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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Planet · Arlington, VA · On-site

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About Planet

Discover how Planet's daily satellite imagery and insights empower global decisions and actions with a multidimensional view of our changing planet. Backed by Felicis and Lux.

About the role

Planet’s Analytics Team for Global Monitoring focuses on novel geospatial and time series analytics for customers requiring robust change detection, object detection, and generative AI capabilities. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will drive hands-on engineering and modeling for Defense and Intelligence applications. You’ll implement novel embeddings-based change detection and advanced computer vision techniques.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years of relevant experience of which 6+ years of experience is in machine learning
  • Ability to conduct a rigorous evaluation of results and internal communication of algorithm failure modes
  • Expertise with data science, time series methods, computer vision, and embeddings
  • Ability to implement, train, and optimize neural networks
  • Experience wrangling large datasets, ideally with geospatial libraries, combined with frameworks like PyTorch/TF for model development and training
  • Ability to experiment with model architectures, and derive data-driven insights to iteratively improve performance and accuracy
More about this role

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.

Planet’s Analytics Team for Global Monitoring focuses on novel...

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