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Muon Space

Senior Software Engineer, Government Programs

AI summary of the role

Muon Space seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the technical development of government-facing data pipelines for its infrared (IR) satellite missions, delivering imagery and analytics to the NRO and Intelligence Community.

What you’ll do

  • Design, build, and operate production software pipelines in Muon's cloud infrastructure that process and deliver IR mission data to government programs.
  • Own software integration between Muon's data platform and US Government architectures, including NRO systems and IC data infrastructure.
  • Deploy, operate, and maintain software infrastructure in classified environments, meeting security, compliance, and accreditation requirements.
  • Serve as engineering owner for NITF file formatting of IR imagery products, including metadata design, validation, and vendor tooling integration.

What you’ll bring

  • Bachelors with 8+ years or MS with 6+ years of relevant experience.
  • 5+ years building production software systems, including data or geospatial pipelines.
  • Knowledge of US Government software architectures, particularly NRO and broader IC.
  • Exceptional Python development skills, plus comfort with adjacent languages/tools in government stacks.

Technologies

Python · NITF · GDAL/OGR · rasterio · PROJ · Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF · DevSecOps · ATO · RMF · cross-domain systems

About Muon Space

Builds and operates mission-optimized LEO satellite constellations for defense, civil, and commercial Earth-intelligence customers using a vertically integrated Halo stack.

Series B · 200–500 people

Source and classification

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About the role Muon Space is building and operating a growing portfolio of infrared (IR) space missions — starting with the FireSat constellation — that generate mission-critical imagery and analytics of interest to the US Defense and Intelligence (D&I) communities. Muon's IR Missions and Data team is building the software systems that process, package, and deliver data from these missions to government end-users, including customers within the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and other members of the Intelligence Community (IC). This role will be the technical lead on building the software pipelines that process and deliver data from Muon's IR missions to government programs. The engineer in this role will design, build, and operate the production software infrastructure that connects Muon's spacecraft and data platform to government-facing systems. This will include developing
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