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About the Role
Solutions Architects on Planet’s Professional Services team are experienced technologists who work with customers to deeply understand their problems and make them successful users of Planet's product offerings. In this role, you will apply your remote sensing, geospatial, and scientific background, combined with deep knowledge of Planet’s technologies, to design and architect solutions that provide customers with the outcomes they need for long term value. Solutions Architects are good listeners and respected thought leaders that help guide large projects and teams to success outcomes and your efforts will be directly visible in customers' ability to make global change actionable.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, pilot and operationalize solutions, transforming customer requirements into robust solution architectures that align with your customer’s business and technology strategies.
- Deliver workshops, tailored demo-apps, and workflows, designing user experiences for solution prototyping and continuously improving the applications that customers experience.
- Support pre-sales and customer expansions on solution ideation and design by leveraging your remote sensing, geospatial, and geoinformatics knowledge, alongside technology experience in AI, machine learning, image processing, and geo-programming.
- Act as the technical lead in solution development teams within Agile environments, supported by project managers and software engineers who own the building of the solutions.
- Liaise with multiple cross-functional stakeholders, including product owners, technical project managers, and satellite and image quality engineers, for architecting the best solutions possible to Planet’s customers.
- Collaborate with sales, pre-sales, marketing, business development, legal, proposals, and other teams to support bidding and technical proposal writing for large civil government and commercial projects.
- Help own the customer success lifecycle from scoping and discovery, to project execution and delivery leading to customer satisfaction, value delivery and expansions.
- Champion Planet’s products and offerings in-person and via online assistance by providing training, presenting at conferences, writing technical tutorials, and publishing articles and videos.
- Interact and engage with users in Planet’s Education and Research program to source novel customer applications and unique insights.
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant work experience in a technical geospatial or remote sensing role.
- A background in remote sensing, geoscience, or geoinformatics.
- Extensive programming ability with Python for geospatial applications, applying code best practices to process imagery, manipulate vector data, and build data pipelines.
- Experience with solution design, requirement gathering, product user story ideation, solutions design documentation, architecting and prototyping.
- Industry-specific knowledge and experience in domains such as forestry, natural disasters, sustainability, and agriculture.
- Familiarity with cloud-computing environments such as GCP, AWS, and Azure.
- Experience working in Agile, cross-functional teams, with knowledge and familiarity of efficient, metrics-based planning and delivery.
- Experience using AI for productivity, coding, and demo app creation (e.g., using Streamlit).
- Ability to run workshops or training sessions with users, including working directly with end-user troubleshooting.
- Advanced experience with machine learning algorithms applied to geospatial data, and the use of Claude and AI for geospatial application.
- Working knowledge of modern cloud tools and pipelines, including Google Functions, CI/CD integrations, Vertex AI and Amazon Bedrock.
- Knowledge of the Challenger methodology for liaising with clients - supporting them and helping them see what they are not seeing, especially as you guide them on the solutions journey.
- Working knowledge of JavaScript and its mapping libraries (OpenLayers, Leaflet, ArcGIS API for JavaScript) as well as web development frameworks like React.
Skills
- Remote sensing
- Geospatial
- Scientific background
- Planet's technologies
- AI
- Machine learning
- Image processing
- Geo-programming
- Python
- QGIS
- ArcGIS
- GDAL
- ENVI
- GCP
- AWS
- Azure
- Streamlit
- JavaScript
- OpenLayers
- Leaflet
- ArcGIS API for JavaScript
- React
Location
- Berlin
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 4+ years of relevant work experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in GIS, Computer Science, Remote Sensing, Geography, or a related field.
Salary/Compensations
- €64.890—€81.090 EUR
Benefits
- 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
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.
- As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.
- 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.
- Planet is an inclusive community and we know that everyone has their own needs. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the hiring process, please reach out to accommodations@planet.com or contact your recruiter with your request. Your message will be confidential and we will be happy to assist you.