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Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer (San Francisco Office)
Planet Labs · San Francisco, CA · Posted 101 days ago
Lead technical coordination across multiple satellite subsystems to deliver the world's largest constellation of imaging satellites serving commercial, environmental, and humanitarian missions.
Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.
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.
Impact You’ll Own:
- Interface mission specifications between our customer and Planet’s teams
- Assess system level budgets for engineering trades and feasibility studies
- Collaborate with our mission operations as well as data product teams to ensure that the satellite system meets the needs of our customer
- Participate in the assembly, integration and testing (AI&T) of satellite systems for test planning and anomaly resolution
- Provide verification and validation of the satellite system and ground systems, including environmental, functional, and end-to-end testing
- Lead the technical coordination of multiple teams, including Mechanical, Thermal, ADSCS/GNC, Propulsion, Electrical, and Manufacturing engineering teams
What You Bring:
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