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Software Engineer, Flight Dynamics

Job Overview

Location

San Jose, CA

Job Type

Full-time

Category

Software Engineering

Date Posted

April 14, 2026

Full Job Description

📋 Description

  • • As a Flight Dynamics Software Engineer at Muon Space, you will play a critical role in ensuring the success of Earth-observation satellite missions by developing and maintaining the software that determines and predicts spacecraft orbits.
  • • Your day-to-day responsibilities will include operating and evolving the orbit determination pipeline, resolving OD anomalies, supporting orbit propagation for mission planning and collision avoidance, automating flight dynamics workflows, contributing to the Muon Flight Dynamics Software (MuFDS), and collaborating with systems and operations teams on maneuver planning.
  • • You will join Muon Space’s Mission Planning Platform team, working closely with the flight dynamics lead to support the company’s constellation of LEO Earth-observation satellites, where precision in orbit knowledge directly impacts mission success and data quality.
  • • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in astrodynamics and flight dynamics software, gain end-to-end experience in spacecraft ground systems, and contribute to advancing autonomous constellation operations in a fast-paced, innovative space technology environment.

Skills & Technologies

Python
Linux
Remote

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About Muon Space, Inc.

Muon Space designs, builds and operates high-resolution Earth-observation microsatellite constellations equipped with multispectral and infrared sensors. The company delivers near-real-time geospatial data and analytics for agriculture, climate monitoring, disaster response and national security customers. Its vertically integrated approach combines spacecraft engineering, sensor payloads and cloud-based data fusion to enable daily revisit rates and meter-level imagery. Founded in 2021, the San Mateo-based startup serves U.S. government agencies and commercial partners seeking actionable environmental intelligence.

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