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About the Role
The Mission Optimization team improves the operations and productivity of the world’s largest Earth observation satellite constellation by identifying and resolving bottlenecks. As a Senior Space Systems Engineer, you will own the definition of novel concepts of operations, translating customer commitments and spacecraft capabilities into operational concepts for engineering and operations teams.
Responsibilities
- Define and own concepts of operations for new missions, new spacecraft capabilities, and new customer products, from early design through nominal operations
- Lead optimization initiatives that span multiple organizations – setting the technical direction, building agreement, and holding the outcome against fleet SLAs and KPIs
- Serve as a primary technical interface for the team with stakeholders across engineering, operations, and product
- Translate contractual and customer obligations into operational concepts and capacity commitments the fleet can actually meet
- Model and analyze fleet performance with operational data to identify where capacity, latency, or agility are being left on the table
- Design, develop, and maintain the software solutions that implement these concepts
- Act as a recognized subject-matter expert across Planet and provide technical mentorship within the team
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience in spacecraft operations, mission systems engineering, or a closely related field
- Ownership of concepts of operations for complex operational systems, from definition to implementation
- 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
- This position requires access to U.S. and German/EU export-controlled information, and as such, employment 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.
Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- Working proficiency in Python or a comparable language, ability to model systems, analyze operational data, and contribute production code
- 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)
Location
- Germany
- Berlin
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
Salary/Compensations
- €86.600—€108.300 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, delivering an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a 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
- 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.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.