Design, build, and operate mission-optimized satellite constellations with Muon Space. Backed by Air Street.
About the role
Muon Space is building and operating a growing portfolio of infrared (IR) space missions that generate mission-critical Earth observation data for a diverse and expanding set of customers. These missions include the FireSat constellation, which delivers calibrated IR imagery and derived wildfire products to wildfire operators, the scientific community, the US Government, and commercial partners; and the Space Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) mission, which provides data for weather and cloud characterization,... Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years or MS with 6+ years or PhD with 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience shipping and operating production Python data pipelines and backend services on AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with a modern workflow orchestrator (e.g., Flyte, Airflow, Prefect, Argo, Dagster, or similar) and containerized deployments
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: production Python code, unit and integration testing, Git-based trunk development, code review, CI/CD, etc
- Demonstrated experience adding production-grade observability to a system: structured logging, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and on-call ownership
- Working geospatial domain knowledge — hands-on experience with common geospatial libraries (e.g., GDAL/OGR, rasterio, PROJ, shapely) and formats (e.g., GeoTIFF, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF, NetCDF, Zarr, HDF)
More about this role
Muon Space is building and operating a growing portfolio of infrared (IR) space missions that generate mission-critical Earth observation data for a diverse and expanding set of customers. These missions include the FireSat constellation, which delivers calibrated IR imagery and derived wildfire products to wildfire operators, the scientific community, the US Government, and commercial partners; and the Space Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) mission, which provides data for weather and cloud characterization, situational awareness, and a broad range of additional use cases. Muon's IR Data Products team owns the multi-mission, multi-customer software systems that process, store, and disseminate the data from these missions — turning raw downlink into calibrated imagery and derived products, and delivering those products reliably to customers at scale.
In this role, you will build, harden, and operate the production pipelines and services that process and serve data from Muon’s Infrared missions — with an emphasis on robust processing pipelines, low latency, strong observability, and geospatial data serving. The ideal candidate is a hands-on senior engineer who has shipped and...
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