Cloud Image & ML HPC Architect — Low-Latency Production

Climactic; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Three weeks paid vacation

12 paid holidays

Job summary

Muon Space in San Jose, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the cloud image processing and ML serving platform for mission-critical data products. You will design low-latency, distributed systems, optimize performance, and mentor teammates while shaping interfaces and pipelines for production workloads.

The role is hybrid and requires on-site collaboration three days per week at our San Jose office, with a focus on scalable image analytics and real-time ML inference.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Expert-level C++ with memory management and concurrency.
• Strong PyTorch experience and production use of LibTorch in cloud runtimes.
• Experience architecting low-latency distributed systems for image/ML workloads.
• Strong Python skills and ability to work with native implementations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and cross-functional leadership.
• Willingness to obtain/maintain U.S. security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy cloud image processing and ML serving stack.
• Design distributed, low-latency image processing systems that scale in the cloud.
• Define interfaces for data pipelines to call into optimized code.
• Build production-grade image processing and ML serving paths for data pipelines.
• Deliver high-performance reference algorithms and benchmarks.
• Mentor engineers on C++, image/ML runtimes, and distributed design.
• Own verification, tests, and performance regression.
• Produce designs, trade studies, and interface documentation.

Skills

C++

PyTorch

Python

Distributed systems

Code optimization

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

LibTorch

Job description

Muon Space in San Jose, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the cloud image processing and ML serving platform for mission-critical data products. You will design low-latency, distributed systems, optimize performance, and mentor teammates while shaping interfaces and pipelines for production workloads.

The role is hybrid and requires on-site collaboration three days per week at our San Jose office, with a focus on scalable image analytics and real-time ML inference.