Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist, Cal/Val

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Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist, Cal/Val


Denver, CO


About The Role
Muon Space is building a family of infrared imaging missions designed for global wildfire detection and monitoring, weather and cloud characterization, and space-based environmental monitoring. Muon's IR Data Products team builds the analytics system that processes the data from our spacecraft's custom multispectral imaging instruments into data products and analytics for diverse end-user stakeholders from these missions. We are seeking a Data Scientist to join the team to build out the on-orbit data calibration system.


In this role, the candidate will join Muon's calibration team to build the production software systems that deliver calibration and image processing of the unique multi-spectral infrared data from several instrument variations in Muon's IR missions. This is a data science role with a strong software engineering focus: the successful candidate will translate calibration algorithms into hardened production pipelines, complete with monitoring and alerting, unit and integration testing, and automated diagnostic visualizations that keep calibration and image quality observable end-to-end. As the FireSat constellation scales, this role will take on an expanded mandate that spans both the FireSat Initial Operating Capability (IOC) commissioning and Muon's Space-Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) program. In the near term, the candidate will build out and operate the calibration software stack for the three FireSat satellites of the IOC constellation and stand up the automated testing and monitoring tooling that keeps that stack healthy at constellation scale. In parallel, the candidate will develop the production calibration infrastructure for Muon's SBEM instruments — a next-generation sensor suite featuring additional infrared spectral bands and significantly more stringent radiometric calibration requirements than the FireSat came...