Planet

Space Systems Engineer, Space Operations

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Base Salary

$145k - $181k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain real-time, mission-critical software for satellite operations.
  • Support daily fleet checks by identifying, triaging, and resolving satellite anomalies.
  • Write scripts to aggregate satellite data and generate system-monitoring metrics.
  • Test and deploy flight-software upgrades, debug anomalies, and perform on-orbit experiments.
  • Create and maintain operational procedures and provide operational insights for future satellites.

Requirements

  • Actively enrolled in an accredited university program.
  • Software-development experience, particularly in Python or similar languages.
  • Familiarity with the space environment and its challenges, including space operations.
  • Experience with statistical analysis and data-driven problem solving.
  • Effective communication, collaboration, initiative, and adaptability in a technical team.
  • Preferred experience with Git, GitLab, Docker, Jenkins, Bash, Linux, Sentry, Datadog, automation and optimization tools, or open-source software contributions.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans; a health savings account with company contribution; paid time off and holidays; 16 weeks of paid parental leave; wellness and employee assistance programs; home-office, phone, and internet reimbursements; tuition reimbursement and LinkedIn Learning; equity; commuter benefits; and paid volunteering time off.
  • Part-time temporary role expected to last 12 months.
  • Hybrid position requiring work from the San Francisco office three days per week.

Tech Stack

BashDatadogDockerGitJenkinsLinuxPython

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