Real-Time IR Data Pipeline Engineer (Hybrid—San Jose)

Muon Space, Inc.; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Three weeks vacation + 12 holidays

Job summary

Muon Space, Inc. is seeking a hands-on production software engineer for its IR Data Products team in a hybrid role requiring three days on-site in San Jose, CA.

You will build and operate a latency‑constrained pipeline ingesting orbit frames, calibrating, orthorectifying, and deriving fire detections and perimeters for analytics-ready data products. You will work with remote sensing scientists to ensure production code is reliable, scalable, and maintainable, delivering results on time while

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, a physical science, or equivalent practical experience.
• BS +5 years or MS +3 years of relevant professional experience beyond internships.
• Solid Python skills and writing maintainable code that others rely on.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and containerized deployment.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, and maintain production data processing pipelines for infrared imagery, from raw frames through calibrated and orthorectified products.
• Improve pipeline performance against latency targets through profiling, parallelization, and eliminating fixed overhead.
• Implement and operate workflow orchestration for continuous processing across multiple satellites.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling; participate in on-call rotation.
• Work with remote sensing scientists to turn algorithms into production-ready, tested code.
• Contribute to code review, testing practices, and documentation in a shared codebase.
• Diagnose data quality and processing failures, tracing issues to their source.
• Learn topics like remote sensing and geospatial data engineering as needed.

Skills

Python

AWS

Containers

Code maintenance

Data at scale

Distributed collaboration

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Flyte

Airflow

Terraform

GDAL/Geospatial tooling

Job description

Muon Space, Inc. is seeking a hands-on production software engineer for its IR Data Products team in a hybrid role requiring three days on-site in San Jose, CA.

You will build and operate a latency‑constrained pipeline ingesting orbit frames, calibrating, orthorectifying, and deriving fire detections and perimeters for analytics-ready data products. You will work with remote sensing scientists to ensure production code is reliable, scalable, and maintainable, delivering results on time while