Muon Space
Senior Instrument Scientist, Calibration Testing
$197K–$218K
Mountain View, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's, Master's, or doctoral degree in engineering, physics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires U.S.-person status, eligibility to access export-controlled information without export authorization, or eligibility and reasonable likelihood of obtaining required export authorization. The company may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.
About the job
Owns the ground hardware and software infrastructure, test procedures, and reporting used to calibrate and validate electro-optical instruments for flight.
What you'll do
- Develop ground-calibration hardware and software infrastructure and define test procedures for spacecraft-integrated and ground-testbed campaigns.
- Deliver calibration results and reports, coordinating with the Calibration Design scientist and relevant teams.
- Join an on-call rotation to support on-orbit anomaly resolution, approximately one week every month and a half.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's, Master's, or doctoral degree in engineering, physics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years building or operating ground-calibration test infrastructure for imaging systems, remote sensing instruments, or comparable electro-optical hardware, including operating flight software during integrated test campaigns.
- Hands-on experience with calibration equipment and spacecraft testbeds for integrated campaigns.
- Proficiency in one or more of Python, Julia, or C++, including writing tested, reviewed, and maintained code in a shared codebase.
Nice to have
- Experience with visible and infrared sensors, scanner characterization, or radiometric or geometric calibration methodology.
- Experience with calibration uncertainty analysis, error budgeting, downstream data-product validation, or cleanroom environments.
Pay
$197,000 - $218,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Julia, C++
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