Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist, Cal/Val
Core
Build production software systems for on-orbit calibration and image processing of multispectral infrared data from FireSat and SBEM satellite missions.
Role type
Senior IC data scientist with strong software engineering focus
Builds
Production calibration pipelines and monitoring tooling for satellite imaging instruments
Domain
Remote sensing, infrared imaging, space-based environmental monitoring
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python software engineering, calibration algorithms (radiometric, geometric), data pipeline development, automated testing, statistics, instrument physics
Preferred skills
Mid-wave infrared (MWIR) data processing, on-orbit instrument calibration, geospatial data tooling (XArray, NetCDF), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud infrastructure (AWS)
Technologies
Python, pytest, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, XArray, NetCDF, Plotly, Streamlit, Grafana
Responsibilities
Design and operate production-grade calibration pipelines; translate research algorithms into hardened production code; analyze pre-launch and on-orbit data to derive calibration coefficients; build monitoring and alerting systems; contribute to CI/CD and observability tooling; partner with scientists to execute calibration campaigns
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
