Staff Mission Lead Systems Engineer - RF Systems
Muon Space
· Northern VA
· Oct 9, 2026
About the Role
Responsibilities:
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Partner with the Mission Architecture team during study efforts to develop mission concepts, run architecture trade studies, and shape technical baselines for prospective missions and proposal responses.
Requirements:
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Serve as the ultimate technical authority for your designated mission, leading the conceptualization, design, and development of the mission. Drive critical cross-functional technical trades and decisions to ensure mission success.
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Lead the tailoring and implementation of the Muon mission design process for your designated mission, ensuring alignment with program needs, while contributing to process refinement across all missions.
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Own the translation of customer objectives and stakeholder needs into clear, verifiable, and actionable technical requirements for your designated mission.
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Serve as the primary technical point of contact for your designated mission, interfacing with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders on all technical matters.
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Define mission CONOPS and manage subsystem budgets (e.g., power, data, mass, pointing/stability).
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Identify and mitigate internal and external mission risks, communicating impacts effectively.
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Assess and coordinate design changes across disciplines throughout the program lifecycle.
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Lead design, test readiness, and flight readiness reviews.
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Foster deep collaboration with and provide technical direction to systems, hardware, software, data, ground segment, and operations teams for your designated mission, and support these interactions across other missions.
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Effectively serve as the Mission Lead Systems Engineer for one mission while contributing general systems engineering expertise and support to other Muon missions, potentially deputizing for other Mission Lead Systems Engineers as needed.
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Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in mission development and operations.
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Direct engineering experience with RF systems — e.g., RF payload/instrument design, link budget analysis, spectrum and regulatory considerations, and mission-level RF architecture trades.
Clearance Required: TS/SCI
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- Company
- Muon Space
- Location
- Northern VA
- Job Type
- Full-time
- Category
- RF / Microwave
- Posted
- Oct 9, 2026
- Source
- Original posting ↗