Dept:Operations

About the role

Muon seeks a Technical Program Manager to join our team and help run cutting-edge internal R&D and customer programs. The ideal candidate is able to develop, maintain, and communicate our highly dynamic development schedules. Our timelines are extremely aggressive, which would require the candidate to be comfortable with working on complex multidisciplinary projects in a fast-paced environment. This role will require being local to the Bay Area.

Responsibilities

• Help build schedules for all internal and customer facing programs. Facilitate and drive weekly schedule reviews with responsible engineers, ensuring the plan is accurate and up to date at all times.

• Coordinate, maintain, communicate, and present the critical path schedules and schedule narratives to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Maintain and perform schedule risk review to identify program criticality and uncertainty.

• Quickly understand Muon’s workflows and constraints for hardware and software development, testing, vehicle build and operations for both ongoing and upcoming projects

• Devise, maintain, and improve scheduling tools and processes that identify, review, and report progress and potential constraints on a regular basis

• Track and report program metrics on schedule, resource, cost, risk, and technical performance

• Learn our engineering, production, and launch site operations with sufficient depth such that you are able to critically evaluate them and offer process improvements.

Qualifications

• B.S. in an engineering discipline, M.S. preferred

• 1-2 years relevant experience in engineering or technical program management

• Track record of successfully delivering complete systems (hardware, firmware, software, algorithms) on time, to scope, with high quality.

• Experience in development and/or program management of complex multidisciplinary systems.

• Expertise in modern, cloud-based productivity tools

• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with ability to work successfully across all engineering disciplines.

• Experience in vendor and contract management

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Excited to work in a fast-paced environment with new challenges each week

Nice-to-have Skills

• System engineering and experience with inter-discipline technical tradestudy

• Experience working with scripting languages (e.g. Python, Julia) and database queries (e..g SQL, BigQuery) for data integration, analysis, and dashboarding.

• Experience in a fast-paced, startup environment

• Experience managing and growing teams

About Muon Space

Muon Space is working at the forefront of satellites, advanced sensors, business intelligence, and climate science to allow humanity to close the loop on climate change. From satellite missions to modeling to data analytics and actionable insights, we believe measuring, understanding and predicting Earth’s complex, coupled systems is both a great business opportunity and key to leaving future generations a livable, productive and healthy planet.

This role will require being local to the Bay Area.

Equal Opportunity

At Muon, our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too. Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. If you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

At Muon Space salary is only part of our total compensation package. In addition to salary, Muon Space provides equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, life insurance, and an employee development program.

The salary range for this role is $95K to $125k and will depend on a candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience as defined during the interview process.

ITAR/EAR Requirements:

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or Export Administration Regulations (EAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S. protected person as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.