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Leads and scales multidisciplinary engineering teams developing defense and intelligence software products from satellite imagery and APIs. Owns architecture, data models, AI/ML integration, deployment pipelines, system reliability, performance SLAs, and ITAR/EAR compliance. Partners with product and executive leaders to deliver geospatial analytics, real-time alerting, automated detection, and agentic workflows across commercial and sovereign cloud environments.

Leads and scales multidisciplinary engineering teams developing mission-critical defense and intelligence software from satellite imagery and APIs. Owns architecture, data models, AI/ML integration, deployment pipelines, system reliability, SLAs, and ITAR/EAR compliance. Partners with product and executive leadership to deliver geospatial analytics, real-time alerting, automated detection, and agentic workflows across commercial and sovereign cloud environments.

Develop and optimize machine learning models for defense and intelligence applications, including computer vision, time-series analysis, embeddings-based change detection, and satellite imagery analytics. Build scalable preprocessing and inference pipelines, integrate models with software platforms, and establish testing, validation, monitoring, and reliability frameworks. Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to deploy high-throughput solutions globally.

Analyze and visualize data, define product and business metrics, develop reliable data models and pipelines, and build self-service dashboards and datasets. The role supports product performance, user research, business strategy, and customer satisfaction while collaborating with data scientists, analysts, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders. Responsibilities include maintaining data models, troubleshooting analytics solutions, and contributing through discussions and code reviews.

Analyze and visualize data to solve product, business, and operational problems. Define performance metrics with stakeholders, develop and maintain accurate data models, and build datasets, dashboards, self-service tools, and data pipelines. The role uses SQL, Python, Git, dbt, and Omni, supports geospatial and enterprise data analysis, and contributes to a collaborative team through discussions and code reviews.

Leads complex technical programs for Planet’s Insights Platform, coordinating product, engineering, design, data science, and external developers. Owns roadmap execution, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, requirements, stakeholder communication, and delivery predictability. The role includes managing migrations from legacy tools to unified platforms, optimizing cross-team processes, coordinating global teams, and improving workflows through AI and operational efficiencies.

Own the connection between Planet’s shared platform and Defense & Intelligence solutions. Partner with Forward Deployed Engineering to translate defense workflows into reusable platform capabilities, prioritize mission requirements, scale demand intake, and develop a D&I product roadmap. Drive vertical product strategy for Global Monitoring Service and Maritime Domain Awareness offerings, balancing technical trade-offs, customer needs, operational impact, and long-term procurement models.

Own the product strategy and roadmap for Planet’s defense and intelligence tasking solutions. Translate mission rules into satellite collection workflows, optimize tasking across constellations, and convert recurring field integrations into reusable platform capabilities. Partner with engineering, sales, compliance, security, and adjacent product teams to deliver low-latency, export-compliant solutions for defense customers. Prioritize technical backlogs, communicate trade-offs, and represent operational requirements across shared platform products.

Design and optimize complex satellite PCB and PCBA layouts for RF, microwave, power, digital, analog, and mixed-signal systems. Manage Altium libraries, fabrication and assembly documentation, configuration control, material and process selection, and vendor coordination. Ensure high-quality, high-reliability production meeting IPC standards, review subcontractor layouts, and support DFM, DFT, and design rule checks. The role is hybrid in San Francisco and involves export-controlled information.

Lead Planet's global talent acquisition strategy and team, build recruiting operating models (capacity planning, forecasting, analytics), manage systems and external partners, partner with executives to deliver hiring outcomes, champion inclusive candidate experience, and use data to measure and improve hiring performance across regions.