Software Engineer, IR Data Products
Muon Space2 months ago
San Jose, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$156k - $186k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, test, and maintain production data processing pipelines for infrared imagery from raw frames through calibrated and orthorectified products.
- Improve pipeline performance through profiling, parallelization, and removal of fixed overhead in the critical path.
- Implement and operate workflow orchestration for continuous automated processing across multiple satellites.
- Build monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling and participate in an on-call rotation.
- Work with remote sensing scientists to turn algorithms and prototypes into tested, maintainable production code.
- Contribute to code reviews, testing practices, and technical documentation.
- Diagnose and resolve data quality and processing failures by tracing issues through the pipeline to their source.
- Learn remote sensing measurement techniques, geospatial data engineering, and customer-domain implications as needed.
Requirements
- A BS, master’s, or PhD in computer science, engineering, physical science, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least five years of relevant professional experience with a BS or three years with an MS, beyond internships.
- Solid Python skills and experience writing tested, reviewed, and maintainable production code.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and containerized deployment.
- Ability to work with data at a scale where naive approaches are insufficient.
- Ability to collaborate with a distributed, interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and data support staff.
- Willingness to learn remote sensing and customer-domain science well enough to assess output correctness.
- Preferred experience with geospatial data tooling and formats including XArray, COG, GeoTIFF, NetCDF, GDAL, or Zarr.
- Preferred experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Flyte or Airflow.
- Preferred experience with performance profiling and optimization of data-intensive systems.
- Preferred experience with satellite, remote sensing, or scientific imagery pipelines.
- Preferred infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or similar tools.
- Preferred experience operating production systems on call.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring on-site work in the San Jose, California office three days per week.
- Equity compensation, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401k retirement plan, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
- Export-controlled information access requirements may apply under ITAR/EAR regulations.
About Muon Space
Muon Space designs, builds, and operates low Earth orbit satellite constellations and a software stack that deliver Earth intelligence and in-orbit compute for government, defense, and commercial users. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the privately held company sells spacecraft, payload integration, and data services. It runs a San Jose production facility capable of building up to 500 satellites in the 100–500+ kg class annually and has acquired propulsion startup Starlight Engines.