Senior Software Engineer, Mission Optimization is open at Planet in San Francisco, CA. The posting gives a salary of $163K - $203K. Posted on Sep 30, 2026, and still on Planet’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
The Mission Optimization team is responsible for continuously improving the operations and productivity of the world’s largest Earth observation satellite constellation. We identify, triage, and resolve the bottlenecks that limit what our fleets can deliver – from contact scheduling and downlink latency, to collection capacity, to concepts of operation for our future missions. As a Senior Software Engineer on this…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Planet’s careers page.
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