Drimva

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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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)