Muon Space
Software Engineer, IR Data Products
$190K–$212K
Denver, CO +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Location
- Denver, CO
Remote - Experience
- BS +5 years or MS +3 years of relevant professional experience beyond internships.
- Education
- BS, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, a physical science, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. person, eligible to access export-controlled information without required export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain required export authorization; the company may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.
About the job
Build and operate low-latency production pipelines that transform satellite infrared imagery into calibrated, geolocated, orthorectified products and wildfire detections.
What you'll do
- Develop, test, and maintain imagery processing pipelines and improve their performance against latency targets.
- Implement and operate automated workflows, monitoring, alerting, and operational tools; participate in on-call rotation.
- Partner with remote sensing scientists to productionize algorithms and diagnose data quality and processing failures.
What they ask for
- BS, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, a physical science, or equivalent practical experience.
- BS +5 years or MS +3 years of relevant professional experience beyond internships.
- Solid Python skills and experience writing tested, reviewed, maintainable code.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and containerized deployment; AWS preferred.
Nice to have
- Experience with geospatial data tooling and formats, workflow orchestration, performance optimization, or satellite and scientific imagery pipelines.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience or experience operating production systems on call.
Pay
$190,000 - $212,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, AWS, XArray, COG, GeoTIFF, NetCDF, GDAL, Zarr
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