Job Description
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history.
Key Responsibilities
- Planet is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager with experience in guiding and mentoring high-performing engineering teams. In this role, you will lead engineering teams delivering novel machine learning powered products focused on Defense and Intelligence customers. The teams work from research and development, designing algorithms, integrating them into production, and maintaining them via MLOps. For example, the team has developed road and building monitoring products based on our satellite imagery, and built a SuperRes product to enhance our medium resolution imagery. This is a servant leadership role focused on enabling your team members to do their best work in a highly collaborative, distributed environment.
- This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our Washington DC office 3 days per week.
Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant work experience, with 4+ years of supervisory/leadership experience, with ability to build, retain, and grow diverse, geographically dispersed teams
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- Experience in delivering data-intensive software products at scale
- Solid understanding of fundamentals in software engineering, statistics and machine learning
- Success in establishing and evolving operational practices in a software engineering organization
- Experience owning and maintaining ML models in production
- Experience with distributed cloud computing
- Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to explain complex technical issues accurately to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience building products using sensor or geospatial data
- Experience in remote sensing or related fields
- Ability to obtain security clearance
- This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
Benefits & Perks
- These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
- Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
- 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Home Office Reimbursement
- Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
- Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Equity
- Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
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