstrations.
- Evaluate technical trades, radiometric models, and system budgets for unconventional applications.
- Perform feasibility studies, literature reviews, and trade studies for mission, instrument, and data concepts.
- Support customer discovery, capability demonstrations, and proposal generation with EO/IR systems engineering analysis.
- Create technical proposals, white papers, and concept studies to inform R&D roadmaps.
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