Senior IR Data Scientist: Calibration & On-Orbit Imaging

Openkrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Muon Space is building a suite of infrared imaging missions, developing the analytics system that processes data into usable products for diverse stakeholders. The Data Scientist will join the calibration team to build production software for on-orbit calibration and image processing of multispectral infrared data across FireSat and SBEM instruments.

The role emphasizes translating calibration algorithms into hardened pipelines with testing, monitoring, and visualizations, supporting

Qualifications

• PhD/MS/BS with extensive experience in calibration, imaging, or remote sensing data pipelines.
• Proven ability to ship production data pipelines with monitoring and testing.
• Strong Python software engineering skills and modern CI/CD practices.
• Knowledge of geospatial data formats and visualization tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production-grade calibration and image-processing pipelines for multispectral infrared imagery.
• Translate research algorithms into production code with unit/integration tests and dashboards.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and automated diagnostics for calibration pipelines.
• Collaborate on CI/CD, deployment, containerization, and observability tooling for reliable production services.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Unit testing

Data analysis

Statistics

Geospatial data

Team collaboration

Startup environment

Education

PhD (3+ years)

MS (6+ years)

BS (8+ years)

Tools

Plotly

Panel

Streamlit

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

XArray

NetCDF

Job description

Muon Space is building a suite of infrared imaging missions, developing the analytics system that processes data into usable products for diverse stakeholders. The Data Scientist will join the calibration team to build production software for on-orbit calibration and image processing of multispectral infrared data across FireSat and SBEM instruments.

The role emphasizes translating calibration algorithms into hardened pipelines with testing, monitoring, and visualizations, supporting