Job Description
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history.
Key Responsibilities
- The Mission Optimization team is responsible for continuously improving the operations and productivity of the world’s largest Earth observation satellite constellation. We identify, triage, and resolve the bottlenecks that limit what our fleets can deliver – from contact scheduling and downlink latency, to collection capacity, to concepts of operation for our future missions.
- As a Senior Space Systems Engineer on this team you will own the definition of novel concepts of operations. You will take problems that begin as a customer commitment, a contractual obligation, or an unexploited spacecraft capability, and turn them into an operational concept that engineering teams can build and operators can run.
- You will operate with substantial latitude, working closely with spacecraft and systems engineering groups to understand what current and future fleets are capable of, with the software and operations teams who build and run the systems you're changing, and with Product and customer-facing teams to stay anchored to commitments and SLA risk. Being effective across those boundaries is a core part of this job.
- This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our Berlin office 3 days per week.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience in spacecraft operations, mission systems engineering, or a closely related field
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- Ownership of concepts of operations for complex operational systems, from definition to implementation
- Working proficiency in Python or a comparable language, ability to model systems, analyze operational data, and contribute production code
- Quantitative approach, including statistical analysis and reasoning over large operational datasets
- A track record of leading technical initiatives across organizational boundaries
- Ability to communicate and negotiate technical positions with senior stakeholders
- Experience mentoring or technically leading other engineers
- Experience operating or designing operations for a large-scale satellite constellation
- Background in optimization, scheduling, or operations research
- Experience taking a new mission from design through commissioning and nominal operations
- Familiarity with commercial Earth Observation, tasking, or fulfillment systems
- Experience in a customer- or partner-facing technical role
- Familiarity with orbital mechanics, link budgets, and spacecraft resource modeling
- Experience with DevOps tooling and practices (Git, GitLab, Docker, CI/CD, Linux, Sentry, Datadog)
- Planet Labs Germany GmbH is authorized to receive U.S. export-controlled information at Planet under an export license issued by the Bureau of Industry and Security. This position requires access to U.S. and German/EU 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 German, EU, or U.S. authorities.
Benefits & Perks
- These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
- Employee Wellness Program
- Home Office Reimbursement
- Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
- Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Equity
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
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