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Staff Mechanical Engineer - Solar Mechanisms & Deployables

Muon Space · San Jose, CA
$190K - $216KOpen 106 daysEquityParental leaveLead

Staff Mechanical Engineer - Solar Mechanisms & Deployables is open at Muon Space in San Jose, CA. The posting gives a salary of $190K - $216K. Posted on Jul 31, 2026, and still on Muon Space’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.

About the role

Muon seeks a Staff Mechanisms Design Engineer to own the design, qualification, and sustainment of the deployable and actuated mechanical systems that power our spacecraft: solar array deployables, solar array drive assemblies (SADA), hold-down and release mechanisms (HDRMs), hinges, dampers, and latches. These are mission-critical, single-point-failure systems, and this role owns them from requirements definition…

The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Muon Space’s careers page.

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