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Staff Software Engineer Clearance, Flight Software

Muon Space · Northern VA

Posted Sep 15, 2026

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About the role

Muon seeks a Flight Software Engineer to join our satellite flight software team. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated versatile software developer with significant previous experience developing robust bare-metal / RTOS embedded devices or appliances. In this role, you will design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware that runs on our orbiting satellites.

Responsibilities

Integral member of the team defining and building Muon’s satellite bus and payload platform

Translate concepts and requirements into design and working implementations, supporting through to on-orbit operations

Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment that runs in our satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs.

Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for our software foundation

Provide technical leadership to key projects, organizing cross-functional teams to deliver mission critical capabilities

Develop application, platform, and driver functionality in our flight software environment and teach others how to use it

Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems in both software and hardware

Develop technical strategy documents for an entire organization or multiple teams, including architectural patterns, shared libraries, and common services.

Collaborate with hardware team members on the design and bring up of Muon hardware …

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