Head Of Cybersecurity

About the role

Muon Space is building an expert team that is designing and generating value-added products from Earth observations from Muon’s constellation of low Earth orbit satellites and other geospatial datasets. Protecting and securing our own information as well as customer information is paramount to our mission.

The Head of Cybersecurity will collaboratively work across our Missions, Engineering Infrastructure, Organizational Processes and IT Infrastructure to ensure we are safeguarding data and IP for ourselves and customers and ensuring we are compliant with the applicable government policies and contractual agreements. This role is the champion of a roadmap of Product & Information security needs for our Missions, Muon Halo spacecraft platform, Ground Infrastructure, Data Platform, IT Systems and Organizational Processes. In addition, this role will evaluate and manage security incidents and notification to relevant stakeholders and authorities. This role will oversee the building, configuration or development of tools and processes to support the rapid, iterative development of our space and ground platforms.

This role may be remote or located at our headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with our Business Development team to assess security needs of our existing and potential customer missions
• Developing and implementing information and security policies and procedures
• Managing all security incidents including notifications and corrective action. This involves communicating both internally and externally with customers in partnership with Business Development and Program Management
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, contractual obligations and industry standards
• Conducting security assessments and corrective actions of our platform, services and processes
• Championing a security roadmap across our Muon Halo spacecraft platform, Ground Infrastructure and Data Platform to support our security needs for customer missions
• Identifying and building DevOps security tools that will safeguard code, IP and data in compliance with our policies and procedures
• Communicating security risks to stakeholders

Qualifications

• 7+ years of information security and or security engineering experience
• Excellent communication and leadership skills to effectively communicate security risks and policies across our platform and teams
• Successfully executed a change management program to adopt impactful security policies and processes in an organization within several months or up to a year
• Demonstrated retaining engineering productivity while applying policies and processes to meet our security needs
• Strong understanding of information security principles, regulations and standards.
• Strong understanding of security assessment tools and methodologies.
• Demonstrated selection and management of vendors for Assessment, Penetration, IT and Cloud systems
• Current US Federal Secret Clearance holder or eligible & willing to achieve a Secret Clearance with sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications

• Implemented security policies and processes, preferably governmental, that have strong access control restrictions such as NIST-181 and CMMC.
• Experience with security vulnerabilities and applying policies in embedded systems & teams
• Experience with security vulnerabilities and applying policies in cloud & data systems & teams
• Experience working through a distributed team of engineers
• Experience managing Security, Information Systems, DevOps and or Cloud Engineering teams

Salary

The salary range for this role is $95K- $195K and will depend on a candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience as defined during the interview process.

About Muon Space

Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.

Taking Care of Our Team

At Muon salary is only part of our total compensation package. In addition to salary, we provide equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, life insurance, and an employee development program. We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.

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. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application! In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

ITAR/EAR Requirements

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.