Planet

Senior Forward Deployment Engineer, Strategic Customer Engagements U.S.

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Washington, DC, USASenior
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Base Salary

$161k - $201k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the full software development lifecycle from customer discovery and problem decomposition through design, implementation, and deployment.
  • Build robust full-stack software, including front-end, back-end, data integrations, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Collaborate directly with customers to understand operational challenges and translate them into technical requirements.
  • Analyze customer solutions for reusable patterns that can inform broader platform development.
  • Use AI tooling and an AI-first approach to accelerate iteration and adapt to evolving requirements.
  • Mentor team members, conduct code reviews, and support a collaborative engineering culture.
  • Deliver critical customer commitments on schedule and support strategic customer relationships.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of relevant software engineering or equivalent technical experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or another relevant field.
  • Experience with geospatial software development and concepts, including tools such as Rasterio, Fiona, Shapely, OpenLayers, and GDAL.
  • Experience with AWS or GCP and proficiency in Python.
  • Knowledge of coding standards, code reviews, source control management, and testing methodologies.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to internal and external stakeholders and adapt to shifting requirements.
  • Willingness to travel 30–50% to customer sites within the region.
  • Current active TS or TS/TSI security clearance.
  • Preferred experience with JavaScript, Java, Go, or C#, and with defense and security customer domains.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, plus a company contribution to a Health Savings Account.
  • Generous paid time off, holidays, company-wide days off, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Wellness and Employee Assistance Programs, home office reimbursement, and monthly phone and internet reimbursement.
  • Tuition reimbursement, access to LinkedIn Learning, equity, commuter benefits for employees local to an office, and paid volunteering time off.
  • Full-time hybrid work requiring three days per week from the Arlington, VA office, with 30–50% regional travel to customer sites.

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Forward Deployed
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