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Senior Instrument Scientist, Simulation

Muon Space· Engineering - EO/IR Instruments
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Remote$158k - $207kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Instrument Scientist responsible for Simulation who owns simulation and modeling connecting optical, detector, and scanner physics to on-orbit capability; builds virtual instrument and digital twin representations; drives instrument performance prediction.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain end-to-end instrument performance simulations, from optical, detector, and scanner physics through predicted on-orbit capability.
  • Build and maintain the virtual instrument and digital twin representations of our on-orbit hardware, keeping them aligned with as-built performance.
  • Define flight software inputs for operating modes, sensor readout, and scanner control based on simulation results.
  • Support on-orbit performance monitoring and anomaly investigation, feeding lessons learned back into the simulation models.
  • Participate in a twenty-four-hour, seven-day on-call rotation to support on-orbit anomaly resolution. The on-call rotation is approximately one week every month and a half.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or doctoral degree in engineering, physics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience coding and simulating performance for imaging systems, remote sensing instruments, or comparable electro-optical hardware.
  • Experience building instrument performance models or simulations, radiometric, geometric, optical, or systems-level.
  • Software proficiency in one or more languages, such as Python, Julia, or C++, including experience writing code that others depend on, tested, reviewed, and maintained in a shared codebase.
  • Strong communication skills, comfortable translating performance predictions into requirements and trade studies across Instrument Systems, Flight Software, and Mission Systems teams.

Skills

Required:instrument performance modelingprogrammingcommunication

Benefits

  • equity grant
  • medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k retirement plan
  • short & long term disability and life insurance
  • three weeks paid vacation for new employees
  • 12 paid holidays
  • unlimited sick time
  • paid parental leave
Last updated Sep 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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