Senior ML Engineering Manager — Satellite Imagery Platform

Planetlabs; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 160,600 - 200,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vis

Health Savings Account (HSA) with a公司

Generous Paid Time Off

16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave

Wellness Program and EAP

Home Office Reimbursement

Monthly Phone and Internet Reimburse

Tuition Reimbursement

Equity

Commuter Benefits

Volunteering Paid Time Off

Job summary

Planet is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to guide and mentor high‑performing ML teams delivering defense and intelligence products. You will lead research‑to‑production work, design algorithms, and maintain pipelines in a distributed cloud environment, with a focus on enabling your team to excel in a collaborative, hybrid setup.

In this role you will mentor engineers, drive efficient shipping of product improvements, align with product management, and establish strong engineering practices

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant work experience, with 4+ years of supervisory/leadership experience, with ability to build, retain, and grow diverse, geographically dispersed teams
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
• Experience in delivering data-intensive software products at scale
• Solid understanding of fundamentals in software engineering, statistics and machine learning
• Success in establishing and evolving operational practices in a software engineering organization
• Experience owning and maintaining ML models in production
• Experience with distributed cloud computing
• Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to explain complex technical issues accurately to technical and non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

• Guide your team of machine learning engineers to deliver successful ML products
• Mentor, coach and unblock your team members, helping them succeed and grow their careers
• Ensure efficient shipping of product improvements and features
• Partner with your product management counterparts to take strategic and tactical decisions
• Define and implement team processes, including for task planning, code reviews and on-call rotations
• Establish sound engineering practices to build software and design training & inference pipelines
• Collaborate across our engineering organization and other cross functional teams to align efforts

Skills

Leadership

ML/AI

Software engineering

Distributed cloud

Data-intensive software

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Job description

Planet is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to guide and mentor high‑performing ML teams delivering defense and intelligence products. You will lead research‑to‑production work, design algorithms, and maintain pipelines in a distributed cloud environment, with a focus on enabling your team to excel in a collaborative, hybrid setup.

In this role you will mentor engineers, drive efficient shipping of product improvements, align with product management, and establish strong engineering practices