Staff Software Architect - IR Data Systems & MLOps

Muon Space, Inc.; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 216,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Short & long term disability & life保险

Job summary

Muon Space is seeking a hands-on staff-level engineer to lead multi-quarter architectural initiatives for our production data platforms. You will drive end-to-end design across ingest, preprocessing, orchestration, storage, and delivery, while advancing low-latency processing and geospatial data capabilities.

The role requires deep experience with distributed data systems, modern workflow orchestration, and MLOps depth, plus strong cross-team communication and design-document leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years or MS with 8+ years or PhD with 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated success as a technical leader on production data platforms at scale.
• Experience designing and operating production data pipelines on AWS with a modern workflow orchestrator (Flyte, Airflow, Prefect, Argo, or equivalent).
• Track record of leading multi-quarter architectural initiatives spanning multiple services or teams.
• Experience with latency optimization and throughput-minded design.

Responsibilities

• Own key aspects of the architectural design for the multi-mission IR data systems in partnership with the Principal Software Engineer.
• Lead the design and implementation of critical capabilities for Muon's IR missions from problem framing and design document through rollout, adoption, and hand-off.
• Own key aspects of the technical roadmap to low-latency processing including event-driven microservices, cloud infrastructure design and optimization, and algorithmic optimizations.
• Set direction for geospatial data storage, cataloging, and serving at scale — including tradeoffs across formats, tile stores, STAC catalogs, IAM topology, and reprocessing/versioning strategy.
• Design and build the MLOps foundations for derived IR products — model packaging and versioning, experiment tracking, GPU-backed training and inference, A/B evaluation harnesses, and reproducibility.
• Set software standards for the team — codebase organization, release engineering, CI, testing, documentation, observability, and operational excellence.
• Provide technical leadership across functions: coordinate design and implementation with Product, Program Management, Business Development, and other Software teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

Production data platforms

Geospatial data

ML Ops

AWS

Workflow orchestration

Latency optimization

Software architecture

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree / MS / PhD in software engineering

Tools

Flyte

Airflow

Prefect

Argo

Terraform / IaC

Job description

Muon Space is seeking a hands-on staff-level engineer to lead multi-quarter architectural initiatives for our production data platforms. You will drive end-to-end design across ingest, preprocessing, orchestration, storage, and delivery, while advancing low-latency processing and geospatial data capabilities.

The role requires deep experience with distributed data systems, modern workflow orchestration, and MLOps depth, plus strong cross-team communication and design-document leadership.