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Muon Space
Full time
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USA
10/04/2026
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Denver, CO

Responsibilities

Own architecture for multi-mission IR data systems spanning ingest, preprocessing, orchestration, storage, cataloging, delivery, and execution platforms.
Lead critical capabilities from problem framing and design through implementation, rollout, adoption, and operational hand-off.
Drive low-latency processing architecture, including event-driven services, cloud infrastructure optimization, and algorithmic optimization.
Set direction for geospatial data storage, cataloging, serving, tiling, STAC catalogs, IAM topology, reprocessing, and versioning.
Build MLOps foundations including model packaging and versioning, experiment tracking, GPU-backed training and inference, A/B evaluation, and reproducibility.
Set standards for code organization, release engineering, testing, documentation, code review, observability, and operational excellence.
Coordinate with Product, Program Management, Business Development, Software, science, and flight-software teams and translate ambiguous requirements into engineering plans.
Mentor engineers and raise team standards for failure modes, immutability, idempotency, reprocessing, and operational readiness.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years, MS with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of software engineering experience.
Demonstrated technical leadership on production data platforms at scale, including successful designs and rollouts.
Experience designing and operating production data pipelines on AWS with a modern workflow orchestrator such as Flyte, Airflow, Prefect, Argo, or equivalent.
Track record leading multi-quarter architectural initiatives across multiple services or teams.
Experience with latency optimization, benchmarking, instrumentation, right-sizing, fan-out, caching, and asynchronous I/O.
Strong operational experience with observability, SLOs, on-call, safe deployments, hotfix protocols, immutability, and reproducibility.
Excellent technical writing and cross-functional communication skills.
Preferred experience with event-driven or microservices architectures, queues, event routing, backpressure, retries, dead-letter queues, and service contracts.
Preferred familiarity with Union.ai or Flyte v2, Terraform, AWS IAM boundaries, geospatial or remote-sensing systems, geospatial storage formats, tile stores, and STAC.
Preferred hands-on MLOps experience with model packaging, experiment tracking, GPU-backed training and inference, feature stores, and A/B harnesses.
Preferred experience with GPU acceleration using JAX, CuPy, or CUDA; satellite ground-segment systems; imagery or tiled geospatial data delivery; and latency SLOs and benchmarking discipline.

Benefits

The role is hybrid and requires working onsite in the Denver, Colorado office three days per week.
Full-time employees receive equity compensation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance.
Benefits include three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.

Salary: $216k - $239k/yr

Muon Space

Muon Space is a comprehensive Space Systems Provider, specializing in the design, construction, and operation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations that deliver essential data for various applications. Tailored for clients needing reliable Earth intelligence—from climate monitoring to...

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