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Senior Instrument Scientist, Calibration Testing

Muon Space· Engineering - EO/IR Instruments
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Hybrid (Mountain View, CA; San Jose, CA)$197k - $218kPosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Instrument Scientist responsible for Calibration Testing. Owns hardware and software infrastructure for ground calibration, defines test procedures, and delivers calibration results and reports to validate instrument readiness for flight. Hybrid role requiring on-site work in Mountain View, CA and San Jose, CA three days per week.

Responsibilities

  • Develop hardware and software infrastructure for ground calibration.
  • Define ground-calibration test procedures, including campaigns run with the instrument integrated on the spacecraft or on ground testbeds.
  • Deliver ground-calibration results and reports.
  • Partner with the Instrument Scientist responsible for Calibration Design to ensure calibration methodology can be executed with ground test infrastructure.
  • 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 building or operating ground calibration test infrastructure for imaging systems, remote sensing instruments, or comparable electro-optical hardware, including comfort operating flight software during integrated test campaigns.
  • Hands-on experience with calibration equipment such as integrating spheres, blackbodies, collimators, or autocollimators, as well as spacecraft testbeds used for integrated test campaigns.
  • 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 delivering calibration results and reports across Instrument Assembly, Integration and Test, and the Infrared Data Product team.

Skills

Required:Ground calibration infrastructure developmentGround-calibration test proceduresCalibration results and reportingCollaboration with Calibration DesignOn-call for on-orbit supportProgramming in Python / Julia / C++

Benefits

  • equity grant
  • medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k retirement plan
  • short & long term disability and life insurance
  • three weeks paid vacation
  • 12 paid holidays
  • unlimited sick time
  • paid parental leave
Last updated Oct 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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