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Senior Software Engineer in USA new

  • Muon Space
  • Full time
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  • San Jose, CA

Responsibilities

  • Architect, develop, align, and deploy the cloud image-processing and ML-serving stack for ground data products.
  • Design distributed, low-latency image-processing systems that scale in the cloud.
  • Define interfaces and integration patterns for data pipelines to invoke performant native and accelerated code.
  • Build production-grade image-processing and ML-serving paths for current and future ground and onboard-compute missions.
  • Deliver high-performance reference algorithm implementations and benchmark them.
  • Mentor engineers on modern C++, image and ML runtimes, and distributed-systems design.
  • Own unit, integration, verification, validation, and performance-regression testing.
  • Produce designs, trade studies, and interface documentation and lead cross-functional technical discussions.

Requirements

  • 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++ experience with memory management, concurrency, and performance-oriented production programming.
  • Strong PyTorch experience and production experience running models in C++ cloud runtimes using LibTorch or equivalent.
  • Experience architecting distributed systems for low-latency image processing, ML, data analysis, or computer vision.
  • Strong Python skills, including interaction with native optimized implementations.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to lead and conclude cross-functional technical discussions.
  • Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance; active clearance is a plus.
  • Experience with non-GPU accelerators such as TPUs, accelerator tradeoffs, inference optimization, quantization, graph compilation, kernel fusion, latency-critical production systems, GPU acceleration, and containerized workload performance testing are preferred.
  • Exposure to space, aerospace, or other mission-critical software environments is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week onsite at the San Jose, California office.
  • Full-time employees receive equity compensation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
  • Benefits include three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.

Salary: $232k - $261k/yr

Muon Space

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