Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist, Calibration Pipelines

Muon Space; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical/Dental/Vision

401k

Paid vacation

Holidays

Sick time

Parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space seeks a Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist, Cal/Val, to design and operate production-grade calibration and image-processing pipelines for multispectral infrared data from FireSat and SBEM missions. You will translate research algorithms into robust production code with testing and monitoring, supporting on-orbit calibration and data quality.

The role is hybrid in Denver, three days on-site, collaborating with calibration scientists and the IR Instrument team to plan calibration

Qualifications

• PhD/MS/BS with extensive industry experience in data science or remote sensing
• 4+ years calibrating imaging instruments
• Hands-on experience with complex multispectral infrared data
• Proven track record shipping and operating production data pipelines with monitoring/logging/alerting
• Experience turning research algorithms into production code with unit/integration tests

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production-grade calibration and image-processing pipelines for multispectral infrared data (FireSat/SBEM)
• Translate calibration algorithms into hardened production code with robust testing
• Analyze pre-launch and on-orbit data to derive calibration coefficients and build monitoring visualizations
• Contribute to CI/CD, deployments, and observability tooling for reliable services
• Promote engineering best practices across the calibration codebase (version control, docs, tests)
• Collaborate with calibration scientists and IR instrument engineers to plan calibration campaigns and ensure data quality
• Learn new topics as needed (measurement techniques, geospatial data engineering, software engineering)

Skills

Python

Production pipelines

CI/CD

Statistics

Signal processing

Remote sensing

Education

PhD

MS

BS

Tools

pytest

Docker

Kubernetes

Plotly/Streamlit

AWS

Job description

Muon Space seeks a Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist, Cal/Val, to design and operate production-grade calibration and image-processing pipelines for multispectral infrared data from FireSat and SBEM missions. You will translate research algorithms into robust production code with testing and monitoring, supporting on-orbit calibration and data quality.

The role is hybrid in Denver, three days on-site, collaborating with calibration scientists and the IR Instrument team to plan calibration