Max Brand
Portfolio Lead Systems Engineer, Commercial Payloads at Muon Space
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Brand is a Senior Systems Engineer with 8 years of experience applying systems thinking to propulsion and aerospace challenges across startups and legacy OEMs. He has led propulsion design and flight hardware delivery at Momentus—delivering water‑propelled RCS thrusters currently operating in LEO—and now drives systems at Muon Space from the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously he matured the GTF Advantage engine from concept to test at Pratt & Whitney, improving thrust, fuel efficiency, and durability while mentoring performance teams. Max blends hands‑on CFD and compressible flow modeling with orbital mechanics and mission trade studies, and has a track record of translating research-grade reduced‑order models into test‑ready engineering solutions. Notably, he pairs startup proposal leadership and cross‑discipline integration experience with deep technical expertise in microwave electrothermal and water‑based propulsion systems.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Aeronautics and Astronautics, M.S., Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (3)
jekyll5
spotify2
home-assistant2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Maxbrand/max-webpage
Feb 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:180 pushes, 8 issues in 1 year 3 months
Maxbrand/blog
Jul 2018 - Dec 2020
Blog for Max Brandhorst-Satzkorn
Contributions:75 commits, 8 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 5 months
jekyll
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