Muon Space
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Image/ML Compute Architecture
$232K–$261K
San Jose, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
San Jose, California, United States - Experience
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership on distributed computation or data-intensive systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Math, or a related technical field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. For access to export-controlled information, applicants must meet one of the stated U.S. person, export-authorization eligibility, or authorization-likelihood conditions.
About the job
Architects and delivers cloud image-processing and ML serving infrastructure for production data products, focusing on distributed-system design and performance.
What you'll do
- Build and deploy the cloud image-processing and ML serving stack, including runtime integration, request batching, and customer data feeds.
- Design and benchmark low-latency distributed image-processing systems and define interfaces for data pipelines to call optimized native code.
- Own verification and validation, document designs and interfaces, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a stated or related technical field.
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership on distributed computation or data-intensive systems.
- Expert-level C++ and strong Python skills; production PyTorch experience running models in C++ cloud runtimes using LibTorch or equivalent.
- Demonstrated experience architecting distributed systems for low-latency image and ML, data analysis, or computer vision; ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience with non-GPU accelerators, inference optimization, GPU acceleration, or CI/CD for containerized workloads.
- Production ownership of latency-critical systems or experience in space, aerospace, or other mission-critical software environments.
Pay
USD $232,000 - $261,000 base salary
Tools
C++, PyTorch, LibTorch, Python, TPUs, CUDA, HIP
AI focus
Builds production ML model serving infrastructure and supports model inference optimization for imaging workloads.
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