Jobs at Muon Space

Build and operate production calibration and image-processing pipelines for multispectral infrared satellite imagery. Translate calibration algorithms into reliable software with testing, monitoring, alerting, diagnostics, CI/CD, and observability. Analyze pre-launch and on-orbit data, validate calibration coefficients, manage uncertainty budgets, and support calibration campaigns for FireSat and SBEM missions. Collaborate with scientists, instrument engineers, and product teams to ensure radiometric integrity and scientific quality of data products.

Build and operate production Python pipelines and backend services for infrared satellite data, processing imagery from raw captures through derived wildfire products. Optimize latency and cloud costs, develop geospatial data catalogs and APIs, create visualization tools, and implement testing, observability, and reliable release processes. Partner with remote-sensing scientists to productionize research code and collaborate across data platform and flight software teams.

Develop and productionize algorithms that transform multispectral infrared satellite imagery into derived geospatial data products. Build scalable Python-based processing pipelines, validate scientific quality, document product designs, and integrate operational services for customer-facing applications. Collaborate with scientists, software and instrument engineers, product owners, and customers across wildfire, weather, and environmental monitoring missions. The hybrid role requires three days weekly onsite in Denver, Colorado.

Lead architecture and implementation for scalable infrared Earth-observation data platforms. Design low-latency event-driven systems, cloud infrastructure, geospatial storage and cataloging, and MLOps foundations for ML-derived products. Drive multi-quarter initiatives from design through production rollout, establish engineering standards and operational practices, coordinate across engineering and business functions, and mentor technical teams.

Build and operate production pipelines that convert raw infrared satellite frames into calibrated, orthorectified, analysis-ready products. Optimize pipeline latency and scale, implement workflow orchestration, build monitoring and operational tooling, collaborate with remote sensing scientists to productionize algorithms, participate in on-call rotations, and diagnose and fix data quality and processing failures.

Plan and execute industry events, exhibits, sponsorships, and company-hosted gatherings while managing budgets, vendors, logistics, executive participation, and lead follow-up. Manage LinkedIn, X, and YouTube content calendars, create multimedia content, grow audience engagement, and support executive social presence. Collaborate with business development, engineering, product, legal, and leadership teams to maintain brand consistency, measure marketing impact, and support company growth.

Designs and implements spacecraft attitude determination and control, guidance, navigation, and control architectures in embedded C++. Performs mission-specific analysis, simulation, requirements definition, sensor-calibration and geolocation pipeline development, anomaly resolution, and software- and hardware-in-the-loop testing. The role supports on-orbit systems and collaborates across spacecraft engineering disciplines. Remote work is available from approved states, with export-control eligibility requirements.

Supports Muon’s Legal and Contracts team across commercial space law, regulatory compliance, government contracts, corporate matters, and export compliance. Responsibilities include maintaining compliance matrices, researching legal and regulatory topics, drafting written summaries, assisting with agreements and filings, and documenting export records. The role is a full-time remote summer internship offering mentorship and exposure to satellite, aerospace, national security, and government contracting matters.

Lead enterprise security risk assessments, maintain the risk register, prioritize and track remediation, evaluate vendor and architectural risks, define risk methodologies, map controls to NIST and CMMC requirements, support audits, report risk metrics to leadership, and promote risk ownership across the organization.

Designs and implements automation for spacecraft and ground station operations, monitors satellite health and telemetry, troubleshoots anomalies, executes operational procedures, coordinates orbit maneuvers, and supports satellite integration. The role collaborates across engineering teams to maintain satellite services and fleet performance.

Leads high-priority technical proposals and capture efforts from opportunity identification through contract award. Coordinates Engineering, Business Development, Program Management, Finance, Contracts, Manufacturing, and executive stakeholders to create compliant, differentiated submissions. Develops win themes, solution strategies, schedules, reviews, competitive analyses, and scalable capture processes. Ensures compliance with U.S. government solicitations, mentors contributors, leads retrospectives, and identifies emerging customer needs and growth opportunities.

Own the end-to-end commercial and civil space business development process, including customer discovery, lead generation, opportunity qualification, pipeline management, pricing, market sizing, proposals, and deal closure. Partner with engineering, product, and mission architecture teams to deliver integrated satellite solutions across remote sensing, satcom, and orbital infrastructure markets. Ensure smooth transitions from pre-sales to execution while managing strategic customer relationships.

Lead mission formulation and architecture for EO/IR and persistent infrared/MW missions. Perform mission-level analyses, define requirements and top-level budgets, design payloads and constellations, run trade studies using software/code, and coordinate with instrument, engineering, and science teams to deliver cost-effective space mission solutions.

Lead mission formulation and architecture: develop mission concepts from customer needs, perform mission-level analyses and top-level budgets, define requirements and design for spacecraft and RF/optical instruments, run engineering trade studies using code/tools, evaluate constellation configurations, and coordinate across disciplines.

Serve as technical lead for a designated space mission across concept, development, verification, and on-orbit operations. Translate customer objectives into requirements and ICDs, manage requirements traceability, subsystem budgets, risk, design changes, and reviews. Coordinate cross-functional teams (systems, hardware, software, data, ground, operations), interface with customers, and improve engineering processes and tools.

Lead exploration and development of novel EO/IR payload concepts, build simulations and radiometric models, define system requirements, perform feasibility and trade studies, support R&D proposals and demonstrations, and collaborate across product, applied science, mission systems, and business development to translate early-stage ideas into technical architectures and customer-facing capabilities.

Implement and optimize RF DSP algorithms in HDL for real-time FPGA execution, prototype algorithms in Python and port to ARM SoCs, collaborate on instrument bring-up, calibration and system integration with RF hardware teams, author design documentation and test reports, and work in a hybrid Mountain View office.

Lead mission-level systems engineering from concept through on-orbit operations: develop mission concepts, requirements, system models, CONOPS and budgets; drive cross-disciplinary trades, manage V&V and reviews, mitigate risks, serve as primary technical customer interface, and provide technical direction across hardware, software, ground, and operations teams.