Job Description
The Senior Payload System Engineer at Planet will design, build, and operate hyperspectral payloads for a satellite constellation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This role involves collaboration across hardware, software, and product teams to enhance satellite imaging systems and ensure successful mission implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Support and drive a multi-organizational System Engineering effort for advanced payload and hyperspectral imaging system development.
- Use on-orbit data to enhance satellite fleet reliability, robustness, and throughput.
- Collaborate with external partners to integrate advanced imaging expertise into Planet.
- Drive payload requirements from inception to mission implementation.
- Lead cross-team collaborations between hardware, satellite operations, imaging operations, pipeline, and software teams.
- Act as the key interface between payload design, build, and image pipeline orchestration.
- Support the development and implementation of verification and validation plans for the payload system.
- Negotiate and implement interface control documents within payload systems and with the spacecraft bus.
Requirements
- 10 years of relevant experience, of which 5 years of experience designing airborne or space imaging payloads and/or telescopes.
- Ability to collaborate in a technical manner across organizational and functional boundaries to deliver capability to users.
- Experience with multispectral or hyperspectral imaging systems.
- Experience with program lifecycle stages including design, assembly, integration and test, or flight operations of imaging or camera hardware.
- Experience leveraging scientific tools based in MATLAB, Python, and/or C/C++ to advance design maturity and analyze system performance.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Practical experience in solving problems by exploiting large cloud-based datasets.
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering (EE), Computer Science (CS), Aerospace Engineering (AA), or relevant scientific engineering field.
- 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
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
Remote-friendly work environment
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
US base salary range of 144,500 - 180,600 USD
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