Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist - Hybrid (Denver)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space, Inc. seeks a Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist for Cal/Val to build production calibration and image-processing pipelines for infrared multispectral data.

You will translate research algorithms into robust production code, implement testing and monitoring, and collaborate across calibration scientists and instrument teams as Muon's FireSat and SBEM programs scale toward launch. The role is hybrid, based in Denver, CO, with on-site work three days per week, and involves developing

Qualifications

• PhD with 3+ years, MS with 6+ years, or BS with 8+ years of industry experience.
• 4+ years of experience calibrating imaging instruments.
• Hands-on experience with complex data from new imaging instruments.
• Proven track record shipping and operating production data pipelines for scientific data.
• Experience turning algorithms from prototype to production code with unit/integration tests.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production-grade calibration and image-processing pipelines for multispectral infrared imagery.
• Translate calibration algorithms into hardened production code with testing strategies.
• Analyze calibration data to derive, validate, and trend coefficients with monitoring and visualizations.
• Contribute to CI/CD, deployment, containerization, and observability tooling.
• Drive engineering best practices across the calibration codebase and documentation.
• Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product teams to maintain operational calibration services and validate data quality.

Skills

Python programming

CI/CD

Testing frameworks

Statistics

Geospatial data processing

Distributed teamwork

Startup mindset

Education

PhD

MS

BS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow

Prefect

Argo

AWS

Job description

Muon Space, Inc. seeks a Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist for Cal/Val to build production calibration and image-processing pipelines for infrared multispectral data.

You will translate research algorithms into robust production code, implement testing and monitoring, and collaborate across calibration scientists and instrument teams as Muon's FireSat and SBEM programs scale toward launch. The role is hybrid, based in Denver, CO, with on-site work three days per week, and involves developing