About the Role
The Corporate Engineering team is building a world-class center of excellence driving AI strategy, enablement, adoption, and business partnership across the Planet organization. We are scaling AI capabilities to transform internal workflows, enhance engineering velocity, and create groundbreaking software experiences. This role will lead the hands-on deployment of enterprise-grade AI applications, custom agentic workflows, and foundational AI infrastructure while ensuring strict alignment with regulatory compliance standards.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain production-ready Enterprise AI applications and internal tools leveraging Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Cursor, and Claude.
- Partner to build end-to-end intelligent agent experiences, and automate complex business workflows in partnership with internal business units.
- Support the evaluation, customization, and integration of platforms like Google Gemini Enterprise App.
- Maintain a centralized AI Gateway to manage LLM API routing, rate limiting, cost controls, and model selection across all internal teams.
- Integrate an AI Agent Registry to catalogue, govern, and monitor agents across the company.
- Implement robust logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks to ensure all AI touchpoints are accurately tracked and managed.
- Manage specific AI data pipelines and infrastructure to adhere to ITAR and EAR standards.
- Collaborate with Security and Legal teams to institute strict data access controls, secret management, and compliance checks for all AI integrations and development.
- Promote industry best practices for AI engineering.
- Evangelize AI tools and capabilities across non-technical and technical business units to accelerate enterprise adoption and productivity.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- Hands-on experience developing and deploying applications using GCP and AWS ecosystem
- Learning mindset with the ability to adapt to constant change
- Experience working in regulated engineering environments requiring strict compliance standards (ITAR, EAR, or FedRAMP)
- Expertise in GCP and AWS
- Experience with AI Gateways, Agent Registries, and AI orchestration platforms
- Expertise with Python, Vector Databases, and SQL
Skills
- Python
- Vector Databases
- SQL
- GCP
- AWS
- AI Gateways
- Agent Registries
- AI orchestration platforms
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $144,500—$180,600 USD
Benefits
- 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
About the Company
- Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.
- Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.
- We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.
- Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.
Equal Opportunity
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- Planet is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. Planet is an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Know Your Rights.
