Senior Instrument Scientist, Simulation

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🏈 Alabama, Arizona, +24 more states – Remote

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💵 $158k - $207k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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

• Develop and maintain end-to-end instrument performance simulations from optical, detector, and scanner physics through predicted on-orbit capability • Build and maintain virtual instrument and digital twin representations of on-orbit hardware, aligned with as-built performance • Define flight software inputs for operating modes, sensor readout, and scanner control based on simulation results • Support on-orbit performance monitoring and anomaly investigation, feeding lessons learned back into simulation models • Participate in a 24-hour, 7-day on-call rotation for on-orbit anomaly resolution, approximately one week every month and a half • Translate physics into orbital capability from concept through end of life • Own simulation and modeling connecting optical, detector, and scanner physics to on-orbit capability • Drive instrument performance prediction

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, or doctoral degree in engineering, physics, or a related field, or equivalent experience • 5+ years of experience coding and simulating performance for imaging systems, remote sensing instruments, or comparable electro-optical hardware • Experience building instrument performance models or simulations, radiometric, geometric, optical, or systems-level • Software proficiency in one or more languages, such as Python, Julia, or C++ • Experience writing code that others depend on, tested, reviewed, and maintained in a shared codebase • Strong communication skills • Comfortable translating performance predictions into requirements and trade studies across Instrument Systems, Flight Software, and Mission Systems teams • Must satisfy applicable ITAR/EAR export-control access requirements as a U.S. person, eligible without export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain export authorization

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive equity grant • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401k retirement plan • Short-term and long-term disability insurance • Life insurance • Three weeks paid vacation for new employees • 12 paid holidays • Unlimited sick time • Paid parental leave • Equal employment opportunity • Reasonable accommodations for employment applications or interviews