Full-Time
Director of Supply Chain
Updated on 9/4/2026
Muon Space
201-500 employees
End-to-end satellite constellations design and operation
Compensation Overview
$203k - $219k/yr
No H1B Sponsorship
San Jose, CA, USA
Hybrid
Three days on-site per week required.
Bachelor's
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- A bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, or a related field is required.
- At least 10 years of progressive supply chain experience, including at least 5 years leading and building supply chain teams and managing managers, is required.
- Demonstrated experience in a manufacturing environment, ideally aerospace, satellite, complex electromechanical, or other high-mix, regulated hardware production, is required.
- Proven success establishing supply chain operating models, processes, and key performance indicators from an early or immature baseline is required.
- Deep expertise across procurement, strategic sourcing and supplier development, materials and production planning, including material requirements planning, and inventory management is required.
- A strong track record of proactive supply chain risk management, including obsolescence, sole-source dependencies, and geopolitical impacts, is required.
- The role requires the ability to collaborate cross-functionally, balance supply chain and manufacturing needs against engineering velocity, and build trust across stakeholders.
- The applicant must satisfy U.S. export-control eligibility requirements for access to export-controlled information: be a U.S. person, eligible without export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required authorization.
- Hold overall responsibility for executing the Supply Chain organization's mission across Purchasing, Planning, and Inventory Management.
- Define overall supply chain operating models and interfaces with teams across the company.
- Ensure the supply chain organization has the tools, capabilities, and capacity to fulfill business objectives.
- Provide input into the phased build-out of the organization and help prioritize and implement dedicated functional leads as mission volume and production complexity grow.
- Coordinate and improve end-to-end, cross-functional supply chain processes.
- Ensure accountability for performance within each supply chain function.
- Work with functional leads to implement management principles so teams remain focused and prioritized.
- Define, monitor, and manage overall supply chain and individual-function key performance indicators.
- Collaborate on cross-functional processes that balance supply chain and manufacturing requirements with engineering needs and engineering velocity.
- Manage near-term and long-term supply chain risks, including obsolescence, sole-source dependencies, and geopolitical impacts.
- Assess and mitigate risks proactively and cultivate relationships with key vendors to ensure priority access.
- Architect and implement supply chain practices such as formal supplier assessment and onboarding, inventory excess and obsolescence review, and insourcing or outsourcing decisions.
- Own strategic sourcing and supplier development by building and managing a high-performing supplier base that delivers continuous improvement in cost, quality, delivery, and innovation.
- Identify and propose supplier engagement approaches that improve supply chain robustness and reduce risk.
- Lead or support strategic supplier engagement negotiations.
- Champion platform commonality by maximizing reuse of parts, suppliers, and processes across missions to drive cost efficiency and supply resilience.
- Synchronize with the design team to incorporate design changes into procurement plans without compromising mission delivery.
- Ensure Planning operates effectively at the center of Engineering Design Release, Material Procurement and Delivery, and Production Execution.
- Partner with Mission Management, Engineering, Finance, and Production to align material readiness with program delivery schedules.
- Experience scaling a supply chain from low-rate or prototype production to higher-volume serial production.
- Familiarity with aerospace and defense supply chain requirements, including AS9100, ITAR/EAR, counterfeit-part avoidance, traceability, and secure-program environments.
- Experience supporting vertical integration and make-versus-buy or insourcing decisions.
- Hands-on experience implementing or improving enterprise resource planning or material requirements planning systems and supply chain analytics.
- APICS/ASCM certifications such as CPIM or CSCP, ISM CPSM certification, or an equivalent certification.
What Muon Space does: It plans, builds, and runs satellite constellations to deliver Earth intelligence that helps protect people, climate, and ecosystems. How its product works: It offers end-to-end space systems as a service—creating mission strategies, deploying constellations, and operating them through its proprietary AI automation system. Revenue model and delivery: Customers pay transparently on a pay-as-you-go basis for the development, deployment, operation of the satellites, and the data generated. How it differs from competitors: It combines full lifecycle space systems with an AI-driven operations stack, offers flexible pay-as-you-go pricing, and relies on a team with deep experience from NASA, Google, and SpaceX to focus on solving client missions rather than selling hardware. The company’s goal: provide actionable Earth intelligence to improve climate protection, security, and resource management while reducing costs and speeding up access to space.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$441.2M
Headquarters
Mountain View, California
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Reuters reported $250 million Series C closed August 20, 2026, valuing Muon at $1.5 billion.
- Muon launched seven satellites in 2026, reaching 11 deployed across six launches.
- NOAA awarded Muon $11 million for microwave sounders on August 25, 2026.
What critics are saying
- Muon still depends on SpaceX rideshares, and Dyer is seeking alternative launch capacity.
- Defense work now drives growth, exposing Muon to U.S. procurement delays and cancellations.
- A launch failure or constellation outage would cripple trust before IPO plans.
What makes Muon Space unique
- Muon integrates mission design, manufacturing, launch, and operations into one platform.
- Its San Jose factory targets 500 satellites yearly by 2027, not bespoke builds.
- FireSat and Vindlér prove Muon sells complete constellations, not commodity buses.
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↑ 0%NOAA taps Muon Space, Weather Stream & Spire Global for microwave sounder Program. * NOAA awarded $46.5 million to Muon Space, Weather Stream and Spire Global * The companies will develop, launch and operate microwave sounding instruments * Microwave sounders collect atmospheric temperature, moisture and pressure data The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded $46.5 million to three companies to develop satellite instruments designed to provide atmospheric data for weather forecasting and extreme weather prediction, the agency announced Wednesday. Table of Contents Which companies received NOAA awards? Muon Space received $11 million, Orbital Micro Systems, doing business as Weather Stream, received $7.5 million and Spire Global Subsidiary received $28 million under the Temperature and Moisture Advanced Technology Evolution project. The 24-month effort, which began Aug. 25, is part of NOAA's Near Earth Orbit Network Program. The companies will each develop, launch and operate a microwave sounding instrument, with NOAA able to purchase the resulting data commercially. What are microwave sounders? Microwave sounders are satellite-based remote sensing tools designed to detect naturally occurring microwave emissions from molecules in the atmosphere. Data collected can be used to map atmospheric temperature, water vapor and pressure at different altitudes. Because microwave signals can pass through clouds, the instruments can gather observations when other sensors may be obstructed. How will NOAA use commercial partnerships? NOAA is using its other transaction authority to work with industry on developing future sources of weather data. The agency said the authority allows it to partner with companies to mature technology. The agency has also been working to bring public and private data sources into its forecasting environment. In March, NOAA awarded contracts to develop cloud-based environments capable of integrating data from both government and commercial sources. The microwave sounder awards are part of NOAA's work to develop a low-Earth orbit satellite architecture that relies on commercial partners and more frequent launches of small- to medium-sized satellites. The approach is intended to create a more resilient constellation that can be deployed quickly for weather forecasting and disaster management. The satellite effort adds to NOAA's broader push to modernize its weather-forecasting infrastructure through commercial technology. In July, the agency began moving its Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System to commercial cloud infrastructure, with Google Cloud serving as the primary provider.
Muon Space Series C pushes total equity funding past $386M. * Google, Salesforce Ventures and Wellington Management joined the round * Total equity funding has exceeded $386 million * A new San Jose plant is designed for up to 500 satellites a year by 2027 Muon Space has closed a $250 million Series C round, bringing total equity funding past $386 million. Eclipse led the financing, the satellite company said Thursday. Google, Salesforce Ventures, Wellington Management, Galvanize, I Squared Capital and Woven Capital joined as new investors, alongside returning backers, including Radical Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Activate Capital, ACME Capital, ArcTern Ventures and Overlap Holdings. Muon said the round was oversubscribed. What will Muon Space do with the Series C proceeds? The production of large-scale constellations and the expansion of the company's dual-use spacecraft platforms are the stated priorities. Muon also pointed to advanced payloads, on-orbit AI compute and high-bandwidth satellite connectivity developed with SpaceX Starlink. Jonny Dyer, CEO of Muon Space, said the company built its model to let customers field complete constellation systems in months rather than years. Lior Susan, founder and CEO of Eclipse, said Muon has combined mission design, manufacturing, launch and operations into one platform. What defense and intelligence work does Muon Space hold? Space Systems Command awarded Muon a $44.6 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase III other transaction agreement in October to build a three-satellite prototype demonstrating space-based environmental monitoring for the Department of War. The Joint Requirements Oversight Council identified cloud characterization and theater weather imagery as the mission's top priorities. The National Reconnaissance Office awarded the company a Stage II contract in May 2025 under its Strategic Commercial Enhancements Broad Agency Announcement Framework, covering multispectral electro-optical and infrared data and demonstration work. Muon was among five companies picked in December 2023 to supply commercial electro-optical capabilities under the NRO's Electro-Optical Commercial Layer program. How much manufacturing capacity does Muon Space have? An advanced manufacturing plant that recently opened in San Jose, California, is designed to produce up to 500 satellites per year by 2027, a tenfold increase over its previous capacity. More than 50 satellites are in development for customers, with 13 manifested for launch over the coming year. Seven satellites went up in the first half of 2026, bringing the company to 11 deployed over six launches. Muon reported a 100 percent mission success rate. Two customer constellations enter operation this year: Vindlér 2.0, an RF data and analytics system for SNC, and FireSat, a wildfire-monitoring constellation built with Earth Fire Alliance and Google.
Satellite maker Muon Space valued at $1.5 billion, source says Prathik Jayaprakash
Muon Space raises $250 million to mass-produce satellites. 20 August 2026 Key Takeaways * Muon Space closed a $250M Series C, led by Eclipse Capital with Google and Salesforce backing, to ramp satellite production. * A new facility in San Jose of about 130,000 sq ft was built to produce 500 satellites every year by 2027. * 11 Muon satellites are already at play, running defense operations including FireSat wildfire detection. When you need thousands of satellites for climate monitoring, defense, and real-time data, you also need a different model. If you leave the job to an engineer, there's no telling how much time will stretch. Muon Space raises $250 million to deliver a model that will ramp up satellite production and treat space infrastructure like cloud infrastructure. This means that procurement cycles won't take up to 18 months. A mission Foundry for standardized satellites. Instead of building one-off spacecraft, Muon built a factory model. The California start-up calls it a "Mission Foundry." This includes standardized, high-performance satellite platforms that can be reconfigured for different jobs. The same core hardware can run climate science, defense intelligence, and commercial Earth observation without redesigning. All it takes is swapping the software and payload. To deliver on that promise, Muon opened a 130,000-square-foot facility located in San Jose. It's automated and built for volume. The target is 500 satellites every year by 2027. That's a tenfold jump from their previous capacity. The $250 million oversubscribed Series C will fund it. The round was led by Eclipse Capital with strategic investment from Google, Salesforce Ventures, Galvanize, and Wellington Management. Total equity funding now tops $386 million. Muon has 11 satellites in orbit and paying customers. Investors aren't betting on slides. To date, Muon has put 11 satellites into orbit across 6 missions without a single failure. That hardware is live on real networks today. FireSat is the headline project. Built with Google Research and the Earth Fire Alliance, the constellation is designed to detect wildfires when they're still the size of a classroom. The goal is early alerts before fires spread. Muon's hardware is now part of national security infrastructure. The company holds multi-million dollar contracts with the U.S. Space Force and the Missile Defense Agency for dual-use platforms that cover both environmental monitoring and defense. The new capital also pushes two upgrades. The funding also targets two bottlenecks. First, on-orbit AI so satellites analyze imagery instantly in space. Second, SpaceX Starlink connectivity to stream high-bandwidth data in real time with minimal latency. Muon: from science project to infrastructure. Space isn't a lab experiment anymore. It's plumbing for the modern economy for weather data, defense, connectivity, and climate. The start-up says nobody can run that on bespoke hardware. You need volume, reliability, and fast iteration. That's what an assembly line buys you. With the new factory and funding, Muon is trying to become the AWS of space: standardized platforms, deployed at scale, and updated constantly. Space infrastructure won't be built one satellite at a time, it will be built hundreds at a time, on a production line. Muon is betting it can be the first to do that at scale. I'm a crypto writer with 4+ years of experience passionate about turning big, technical ideas into content anyone can understand. From blockchain to stablecoins to everything in between, I enjoy helping readers stay informed in a space that never stops moving. Disclaimer VentureBurn is a media platform covering the latest in cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, venture capital, and the startup ecosystem. Opinions expressed on VentureBurn are for informational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Before making any high-risk investments in digital assets or emerging technologies, readers should conduct their own due diligence. All transactions and financial decisions are made at your own risk, and any losses incurred are solely your responsibility. VentureBurn does not endorse or recommend the buying or selling of any digital assets and is not a licensed investment advisor. Please note that VentureBurn may participate in affiliate marketing programs.
Muon Space raises $250m from backers including Google and Salesforce. The company builds the FireSat wildfire constellation and wants to make 500 satellites a year. No valuation has been disclosed. August 20, 2026 - 11:30 am Muon Space has raised $250m in a round backed by Google and Salesforce, according to their announcement. It is the largest cheque yet written to a company whose best-known product is a constellation that watches for wildfires. The rise had been visible for a while. Axios reported in June that the California company was gathering $250m in a round led by Eclipse, which puts roughly two months between the first report and the close. Google's involvement is the least surprising part. Muon builds and operates FireSat, the wildfire detection constellation developed with the Earth Fire Alliance and Google Research, and it deployed the first three operational satellites in that system in July. FireSat is designed to spot fires while they are still small, on the order of a classroom rather than a neighbourhood, and to revisit the same ground often enough that the detection is useful to the people who have to drive towards it. It is the same problem OroraTech is attacking from Munich with a smaller constellation. That is a harder engineering problem than it sounds, and it is the reason the constellation needs dozens of satellites rather than a handful. What Muon actually sells, though, is the factory. The company designs mission-specific constellations on a platform it calls Halo, and chief executive Jonny Dyer has described the goal as "the world's first automated, high-mix, high-volume constellation manufacturing system", which is a long way of saying it wants to make satellites the way other people make cars. The target is 500 spacecraft a year from a 130,000-square-foot facility in San Jose. To get the propulsion in-house, it bought Starlight Engines, a maker of zinc-fuelled Hall-effect thrusters, last year. The business has also drifted. Muon began as a climate and Earth observation company and has moved steadily towards defence work, which is where the money in small satellites has gone since 2024, and it is building the Víndler radio-frequency sensing constellation for Sierra Space. Before this round, the company had raised a $146m Series B, closed in stages between August 2024 and June 2025 and led in its final tranche by Congruent Ventures, with Activate Capital, Acme Capital, Costanoa Ventures, Radical Ventures, and ArcTern Ventures on the register. Part of that was a credit facility rather than equity. Neither Muon nor its investors have published terms for the new round. No valuation has been disclosed, the split between equity and debt is unknown, and the company has not said what Google and Salesforce are putting in or through which vehicles. The sector around it has been having a good year. Planet Labs reached its first profitable year on the back of a $900m backlog and defence contracts, and the European equivalents have been raising steadily against the same demand backdrop. The demand side remains the awkward part of the story. Building the satellites has become dramatically cheaper and faster, and the market for what they see has not expanded at the same rate, which is why so many Earth observation companies end up selling to defence ministries. Wildfire detection is one of the few applications with an obvious buyer and an obvious deadline. The Earth Fire Alliance is a non-profit; the constellation is meant to be built out over the next few years, and Muon has now been paid to make that happen faster. Salesforce is the most interesting name on the list. It has no obvious operational use for satellite imagery, which suggests the investment sits with its venture arm and the sustainability thesis rather than with any product roadmap. Corporate money of that kind has been unusually willing to fund Earth observation over the past two years, partly because the sector now has revenue and partly because climate-adjacent investments are easier to defend when the constellation is also detecting fires. Muon signed more than $100m of new contracts in 2024, on its own account, and grew its team by half in the six months to mid-2025. Neither figure has been updated publicly since.