Software Engineer, Frontend at Muon Space
San Jose, CA
$156,000–$186,000from the description
Jul 15, 2026
San Jose, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A frontend engineering role focused on building and maintaining a unified web platform used by satellite operators and internal teams to manage constellation operations, contact scheduling, and mission tasking. Work spans the full feature lifecycle — design, implementation, deployment, and ongoing reliability — within a TypeScript monorepo. Suits an experienced frontend engineer comfortable with complex, fast-moving codebases and cross-team collaboration.
Senior level · 5+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,600 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,700–9,800
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title 'Software Engineer' carries no explicit level word, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; however, the 5+ years requirement and end-to-end ownership scope support a Senior classification.
The BS/MS degree requirement is paired with 'OR equivalent industry experience', so no minimum degree is hard-gated.
TypeScript is listed in the required qualifications with 'strongly-typed frontend languages such as TypeScript or Flow' — the substitution qualifier means Flow is an acceptable alternative, but the capability itself is a hard gate.
CI/CD and static analysis enforcement are explicitly called out in the required qualifications section; Git/revision management is similarly required.
All Nice-to-have skills (AI coding tools, SSR/RSC, 3D, geospatial, monorepo, accessibility libraries, observability tooling, aerospace domain knowledge, CI/CD authoring tools) are listed under the explicit 'Nice-to-have Skills' heading.
The role is hybrid (3 days/week on-site in San Jose, CA) — not fully remote.
ITAR/EAR restrictions apply; candidates must be US persons or otherwise eligible — no formal security clearance is required, but export-control eligibility is gated.
The '3D applications' and 'interactive mapping/geospatial data visualization' nice-to-haves are domain-specific to satellite constellation operations; no specific named 3D library (e.g., Three.js, CesiumJS) is called out in the posting.
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