Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create imaging products for end-users derived from Muon's infrared imaging missions, encompassing both the FireSat Initial Operating Capability (IOC) and the Space-Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) program.

• Investigate, design, and implement scalable algorithms for image mosaicking, orthorectification, and radiometric normalization of multispectral infrared imagery.

• Serve as the product owner for essential customer-facing imagery products within the SBEM and FireSat programs.

• Author and maintain both technical and customer-oriented design documents for imagery products, ensuring consistency between internal capabilities and external stakeholder expectations.

• Interact with customer technical stakeholders through Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), addressing customer inquiries, and participating in program meetings.

• Develop 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.

• Collaborate across functions with software engineers, calibration scientists, and instrument engineers to design, build, and sustain operational data product services.

• Acquire knowledge on new topics as required (e.g., sensor geometry and characterization, georeferencing techniques, wildfire and environmental monitoring applications, cloud-native geospatial data engineering).

⛳️ Requirements

• PhD with over 3 years of industry experience; or MS with more than 6 years of industry experience; or BS with 8+ years of industry experience.

• More than 5 years of experience in developing geospatial data products from remote sensing data.

• Practical experience with image mosaicking, orthorectification, or related geospatial image processing methodologies.

• Experience handling real-world data from innovative or emerging imaging instruments.

• Familiarity with standard geospatial data formats and tools (e.g., Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF, XArray, GDAL).

• Strong skills in Python-based development and analysis.

• Capability to write and effectively communicate technical design documents and product specifications.

• Ability to collaborate with a distributed, interdisciplinary team (scientists, engineers, data support).

• Capacity to excel in a fast-paced startup environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• 401k retirement plan

• Short & long term disability

• Life insurance

• 3 weeks paid vacation

• 12 paid holidays

• Unlimited sick time

• Paid parental leave