Remote Remote (Country) Employment

Muon Space is hiring a Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist

Responsibilities

  • Create user-ready imaging outputs from infrared satellite missions, including FireSat IOC and SBEM initiatives.
  • Investigate, architect, and deploy efficient, scalable methods for mosaicking, orthorectification, and radiometric calibration of multispectral infrared data.
  • Serve as product owner for key imagery deliverables in the SBEM and FireSat portfolios.
  • Produce and update technical specifications and customer documentation, aligning product development with stakeholder needs.
  • Collaborate with external technical partners through meetings, inquiries, and program reviews.
  • Develop robust, production-grade software integrated into live data processing and distribution systems.
  • Maintain scientific rigor, perform quantitative assessments, and ensure data consistency for orthomosaic tile outputs across wildfire and environmental missions.
  • Partner with software, calibration, and instrument teams to develop and sustain operational data processing services.
  • Continuously expand expertise in areas such as sensor characteristics, georeferencing, environmental applications, and cloud-based geospatial engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Develop imaging products for end-users from Muon's infrared imaging missions, spanning both the FireSat Initial Operating Capability (IOC) and the Space-Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) program
  • Research, design, and implement scalable algorithms for image mosaicking, orthorectification, and radiometric normalization of multispectral infrared imagery.
  • Product owner for critical customer-facing imagery products in the SBEM and FireSat programs.
  • Author and maintain technical and customer-facing design documents for imagery products, ensuring alignment between internal capabilities and external stakeholder requirements.
  • Engage with customer technical stakeholders including Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), customer questions, and program meetings
  • Write production-ready code that integrates into customer-facing data product pipelines and operational services.
  • Ensure the scientific quality, quantitative validation, and integrity of Orthomosaic Tile products across both wildfire and SBEM missions.
  • Work cross-functionally with software engineers, calibration scientists, and instrument engineers to design, build, and maintain operational data product services.
  • Learn new topics as needed (e.g., sensor geometry and characterization, georeferencing techniques, wildfire and environmental monitoring applications, cloud-native geospatial data engineering).
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Muon Space
An end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.
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Department IR Data Products
Category data
Posted 15 days ago