# Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Planet

- Company: Planet
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.planet.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Arlington, VA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetlabs/jobs/8142914
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/planet-senior-machine-learning-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Global Monitoring Analytics