Senior Instrument Scientist, Calibration Design

🕒 September 24

🏈 Alabama, Arizona, +24 more states – Remote

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💵 $158k - $207k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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Muon Space

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

💰 $25M Series A on 2022-08

Manufacturing • Logistics • Consulting

Muon Space is a company that designs, builds, and operates low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations optimized for Earth intelligence missions. They provide integrated technology solutions through their innovative Muon Halo technology stack, which enables rapid deployment and superior performance of satellite constellations. Muon Space offers a three-phase approach to satellite constellation development, focusing on mission architecture, hardware and software integration, and efficient operation. Their expertise in aerospace engineering and Earth intelligence contributes to addressing global challenges such as climate change and resource management. The company collaborates with government and private sectors to deliver advanced geospatial intelligence and weather data solutions.

📋 Description

• Own the radiometric and geometric calibration methodology for the instrument • Define standards and procedures to convert raw instrument signals into calibrated, science-grade measurements • Define standards and procedures to determine and correct instrument pointing and geometric accuracy • Define calibration data processing and outputs with the Infrared Data Product team • Ensure calibration artifacts meet downstream product needs • Support ground-calibration test planning and translate methodology into executable test procedures • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for on-orbit anomaly resolution, approximately one week every month and a half

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, or doctoral degree in engineering, physics, or a related field, or equivalent experience • 5+ years of experience developing radiometric or geometric calibration methodology for imaging systems, remote sensing instruments, or comparable electro-optical hardware • Familiarity with calibration equipment such as integrating spheres, blackbodies, collimators, or autocollimators • Experience turning radiometric or geometric calibration methodology into data processing algorithms that produce calibration products • Strong communication skills, comfortable translating calibration methodology into requirements and test procedures across Instrument Systems, Instrument Assembly, Integration and Test, and Instrument Design • Familiarity with ground calibration test infrastructure and procedures • Experience with visible and infrared sensors, and scanner characterization • Experience supporting calibration data validation with downstream data product teams • Experience with calibration uncertainty analysis and error budgeting • Willingness to travel occasionally to support in-person calibration or validation campaigns • Must satisfy applicable ITAR/EAR export-control eligibility requirements: be a U.S. person, eligible to access export-controlled information without authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain required export authorization

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive equity grant • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401k retirement plan • Short-term disability insurance • Long-term disability insurance • Life insurance • Three weeks paid vacation for new employees • 12 paid holidays • Unlimited sick time • Paid parental leave

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