Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist (Cal/Val)

Location: Hybrid in Denver, Colorado, with on-site work required three days per week. Muon is registered and able to hire in AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IA, ID, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VT, VA. Access to export-controlled information requires U.S. person status, eligibility without export authorization, or eligibility and reasonable likelihood of obtaining authorization.

Salary: $192,000–$213,000 per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations that deliver remote-sensing data for climate monitoring, environmental monitoring, and national security applications.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate production-grade calibration and image-processing pipelines for multispectral infrared imagery from FireSat and SBEM missions.
• Translate dark/offset correction, non-uniformity correction, radiometric gain and linearity, bad-pixel correction, and band-registration algorithms into maintainable production software.
• Analyze pre-launch and on-orbit calibration data to derive, validate, and trend calibration coefficients and image-quality metrics.
• Build monitoring, alerting, automated diagnostic visualizations, unit tests, integration tests, regression tests, and quantitative validation workflows.
• Contribute to CI/CD, deployment, containerization, observability, versioned calibration coefficients, and lookup-table management.
• Collaborate with calibration scientists, instrument engineers, and product teams on FireSat commissioning and SBEM pre-launch and on-orbit calibration campaigns.

Requirements

• PhD with 3+ years, MS with 6+ years, or BS with 8+ years of industry experience.
• 4+ years of experience calibrating imaging instruments and hands-on experience with complex data from new imaging instruments.
• Experience shipping and operating production scientific data or analytics pipelines with monitoring, logging, alerting, and automated testing.
• Experience converting scientific, numerical, calibration, image-processing, or signal-processing algorithms from prototypes into tested production code.
• Exceptional Python software engineering skills, including packaging, pytest or comparable testing frameworks, version control, code review, and CI/CD.
• Strong grounding in statistics, applied mathematics, instrument physics, radiometric error budgets, and automated quality visualization.

Nice to have

• Experience with mid-wave infrared instruments, MWIR data processing, and radiometric, spectral, or geometric calibration of on-orbit imaging instruments.
• Knowledge of remote sensing, radiometric calibration, SI traceability, uncertainty analysis, detector characterization, and calibration campaign design.
• Experience with XArray, COG, NetCDF, Plotly, Panel, Streamlit, or Grafana.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, Prefect, Argo, AWS, infrastructure-as-code, TB-scale datasets, or geospatial analytics.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short- and long-term disability and life insurance.
• Three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
• Work in a fast-paced startup environment with a distributed, interdisciplinary team.

Hiring process

• Compensation is finalized based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location during the interview process.
• Applicants may request reasonable accommodation for the application or interview process.