Senior Infrared Data Scientist - Calibration Pipelines

Muon Space, Inc.; Quinte West; Hybrid; CAD 274,000 - 304,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Health, dental, vision insurance

401k retirement plan

3 weeks paid vacation + holidays

Job summary

Muon Space, Inc. is seeking a Data Scientist to build and operate production calibration pipelines for on-orbit infrared data from FireSat and SBEM missions.

The role combines data science with production software engineering, including testing, monitoring, and visualization of calibration quality. The successful candidate will contribute to CI/CD, containerization, and observability tooling while collaborating with calibration scientists and the IR Instrument team to scale calibration workflows

Qualifications

• PhD with 3+ years, MS with 6+ years, or BS with 8+ years of industry experience.
• 4+ years calibrating imaging instruments.
• Experience shipping production data pipelines with monitoring and testing.
• Strong Python software engineering skills; CI/CD and testing experience.
• Statistics, applied mathematics, and radiometric calibration knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production-grade calibration and image-processing pipelines for multispectral infrared imagery.
• Translate calibration algorithms into hardened production code with unit and integration tests.
• Analyze calibration data to derive coefficients and build monitoring dashboards and visualizations.
• Contribute to CI/CD, deployment, containerization, and observability tooling for production calibration services.
• Drive engineering best practices: code reviews, version control, documentation, and coefficients management.
• Collaborate with scientists and engineers to ensure scientific quality and radiometric integrity of data products.
• Learn new topics as needed.

Skills

Python

Unit testing

Data analysis

Statistics

CI/CD

Education

PhD/MS/BS with industry experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Plotly

Job description

Muon Space, Inc. is seeking a Data Scientist to build and operate production calibration pipelines for on-orbit infrared data from FireSat and SBEM missions.

The role combines data science with production software engineering, including testing, monitoring, and visualization of calibration quality. The successful candidate will contribute to CI/CD, containerization, and observability tooling while collaborating with calibration scientists and the IR Instrument team to scale calibration workflows