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Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist, Cal/Val

Muon Space· Engineering - Software
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Hybrid (Denver, CO)$192k - $213kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Data science role focused on building production-calibration pipelines for Muon Space's multispectral infrared imaging missions (FireSat and SBEM), including on-orbit calibration, testing, monitoring, and deployment. Hybrid position based in Denver, CO with on-site three days/week.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate production-grade calibration and image-processing pipelines for the multispectral infrared imagery from Muon's FireSat and SBEM missions.
  • Translate calibration algorithms — such as dark/offset correction, non-uniformity correction (NUC), radiometric gain and linearity, bad-pixel identification and replacement, and band-to-band registration — from research prototypes into hardened, well-tested production code, and own the testing strategy across unit, integration, and regression suites over representative lab and on-orbit datasets.
  • Analyze pre-launch (thermal-vacuum, integrating sphere) and on-orbit calibration data to derive, validate, and trend calibration coefficients, and build monitoring, alerting, and automated diagnostic visualizations that surface calibration accuracy, noise, uniformity, and image-quality metrics as data flows through the pipelines.
  • Contribute to CI/CD, deployment, containerization, and observability tooling that keeps calibration services reliable in production, and partner with calibration scientists and the IR Instrument team to plan and execute pre-launch and on-orbit calibration campaigns for the SBEM instruments and productionize their algorithms.
  • Drive engineering best practices across the calibration codebase — code review, version control, documentation, versioned management of calibration coefficients and lookup tables, and continuous improvement of test coverage and reliability.
  • Work cross-functionally with calibration scientists, IR instrument engineers, and product teams to build and maintain operational calibration services and ensure the scientific quality, quantitative validation, and radiometric integrity of Muon's IR data products — including uncertainty budgets and cross-calibration against on-board calibrators, blackbody references, and vicarious calibration sites
  • Learn new topics as needed (measurement techniques, geospatial data engineering, software engineering, customer domain-specific implications)

Qualifications

  • PhD with 3+ years, MS with 6+ years, or BS with 8+ years of industry experience
  • 4+ years of experience calibrating imaging instruments
  • Hands-on experience with complex data from new imaging instruments
  • Proven track record shipping and operating production data or analytics pipelines for scientific data — including monitoring, logging, alerting, and automated testing — ideally in a remote sensing, calibration, or other measurement-instrument context
  • Demonstrated experience taking scientific or numerical algorithms — for example calibration, image-processing, or signal-processing algorithms — from prototype to hardened, maintainable production code, including designing unit and integration test suites and quantitative validation against reference data
  • Exceptional Python software engineering skills, including modern packaging, testing frameworks (e.g., pytest), version control, code review, and CI/CD workflows
  • Solid grounding in statistics, applied mathematics, and enough instrument physics to reason about calibration algorithms, radiometric error budgets, and their diagnostics — and to design meaningful automated quality visualizations on top of them
  • Ability to work with a distributed, interdisciplinary team (scientists, engineers, data support)
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced start up environment

Skills

Required:PythonCI/CDCalibration algorithms

Benefits

  • 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 and paid parental leave
Last updated Oct 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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