# Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Image/ML Compute Architecture at Muonspace

- Company: Muonspace
- What the company does: Design, build, and operate mission-optimized satellite constellations with Muon Space. Backed by Air Street.
- Company website: https://muonspace.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $232K to $261K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/muonspace/jobs/5238246007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/muonspace-senior-software-engineer-cloud-image-ml-compute-architecture/

## About the role

Muon Space is expanding its High Performance Compute (HPC) team to accelerate mission-critical data products and unlock a growing pipeline of scientific imaging and ML workloads across ground and flight systems.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Math, or a related technical field
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership on distributed computation or data-intensive systems
- Expert-level C++, with deep familiarity with memory management, concurrency, and performance-oriented programming in production systems
- Strong PyTorch experience and production experience running models in C++ runtimes in the cloud using LibTorch or equivalent
- Demonstrated experience architecting distributed systems for low-latency image and ML, data analysis, or computer vision
- Strong Python skills, including interaction with native optimized implementations

Tags: Engineering - Software