Software Engineer, Computer Vision / Machine Learning
Muon Space· Engineering - Software
San Jose, CA$212k - $233kfull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Role focusing on design and deployment of image processing and ML models for Muon's ground and flight systems, with emphasis on low latency, edge deployment, and data engineering foundations.
Responsibilities
- Design, train, evaluate, and iterate on image processing models for Muon's ground processing and onboard flight systems.
- Build and own the image and ML data engineering foundation.
- Optimize algorithms and models for low latency operation on cloud compute environments, and edge/onboard deployment in constraint environments.
- Contribute to high-performance reference algorithms and implementations and benchmark them.
- Hand algorithms and models off into the cloud serving stack and partner with mission and payload teams to define requirement needs and acceptance criteria.
- Own verification and validation, including unit, integration, and performance regression tests.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Math, or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of professional experience developing, shipping, and operating image computation or ML systems.
- Strong PyTorch skills, including designing, training, and evaluating models end-to-end.
- Demonstrated production experience with low-latency image computation models, deployed as containerized workloads on cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
- Hands-on ML data engineering: dataset curation, labeling, and versioning for training and evaluation. Measuring and improving algorithmic quality and performance.
- Strong Python skills beyond notebooks: tested, packaged, code-reviewed code that runs unattended in production.
- Strong written and verbal communication and ability to lead and conclude cross-functional technical discussions.
- Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. Active clearance is a plus.
Skills
Required:Image processing and ML model designPyTorchLow-latency production ML/CVPython
Benefits
- three weeks paid vacation for new employees
- 12 paid holidays
- unlimited sick time
- paid parental leave
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k retirement plan
- short & long term disability and life insurance
- equity compensation
Last updated Sep 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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