Software Engineer, Computer Vision / Machine Learning
Muon Space6 hours ago
San Jose, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$212k - $233k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, train, evaluate, and iterate on image-processing and machine-learning models for ground processing and onboard flight systems.
- Build and own the image and ML data-engineering foundation, including dataset curation, labeling, and versioning.
- Optimize algorithms and models for low-latency cloud, edge, and onboard deployment.
- Develop and benchmark high-performance reference algorithms and implementations.
- Hand algorithms and models off into the cloud serving stack and collaborate with mission and payload teams on requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Own verification and validation through unit, integration, and performance regression testing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, or a related technical field.
- At least 3 years of professional experience developing, shipping, and operating image-computation or ML systems.
- Strong PyTorch skills and experience designing, training, and evaluating models end to end.
- Production experience deploying low-latency image-computation models as containerized workloads on cloud infrastructure, with AWS preferred.
- Hands-on ML data-engineering experience with dataset curation, labeling, versioning, and algorithmic quality and performance improvement.
- Strong Python skills for tested, packaged, code-reviewed production software.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to lead and conclude cross-functional technical discussions.
- Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance; active clearance is a plus.
- Nice-to-have qualifications include geospatial or remote-sensing imagery experience, active learning or data-centric ML, edge or embedded deployment, GPU acceleration with CUDA or HIP, CI/CD for containerized workloads, and exposure to space, aerospace, or mission-critical software.
Benefits
- Hybrid work requiring three days per week onsite at the San Jose, California office.
- Full-time employees receive equity compensation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
- Benefits include three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
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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.