About the Role:

Planet is developing the next generation of small satellite buses, featuring high-resolution optical imaging payloads, a space-based data center connected by optical inter-satellite links (OISLs), and high-speed RF/Microwave communication links. We continuously iterate on and develop small spacecraft communication systems—including board-level hardware, antennas, and ground station equipment—to achieve record data rates and link performance. Our system utilizes proprietary and industry-standard modems, transceivers across several bands, optical laser communication systems, and a worldwide network of ground stations.

We are seeking an experienced Satcom Modem Engineer to develop and mature our next-generation onboard satcom links, ground radios, and antenna systems, pushing the frontiers of satellite communications. You will architect, design, simulate, implement, and validate cutting-edge software-defined Satcom radios. Responsibilities include characterizing the SDR link performance of Planet’s next-generation S through Ka-band and optical terminals, selecting vendors, and managing subcontractors for Satcom solutions. You will facilitate and conduct rigorous testing on space and ground communication subsystems to ensure flight readiness. Success requires close collaboration with RF, EE, Flight SW, systems engineering, missions, and manufacturing teams.

The ideal candidate thrives in an agile, fast-paced environment and is comfortable with ambiguity.

This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our San Francisco office 3 days per week.

Impact You'll Own:

• Develop GnuRadio-based ground modem solutions.
• Architect, design, and verify space segment software-defined radios and modems.
• Lead on-orbit performance validation for end-to-end satellite communications systems.
• Lead RF/MW/Optical Communications system integration and testing.

What You Bring:

• Strong experience with DSP algorithms, digital communication theory, and implementation (including digital modulation, synchronization, error correction, floating-point, and fixed-point design).
• Experience with Software Defined Radios (SDR), specifically GNU Radio and Linux development tools.
• Experience defining and measuring radio performance metrics in real time (e.g., SNR, BER, PER, and constellation visualization).
• Experience with state-of-the-art RF System-on-Chip (SoC) implementations.
• BS in Electrical/Computer Science or equivalent experience with a focus on digital communicatons.

What Makes You Stand Out: 

• MS or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a focus on digital communications.
• Expertise in Matlab and Simulink for modem design.
• Experience with SDR platforms and associated signal processing libraries (e.g., GNURadio).
• Proficiency in Linux, Python, and data analysis tools.
• Experience with optical communications and links for space applications.
• Expertise in Radar and/or Phased Array technology.

Application Deadline:

August 1, 2026 at 11:59pm PST

EAR/ITAR Requirements:

This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Earth Station Engineer  

As an Earth Station Operations Engineer, you will play a key role in the operation, monitoring, and maintenance of satellite earth stations and supporting infrastructure. Leveraging your technical expertise and operational experience, you will ensure reliable, safe, and compliant satellite communications. This includes supporting 24/7 global operations, diagnosing and resolving issues, and coordinating closely with internal teams, vendors, and external partners. 

If you enjoy cross-functional collaboration, solving complex problems, and operating in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment, this role is a strong fit.

Role 

• Provide end-to-end technical oversight and operational support for earth stations, including RF/IF chains, antenna systems, tracking, and environmental systems
• Monitor operations, perform station bring-ups, execute link activations, implement configuration changes, and drive performance optimization
• Troubleshoot and resolve anomalies; lead fault isolation across ground, mission, space, and network segments through resolution and closure
• Plan and execute preventive and corrective maintenance, including fieldwork, remote support, and vendor coordination
• Collaborate cross-functionally with satellite operations, engineering, IT, network, payload, software, and program teams across both nominal and anomaly conditions
• Develop and maintain SOPs, MOPs, contingency procedures, and operational documentation; ensure configuration control and system accuracy
• Build and maintain tools and dashboards for telemetry, trending, and system health monitoring
• Document incidents, root cause analyses, corrective actions, and lessons learned; communicate status, risks, and escalations to stakeholders
• Support testing, commissioning, and acceptance of new stations, upgrades, and system changes; participate in shift and on-call rotations
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, safety, and customer requirements while driving improvements in reliability, automation, efficiency, and scalability

Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (or related field), or 3+ years of relevant experience in earth station operations
• Experience with earth station systems, including antennas, link budgets, and RF front-/back-end equipment
• Hands-on experience with antenna operations, calibration, diagnostics, and monitoring
• Proficiency with RF test equipment (e.g., spectrum analyzers, signal generators) and RF troubleshooting
• Experience working in 24/7 or on-call environments; strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and sense of urgency
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to operate effectively in fast-paced environments
• Willingness to travel (~20%) and ability to obtain a security clearance
• Physically capable of fieldwork (lifting, climbing, standing, bending, etc.)

Bonus

• Experience working in an Earth Station Operations Center
• Hands-on experience with ground systems (e.g., CPI, Kratos), including antenna control and tracking systems
• Working knowledge of networking (Ethernet, IP, TCP) and regulatory frameworks (FCC, ITU, local authorities)
• Experience with scripting or software tools for automation and monitoring

About the Role:

The Electro-Optical Systems team at Planet is seeking an Opto-Mechanical Engineer to help drive the design of payloads in Planet’s fleet of Earth-imaging satellites. Your mission will be to champion our payload design efforts, with a specific focus on opto-mechanical design and manufacturing. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned opto-mechanical designer who has led optical system engineering efforts across multiple programs from conceptual design through flight. As a member of the Electro-Optical Systems team within Planet’s Space Systems division, you will be a key contributor and stakeholder in Planet’s agile aerospace approach to spacecraft design, and will work hand-in-glove with optical engineering, structural analysis, thermal engineering,  and reliability & qualification, as well as the rest of Planet’s leading-edge spacecraft design and manufacturing teams. 

This is a full-time, in-office position based in our San Francisco HQ 5 days per week.

Impact You'll Own:

• Own the opto-mechanical manufacturing process of optical payloads on Planet’s next-generation satellites
• Design the manufacturing line for mid-volume production of optical payloads. Make first principle based, data-driven decisions throughout the design process to ensure efficient assembly and test processes
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as structural, thermal analysts and optical engineer groups to drive and perform analyses to ensure payloads meet stiffness, strength, thermal, and launch survivability requirements, as well as maintain on-orbit performance through STOP (Structural, Thermal, Optical Performance)
• Drive part and assembly design, manage fabrication with key vendors, perform failure analysis, and execute tolerance stackup and GD&T analyses to ensure precision and reliability
• Develop and maintain comprehensive design documentation 
• Lead technical presentations and reviews across all design review gates
• Support test planning and qualification test campaigns
• Be hands-on with flight and test hardware

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 4+ years experience owning the development of opto-mechanical products from requirements through conceptual design, testing and manufacturing
• Experience designing for high-reliability space environments including launch survivability, vacuum conditions, on-orbit performance through thermal conditions (STOP)
• Experience in the design and fabrication of optical assemblies, incorporating components made from glass, carbon fiber, metals, ceramics, epoxies, as well as mechanisms and electrical elements
• Practical and direct engagement with hardware, from prototyping to production and testing phases
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience working in a dynamic environment while driving projects to completion
• Good verbal and visual communication skills

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Expertise in optics / opto-mechanical manufacturing, metrology, alignment and calibration
• Ability to build out the manufacturing line for precision optical systems
• Experience with dynamic hardware builds, vibration and shock testing, telescope assembly, and optical performance testing
• Experience applying systems engineering principles to optimize optical payload integration, focusing on requirements management, trade-off analysis, and balancing system-level constraints such as cost, schedule, and performance
• Ability to drive manufacturers and DFM/DFA
• Proficiency in SolidWorks, Zemax, Matlab, Visual Basic, Python and/or C/C++

Application Deadline:

July 1, 2026 at 11:59pm PT

EAR/ITAR Requirements:

This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Power Electronics Test Engineer

As a Power Electronics Test Engineer at Astranis, you will be responsible for developing, designing, and implementing tests and test systems (test support custom hardware) for all the custom electronics on our spacecraft. You'll prove that our suite of power designs work across environments to guarantee success on orbit.

Role

• Develop and design automated hardware and software solutions to test+validate electronics hardware
• Design PCBA's to interface with flight hardware
• Write software in Python to control bench equipment, devices under test, and other test hardware
• Work closely with the design team to provide feedback and insight through qualification and acceptance process
• Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team.

Requirements

• Associate's or B.S. degree in electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent technical degree
• A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development
• Comfort with ambiguity and turning high-level requirements into clear design/test objectives
• Hands-on experience using electrical test equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, eloads, etc.)
• Experience with debugging circuits with embedded software, from oscilloscope to scripting
• Experience using Python
• Don't meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.

Bonus

• Understanding and experience in environmental testing such as vibration, shock, thermal, burn-in, and TVAC
• Power electronics experience such as switching converters and load switches
• Experience using Altium Designer
• Experience with designing and building electrical harnesses and connectors
• Experience automating tests, test equipment, or similar instrumentation

Environmental Science Associates (ESA) seeks a Senior Coastal Engineer to provide leadership for ESA’s coastal engineering and resilience practice across California and beyond. We are looking for a proven leader with 15+ years of work experience, a passion for coastal processes, coastal hazards, engineering with nature, sea-level-rise, and resilience planning, and the desire to help lead, grow, and mentor our top-notch coastal engineering group. This is a leadership role at the forefront of coastal resilience—spanning coastal hazards analysis, adaptation planning, and implementation—while delivering high-impact solutions.

Who You Are

• You are a professionally licensed engineer with 15+ years of experience leading coastal engineering projects, including expertise in nature-based solutions, coastal resilience planning, coastal hazards analysis (waves, runup, erosion, and flooding) as well as flood management along the U.S. Pacific Coast and beyond.
• You have led and managed complex coastal engineering projects from concept through construction, including coastal hazards and vulnerability assessments, engineering evaluations, and erosion/flooding studies, technical reports, design plan sets, specifications, cost estimates (PS&E packages), construction schedules, and/or construction support.
• You are adept in the engineering steps required to move projects from concept to construction bid package, including coordination with multidisciplinary teams such as geotechnical, structural, and hydraulic engineers as well as coastal planners and landscape architects.
• You have provided senior engineer review and oversight on large-scale coastal engineering projects, with an emphasis on Living Shorelines, nature-based solutions and multi-benefit flood and erosion protection, and have experience integrating coastal engineering with planning, economics, and resilience strategy development.
• You have led, managed, mentored, and/or supervised multi-disciplinary design and engineering teams including delegating and guiding engineers through simple to complex tasks. You are an effective communicator who fosters teamwork and inclusion, and shares knowledge and expertise with more junior staff through mentoring and direct supervision. 
• You have a Bachelor’s degree or higher in coastal engineering or a closely related discipline and a Professional Engineers license in California, Washington, and/or Oregon.

What You Will Do for ESA

• As a senior leader, contribute to annual and long-term strategic planning for our coastal engineering and coastal resilience practice. Cultivate best practices, facilitate knowledge sharing and technical training, mentor and manage more junior staff, develop and oversee implementation of engineering QA/QC protocols specific to coastal engineering and analysis, help manage workflow and workplans and make staffing and recruitment recommendations.
• Identify opportunities, track markets and clients and lead strategy to link and leverage resilience/sea level rise planning with ESA’s coastal sciences and engineering expertise.
• Leverage ESA’s multi-disciplinary practices across regions to help connect, integrate, drive and expand our teams’ demonstrated capabilities in coastal hazards analysis, coastal resilience planning, and sea level rise adaptation firmwide.
• Collaborate with other engineers, coastal planners, hydrologists, geomorphologists, landscape architects, ecologists, biologists, economists, and other specialists in advancing coastal engineering, resilience planning and habitat restoration approaches and other project solutions from concept to implementation. 
• Help plan, design and/or manage a wide array of important, challenging and exciting projects – leading efforts from coastal risk assessment through implementation – including coastal hazards assessments (such as wave runup, flooding, and erosion), sea level rise vulnerability analyses, adaptation planning, Living Shorelines design, ecosystem restoration, climate change resilience/sea level rise adaptation, fisheries habitat enhancement, and engineering with nature.  
• Thrive in a fast-paced, challenging environment and be able to manage multiple responsibilities and deadlines, while working on a team or independently.
• Be located in one of ESA’s CA Regions (Northern or Southern California.

What’s Special About ESA

Joining ESA means becoming part of a close-knit team of environmental professionals who contribute to outstanding projects, improve environmental stewardship, and advance a more sustainable and resilient future for our communities and wild places.

At ESA, we provide benefits such as medical, dental, and vision insurance (paid at 70% for you AND your family), annual allocations of company shares through our ESOP, a 401(k) plan with company match, annual performance-based bonuses, and paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays, to name a few.

We also provide specific programs whether you want to further your technical expertise, sharpen your business acumen, or help lead the next generation of employee-owners. We want to support you in reaching your career goals through tuition reimbursement, professional development bonuses, and attendance at conferences.

What’s Special About ESA’s Coastal Engineering Group

Our Coastal Engineering team is leading efforts throughout the West and Gulf Coasts to understand the increasing vulnerability of our shores, infrastructure, and communities and working to develop adaptation strategies and sound land use planning and policy. ESA has particular expertise in coastal hazards analysis under existing and future conditions, including sea level rise, wave runup, coastal flooding, and erosion processes, as well as adaptation planning and risk management, and nature-based adaptation and design solutions.

We integrate traditional engineering expertise with an understanding of natural physical processes to develop state-of-the practice, sustainable green and gray solutions.

Our work spans the full continuum from coastal hazards and vulnerability assessment to adaptation planning, economic evaluation, and engineering design and implementation, working closely with planners, economists, and stakeholders to develop actionable, fundable solutions.

We are implementing these innovative and creative Living Shoreline and nature-based sea level rise adaptation projects for a diverse range of clients throughout the West and Gulf coasts, including gravel beaches, horizontal levees, oyster reefs, and marsh creation with reused dredged sediments. We have designed some of the most notable managed shoreline retreat projects that reduce coastal hazards while accommodating and enhancing recreational opportunities, including Birch Bay and Lowman Beach in the Northwest, and Surfer’s Point and San Francisco’s Ocean Beach in California. Along the Gulf of Mexico, we have worked with the Gulf States, counties, parishes, and federal agencies to plan and prioritize coastal resilience and restoration projects funded by the RESTORE Act. We also specialize in coastal lagoons and have developed management and enhancement plans for dozens of lagoons throughout the West Coast.

The coastal engineering group is part of our 90-person Environmental Hydrology & Design practice, which includes civil and coastal engineers, coastal scientists, hydrologists, hydrographers, geomorphologists and landscape architects. Much of our work is oriented toward the restoration and adaptive capacity of habitat and ecosystem function, often as part of multi-benefit flood management and/or recreation projects. As a highly-integrated team, we value creative thinking, teamwork, and a passion for protecting our fragile yet precious creeks, rivers, wetlands, and coasts.

To read about some of our representative projects, check out these links:

• • Ocean Beach Master Plan
  • Heron's Head Park Shoreline Resilience Project
  • Giant Marsh Living Shoreline
  • Surfers’ Point Shoreline Management 
  • Oceanside Local Coastal Program Update
  • Aliso Creek Estuary Restoration
  • Philippe Park Living Shorelines Project
  • Rock Creek Ponds Ecosystem Restoration

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Reliability Test Intern (Fall 2026)

Internships at Astranis typically last for twelve weeks, and are hourly roles designed for students who are currently enrolled at a four-year university. 

As an Intern, you will have an amazing opportunity to work on hard problems — we pride ourselves on giving everyone at Astranis a chance to do meaningful work on complex projects, no matter their seniority. Many past interns have designed and tested hardware/software that is heading to space on our first satellite, and many of them are now full-time employees at Astranis. 

If you have already graduated from a four-year university, please apply to be an Associate Engineer.

Role

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to plan reliability tests for satellite hardware
• Support test plan and procedure development based on design specifications and mission profiles
• Set up, operate, and monitor environmental test equipment, including thermal chambers, thermal vacuum systems, vibration shaker tables, and combined thermal vibe chambers
• Execute reliability tests such as thermal cycling, thermal vacuum, and vibration
• Collect, analyze, and document test data to identify potential failure modes and ensure hardware meets reliability targets
• Design test fixtures, setup instrumentation and data acquisition systems

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field
• Strong interest in hardware reliability, testing, and hands-on engineering work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize effectively, and adapt to changing project needs
• Strong communication skills
• Must be onsite 5 days per week

Bonus

• Hands-on experience with environmental or reliability testing
• Familiarity with test equipment such as test chambers and DAQs
• Experience with data analysis tools in Python, MATLAB, or similar
• Exposure to hardware design, integration, or lab-based engineering projects
• Understanding of failure analysis, root cause investigation, or reliability engineering principles
• Previous internship, research, or project experience in aerospace or hardware-focused environments

About the role:

We’re looking for a Senior Hardware Systems Engineer to join our fast-growing product line and team. In the day-to-day, you will be responsible for driving the EE aspects of the architecture and design of products based on thorough feasibility, design, and cost studies encompassing key component selection, thermals, antenna, etc. We have a tremendous amount of telemetry and access to customers that help guide our design process, and you will work directly with them to design the right product. We run a collaborative process working closely with Product Management, PD, FW, EPM, NPI, and Hardware leadership to make excellent tradeoffs and choices. Throughout this process, you’ll share your expertise with other engineers. The US and Taiwan EE teams are supported by the Supply Chain team, laboratories, JDM design resources, and a growing supply base. You will work closely with these internal and external partners to achieve our objectives.

This is a hybrid position requiring three days per week in our San Francisco, CA office and two days working remotely. This position requires travel up to 25% of the time and proximity to an international airport. Relocation assistance will be provided for this role. We are open to candidates residing in the U.S. who are willing and able to relocate to the Bay Area.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact – helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best. 

In this role, you will: 

• Ship successful products at scale (high volume).
• Conduct research: Stay informed of the latest silicon possibilities from all the top semiconductor companies. 
• Be an architect: Evaluate system feature tradeoffs and create the system specifications for development with product management and cross-functional engineering teams. 
• Spearhead the development process from prototyping through field validation according to performance, cost and schedule goals.
• Manage: We bolster our internal development team with top JDM companies to design, validate, certify and manufacture quality products, certification labs and other external consultants. 
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 5+ years of experience shipping high volume hardware programs with ODM and JDM partners.
• Systems design expertise such as chipset/SoC selection, power optimization, antennas/RF, batteries, sensors, PCB design, etc.
• Proven record navigating tradeoffs between design, manufacturability, schedule, and cost.
• Worked on a wide variety of systems for different use cases including automotive, indoor and outdoor industrial areas leveraging low power, wireless (LTE, BLE, WiFi, GPS), embedded AI/ML, imaging, sensors, etc.
• Proven record of system bring up/debug including desense, validation, power, etc.
• BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
• Ability to travel up to 25% when necessary.
• Strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and drive independent work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience with certifications and testing involved with industrial and automotive settings (ISO16750, AECQ100, etc).
• Schematic and layout experience in Altium and Cadence Allegro.
• Systems design expertise with cameras, extreme environmental conditions.
• Experience with design for supply, design for reliability / testing, design for manufacture.

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About the role:

Samsara’s Hardware Reliability team enables an exceptional customer experience by enabling reliable hardware, identifying opportunities in product performance, and engaging cross-functionally to resolve key issues. Samsara’s Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer will design quality processes that guarantee the high-quality standards of Samsara's hardware. 

The Reliability engineer is responsible for implementing and executing comprehensive reliability strategies/plans that span the entire product development lifecycle from concept to warranty repair. The Reliability engineer quickly aggregates and analyzes test, field performance, and manufacturing data to drive actions internally and with our suppliers to ensure that we are building the highest quality product. Cross-functional collaboration with hardware, firmware, and operations is an essential part of the role.

This is a hybrid position open to candidates residing in the US, requiring you to visit our office in San Francisco three times a week.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper-growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together, and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best. 

In this role, you will:

• Work cross-functionally with partners in Hardware/Firmware Engineering, Operations, and Support to ensure our customers have a best-in-class product experience.
• Design in reliability through the product development process and own product reliability modeling, testing, and validation.
• Set reliability requirements and allocate reliability targets to subsystems.
• Lead product quality investigations in addition to root cause and corrective actions with internal cross-functional team members and external vendors.
• Evaluate and investigate defect trends that improve incoming material and outgoing product quality.
• Identify opportunities for corrective actions and continuous improvement through field failure investigations.
• Create feedback loops to continuously improve the products in the field and the next generation.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• MSc/PhD in Engineering, Material Science, Physics, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience working in a Hardware Reliability Engineer role.
• Experience with stress testing; fatigue testing, vibration, and shock testing, electrical stress, and environmental stress.
• Experience with failure analysis methodologies.
• Understanding the physics of failure and the application of stresses to underlying failure mechanisms.
• Experience with Design for Reliability concepts.
• Experience with JDM development model.
• Experience with third-party test oversight, and test execution.
• Self-motivated, proactive, creative and critical problem-solving capabilities.

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Senior Mechatronics Engineer

As a Senior Mechatronics Engineer at Astranis, you will be responsible for developing, designing, and implementing tests and test systems (test support custom hardware) for all the custom mechanisms on our spacecraft. You'll prove that our suite of mechanism designs work across environments to guarantee success on orbit through rigorous tests on the benchtop and in environments (thermal, vacuum, vibe).

Role

• Develop and design automated hardware and software solutions to test+validate mechanism hardware, interfacing with motors and controllers
• Write software in Python to control bench equipment, devices under test, and other test hardware
• Design and own testing racks used to develop, prototype and qualify mechanisms
• Work closely with the design team to provide feedback and insight through prototyping and qualification process
• Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in mechatronics, electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent technical degree
• 4+ years of relevant experience
• A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development
• Comfort with ambiguity and turning high-level requirements into clear design/test objectives
• Hands-on experience using electrical test equipment (multimeters, torque cells/sensors, power supplies, load cells, servomotors, encoders, etc.) and interfacing with mechanical hardware
• Experience using Python
• Don't meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.

Bonus

• Understanding and experience in environmental testing such as vibration, shock, thermal, burn-in, and TVAC
• Mechatronics experience using hardware such as motors and mechanisms
• Experience with CAD software (Solidworks, NX, etc.)
• Experience with designing and building electrical harnesses and connectors
• Experience automating tests, test equipment, or similar instrumentation

Avionics Engineer

As an electrical engineer on the Avionics team at Astranis, you will be responsible for designing the flight hardware that forms the backbone of our satellite's internal communication, power distribution, sensor aggregation, and flight computer systems. You'll take ownership of the full lifecycle for your hardware designs and work collaboratively with engineers across the organization to develop creative and innovative solutions that will push the envelope of satellite technology.

Role

• Design circuits and PCBs for various spacecraft subsystems
• Characterize, test, and validate hardware systems across the spacecraft
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to architecture, design, and execute for satellite avionics
• Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent technical degree
• 2+ years experience in PCB/hardware design
• A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development
• Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test hardware from scratch
• Strong analog/mixed-signal circuit design skill
• Experience with debugging circuits with embedded software, from oscilloscope to firmware

Bonus

• Experience with FPGAs, microcontrollers, and communication schemes (RS-485, SPI, Ethernet, I2C)
• Experience with C, C++, or Python
• Radiation effects knowledge
• Environmental test experience

Electrical Engineer

As an electrical engineer on the Avionics team at Astranis, you will be responsible for designing the flight hardware that forms the backbone of our satellite's internal communication, power distribution, sensor aggregation, and flight computer systems. You'll take ownership of the full lifecycle for your hardware designs and work collaboratively with engineers across the organization to develop creative and innovative solutions that will push the envelope of satellite technology.

Role

• Design circuits and PCBs for various spacecraft subsystems
• Characterize, test, and validate hardware systems across the spacecraft
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to architecture, design, and execute for satellite avionics
• Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent technical degree
• 2+ years experience in PCB/hardware design
• A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development
• Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test hardware from scratch
• Strong analog/mixed-signal circuit design skills
• Experience with debugging circuits with embedded software, from oscilloscope to firmware

Bonus

• Experience with FPGAs, microcontrollers, and communication schemes (RS-485, SPI, Ethernet, I2C)
• Experience with C, C++, or Python
• Radiation effects knowledge
• Environmental test experience

Environmental Test Engineer Associate (Fall 2026)

Associate Engineer positions typically last for twelve weeks, and are salaried roles designed for students who have already received a bachelor's degree (or who will have done so before working at Astranis). 
 
As an Associate Engineer, you will have an amazing opportunity to work on hard problems — we pride ourselves on giving everyone at Astranis a chance to do meaningful work on challenging projects, and our Associate Engineers work on projects that are of equal importance and difficulty to the projects we give our full-time employees. Many past Associate Engineers have designed and tested hardware/software that is currently in space or heading to space shortly on on of our satellites, and many of them are now full-time employees at Astranis.
 
If you are still a college student, please apply to join us as an Intern. 

Role

• Work on an interdisciplinary team to design, build, and test satellite hardware and software.

• Operate and setup environmental test equipment including:

  • Ambient thermal chambers 

  • Thermal Vacuum Chambers (TVAC)
  • Vibration shaker tables 
  • EMI/EMC test equipment

• Learn to use various pieces of test equipment and instruments (thermal chambers, vibration tables, DAQs, oscilloscopes, etc.) to successfully execute test plans.

• Set up, operate, and conduct environmental testing including vibration, acoustics, thermal, thermal vacuum, RF

Requirements

• Have a four-year degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent technical degree)

• A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development

• Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize time effectively 

• Strong communication skills

• Familiarity with spacecraft systems and operation

• Must be onsite 5 days a week

Bonus

• Hands-on experience in designing, building, and testing 

• Experience writing Python code to: Interface with test equipment, process large datasets, visualize data

• Experience in CAD

• Direct electrical or mechanical design experience

• Demonstrated ability to debug hardware and software problems under time pressure

Environmental Test Engineer Intern (Fall 2026)

Internships at Astranis typically last for twelve weeks, and are hourly roles designed for students who are currently enrolled at a four-year university.

As an Intern, you will have an amazing opportunity to work on hard problems — we pride ourselves on giving everyone at Astranis a chance to do meaningful work on challenging projects, no matter their seniority. Many past interns have designed and tested hardware/software that is currently in space or heading to space shortly on on of our satellites, and many of them are now full-time employees at Astranis.

If you have already graduated from a four-year university, please apply to be an Associate Engineer.

Role

• Work on an interdisciplinary team to design, build, and test satellite hardware and software.

• Operate and setup environmental test equipment including:

  • Ambient thermal chambers 

  • Thermal Vacuum Chambers (TVAC)
  • Vibration shaker tables 
  • EMI/EMC test equipment

• Learn to use various pieces of test equipment and instruments (thermal chambers, vibration tables, DAQs, oscilloscopes, etc.) to successfully execute test plans.

• Set up, operate, and conduct environmental testing including vibration, acoustics, thermal, thermal vacuum, RF

Requirements

• Have a four-year degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent technical degree)

• A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development

• Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize time effectively 

• Strong communication skills

• Familiarity with spacecraft systems and operation

• Must be onsite 5 days a week

Bonus

• Hands-on experience in designing, building, and testing 

• Experience writing Python code to: Interface with test equipment, process large datasets, visualize data

• Experience in CAD

• Direct electrical or mechanical design experience

• Demonstrated ability to debug hardware and software problems under time pressure

About the Role

The Ground Systems team is responsible for developing the components to support the aircraft landing, charging, loading and launching.  We are looking for an Electrical Engineer with a strong foundation in EE design and an excellent grasp of electronics development, processes, and tools. In this role, you will develop hardware for our next generation ground systems which involves designing electronics in at least one of the following fields: Microprocessor, high-speed communication, GNSS, brushless DC motor drive, power supply, battery charger and more. 

These components are at the core of enabling autonomous takeoff and landing for our fleet of next generation aircraft and seamless integration with our shipper sites that will enable Zipline’s impact to expand from 100,000 deliveries/year to 100 million across the globe. In addition, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with world class engineers across all disciplines and experience levels. Zipline values personal development highly and encourages an environment of continuous learning and mentorship. 

The Ground Systems team encounters many challenges when designing robust systems to provide life-saving service in some of the harshest environments on Earth. At the start of any project, our team plays a vital role in system architecture, designing for performance, reliability, and fault tolerance, while balancing mass and cost. Included in this is the design of an UL compliant system to ensure the safety of employees, customers, and bystanders. Our sophisticated autonomous fleet also requires us to build custom electro-mechanical solutions with high performance embedded computing and high speed communication. To achieve Zipline’s goal of serving anyone anywhere, all aspects of a design must also be successful in a wide range of real-world environments by being robust against environmental, ESD, and EMI threats. These are just some of the many challenges that make us excited to go to work everyday.

What You’ll Do

• Own the electrical design for volume production through a full design cycle including requirements, prototype, schematic capture, layout, and validation.
• Making impactful design decisions daily, while working with a high level of independence. 
• Lead trade studies, understand competing design priorities, and provide direction and clarity for burning down risk.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with reliability, mechanical, embedded, and systems engineers in all stages of development, including:
• Concept: System requirement, specification
• Design: Schematic capture, PCB layout, system integration
• Validation: Function and reliability test
• Production: DFM, design drawings, manufacturing, EOL test, certification
• Deployment: Troubleshoot field issues, develop rapid mitigations, roll learnings into future design revision
• Travel occasionally to support supplier and manufacturer visit, product deployment, and field validation

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
• Minimum 5 years of hardware design experience at business including: Electronics circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout, packaging, integration, validation and transitioning a product to production.
• Past success developing electronics for critical systems in fields such as energy, transportation, or medical devices.
• Design experience with mixed-signal PCB, high-speed digital PCB, microprocessor,  ethernet, power electronics, and motor drive.
• Proficiency in schematic capture, PCB layout, and simulation tools (Altium, SPICE, etc.)
• Strong lab skills and familiarity with test equipment like oscilloscope, digital multimeter, power analyzer, LCR meter, function generator, spectrum analyzer, etc
• Design experience with UL safety requirements and EMC requirements preferred
• Design experience with embedded programming in Linux system is a plus
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering disciplines
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S.

ABOUT YOU AND THE ROLE  

The Avionics team is a group of hardware, software, and test experts responsible for designing robust systems that control our life-saving drone delivery service in some of the toughest environments on Earth. Our team designs aircraft avionics that must excel in a wide range of harsh, real-world climates and electromagnetic interference (EMI) environments. The Avionics system is a vital part of the overall zipline aircraft system architecture, where we strive to achieve high performance and reliability while minimizing mass and cost.

You and our team will be responsible for delivering high performance flight computers, communication, and navigation systems that are tightly integrated into the vehicle. These avionics systems are at the core of a new unmanned aerial system that will enable Zipline’s impact to expand from 100,000 deliveries/year to 100 million across the globe.  Zipline’s future success depends on the development of avionics systems that are low mass, low cost, high reliability, and produced at high volumes. Rigorous design engineering and validation is required, as well as ingenuity in approaches to packaging, integration, fault tolerance, and validation.  We are looking for a test engineer with a strong foundation in electrical engineering fundamentals and prior experience with manufacturing test, design validation, system performance characterization, and certificaiton. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO  

• Own the design validation and test planning efforts for our avionics products; including both design validation and manufacturing test. 
• Develop a deep understanding of components under test becoming a subject matter expert in the component’s behavior under a range of environmental, performance, and system conditions.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and external vendors to deploy high quality test plans and test systems in a timely manner to support production timelines
• Drive end-to-end test campaigns from development through design validation, certification, and production (often working all facets simultaneously).
• Triage and root-cause field failures, using data analysis, test heritage, correlation to operating conditions, and one-off test campaigns.
• Support the certification testing to enable our aircraft to fly in the real world.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING 

• 5+ years of experience in EE test engineering roles, with manufacturing test, system performance testing, certification, and design validation experience
• Bachelors and/or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering
• Past test engineering experience in sensors and electronics for critical systems in fields such as automotive, aerospace, transportation, or medical devices.
• Test asset design validation for products in high-volume production environments.
• Experience developing test plans, test requirements, test standards, and test criteria for hardware products, pcba’s, and sensors
• Proficient in Python, Linux environments, and scripting languages such as Bash or Shell.
• Enthusiasm for collaborating in a fast paced, cross-functional environment.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical challenges and solutions to fellow engineers and non-engineers alike.
• Must be eligible to work in the US.
• Must be able to work in-person at Zipline’s South San Francisco office.

WHAT ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW   

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies. 

The starting cash range for this role is $145,000 - $185,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About You and The Role  

We’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team who has developed, tested, and deployed complex electromechanical systems into safety critical environments. Do you enjoy tackling the most cross-disciplinary parts of a complex program? Do you thrive in  solving business-critical problems with little direction, a high degree of ownership, and the freedom to make it happen? At Zipline our work is intended for the field. Patients are counting on it today--there is no time for coming up short. If being an engineering leader on the team driving us to achieve our ambitious goals to scale operations and production, improve reliability, level-up our customer experience, and efficiently mature our processes to support all of this appeals to you, read on.

Zipline was founded by engineers dedicated to making the world a better place. We are scaling around the world and we need someone to join our team who is excited to help level up Systems Engineering at Zipline. Every day, your commitment and technical leadership will help save lives.

What You'll Do  

• Serve as a trusted technical expert of deploying high-reliability, autonomous systems into safety-critical environments including owning requirements, metrics, test coverage, and validation processes to ensure we ship safe and robust systems 
• Own system and subsystem requirement definition, decomposition, and traceability
• Define interfaces and drive cross disciplinary discussions to align on budgets
• Develop frameworks and facilitate trade studies to optimize for performance, safety, and cost across key system architecture or operations decisions
• Evaluate hardware and software release standards and test requirements
• Partner with design engineering, other systems engineers and certification  team to prove flight worthiness to regulators

Basic Requirements: (Dependent on experience and qualifications, this role can be considered at higher levels)

• BS and/or MS in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field
• 5+ years of real-world experience in safety critical electromechanical systems, for example in autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or industrial automation fields including systems/vehicle design experience
• Ability to solve complex multidisciplinary problems on schedule independently
• The ability to dive in when appropriate to solve problems using tools such as your modeling language/tool of choice, systems modeling, and statistical analysis among others
• Knowledge from designing systems that were resilient to harsh climatic environments, mechanical vibration, ESD, and/or high electrical noise
• Experience with not only fail-safe fault tolerant modes but also fail-operative modes that enable the system to continue to operate through faults

Nice to have:

• A proven track record setting up systems engineering processes in new projects and/or startup environments such as implementing requirements including processes, definition, decomposition, and verification
• Sufficiently comfortable with energy budgets, flight dynamics, and statistical analysis methods to set the appropriate risk-based thresholds for things like energy margins and environmental limitations
• Leadership skills to grow and develop a world class systems engineering team

What Else You Need to Know   

The starting cash range for this role is $160,000 - $260,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

ABOUT ZIPLINE

Do you want to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing, and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes, we are transforming the way things move for businesses, governments, and consumers. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Through our technology which includes robotics and autonomy, we are decarbonizing delivery, decreasing road congestion, and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access to billions of people and building a more resilient global supply chain.

Join Zipline and help us to make good on our promise to build an equitable and more resilient global supply chain for billions of people.

ABOUT YOU AND THE ROLE  

The Avionics team is a group of hardware, software, and test experts responsible for designing robust systems that control our life-saving drone delivery service in some of the toughest environments on Earth. Our team designs aircraft avionics that must excel in a wide range of harsh, real-world climates and electromagnetic interference (EMI) environments. The Avionics system is a vital part of the overall zipline aircraft system architecture, where we strive to achieve high performance and reliability while minimizing mass and cost.

You and our team will be responsible for delivering high performance communication and navigation systems that are tightly integrated into the aircraft and flight computer. These radio systems are at the core of a new unmanned aerial system that will enable Zipline’s impact to expand from 100,000 deliveries/year to 100 million across the globe.  Zipline’s future success depends on the development of avionics systems that are low mass, low cost, high reliability, and produced at high volumes. Rigorous design engineering and validation is required, as well as ingenuity in approaches to packaging, integration, fault tolerance, and validation.  We are looking for a test engineer with a strong foundation in RF fundamentals and prior experience with manufacturing test, design validation, system performance characterization, and certificaiton. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO  

• Own the design validation and test planning efforts for our RF products; including both design validation and manufacturing test. 
• Develop a deep understanding of components under test becoming a subject matter expert in the component’s behavior under a range of environmental, performance, and system conditions.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and external vendors to deploy high quality test plans and test systems in a timely manner to support production timelines
• Drive end-to-end test campaigns from development through design validation, certification, and production (often working all facets simultaneously).
• Triage and root-cause field failures, using data analysis, test heritage, correlation to operating conditions, and one-off test campaigns.
• Support the certification testing to enable our aircraft to fly in the real world.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING 

• 5+ years of experience in RF engineering roles, with manufacturing test, system performance testing, certification, and design validation experience
• Bachelors and/or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, with focus on RF Comms and Design 
• Past test engineering experience in sensors and electronics for critical systems in fields such as automotive, aerospace, transportation, or medical devices.
• Test asset design validation for RF products in high-volume production environments.
• Experience with one or more of Wi-Fi, Cell, GNSS, ADS-B, UWB, Radar, or similar consumer electronics wireless protocols. 
• Experience developing test plans, test requirements, test standards, and test criteria for hardware products and RF systems.
• Strong understanding of communication system fundamentals including linear systems, signal processing, and communication theory.
• Proficient in Python, Linux environments, and scripting languages such as Bash or Shell.
• Enthusiasm for collaborating in a fast paced, cross-functional environment.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical challenges and solutions to fellow engineers and non-engineers alike.
• Must be eligible to work in the US.
• Must be able to work in person at Zipline’s South San Francisco office.

WHAT ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW   

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies. 

The starting cash range for this role is $145,000 - $205,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About You and The Role  

As a Senior Software Engineer - Hardware Test at Zipline you will have the unique opportunity to develop and deploy high quality software that will power our automated testers for our next-generation of P2 hardware. By developing these tests you will gain a deep understanding of our avionics stack, flight and embedded code, and vehicle-sensors. You will own these test systems from early prototype design all the way to field/production root-cause, driving schedules and deliverables, interfacing with vendors and bridging cross-functional teams with a reliability and safety focus. Most importantly, your work will directly contribute to the design of future vehicles and verification of our next-generation aircraft. You are the last line of defense with our production testers before our vehicles are shipped all over the world to perform vital, life-saving deliveries.

What You'll Do  

• Architect, develop, and deploy test software and test assets that will be used to validate components from avionics boards, sensors, instrumentation, and mechanism assemblies. 
• Develop automation-centric software scripts to streamline design and production testing.
• Develop a deep understanding of components under test becoming a subject matter expert in the component’s behavior under a range of environmental, performance, and system conditions.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and external vendors to deploy high quality test systems in a timely manner to support vehicle-builds.
• Drive end-to-end test campaigns from development through design validation, certification, and production automation (often working all facets simultaneously).
• Triage and root-cause field failures, using data analysis, test heritage, correlation to operating conditions, and one-off test campaigns.
• Develop automation software scripts and visualization tools to streamline design and production testing.

What You'll Bring 

• 5+ years of programming experience in Python for high volume production applications (manufacturing/EOL software development experience). Some knowledge of embedded C and ability to understand Rust is desired.
• Experience with object oriented programming.
• Experience building automation systems for use in safety-critical and factory applications.
• Experience working with Git / CI and the software development and validation process.
• Experience developing software that interfaces directly with hardware including navigating datasheets and validating hands-on with representative hardware.
• Experience developing test plans, test requirements, and test criteria for hardware products.
• Experience using and deep understanding of common test instrumentation and data acquisition hardware.
• Experience solving complex multidisciplinary problems with little supervision on schedule as an individual or as a member of an integrated team.
• Must be authorized to work in the US. 

What Else You Need to Know   

The starting cash range for this role is $160,000 - $220,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

Your Impact

We are developing the next generation of mission-critical communications systems to builds mission-critical devices used by public-safety professionals worldwide. As a Staff Wireless Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader driving architecture and implementation of wireless protocol stacks, transport abstraction layers, and real-time communication systems across our devices. You will operate at the intersection of RF, embedded systems, and cloud-connected software.

This is a hands-on technical role with broad architectural influence.

Work Location: This role is eligible to be based out of Axon's US hubs in Atlanta, Boston, Scottsdale (HQ), San Francisco, or Seattle, and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite 4 days per week, Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.

Reports to: VP of Software Engineering
Direct Reports: 0

What You'll Do:

You will be tasked with solving the toughest wireless problems our products face: translating research into resilient, high-performance PHY/MAC systems; architecting firmware and toolchains that meet extreme latency, power, and reliability targets; and defining the wireless roadmap that balances innovation, manufacturability, and real-world performance. You will shape how our devices connect and perform at scale — from lab prototypes to deployed fleets — and your work will be judged by field performance under real conditions, not just simulations. This mission-critical wireless systems require both RF understanding and deep systems software expertise. This position sits at that boundary and defines the reliability and trust of the entire communications platform..

• Lead design and implementation of wireless communication stacks (LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi, sidelink, mesh, P2P, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC....)
• Architect low-latency, high-reliability PTT and real-time voice transport systems
• Develop transport abstraction layers across multiple radios and networks
• Optimize performance (latency, jitter, packet loss, handover behavior)
• Collaborate with RF, hardware, and firmware teams to ensure end-to-end system performance
• Drive modem integration (e.g., Qualcomm, MediaTek) and carrier certification efforts
• Implement QoS, prioritization, and congestion control mechanisms
• Contribute to secure communication layers (encryption, key management, secure boot integration)
• Define metrics and instrumentation for wireless performance at scale
• Mentor engineers and set technical direction across projects

What You Bring

• 10+ years experience in wireless software development
• Strong C/C++ experience in embedded or systems environments
• Deep understanding of wireless protocols (LTE, 5G NR, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, sidelink, or mesh)
• Experience working with modem vendors (e.g., Qualcomm SDKs)
• Experience with real-time systems and low-latency audio transport
• Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, UDP, RTP, QUIC, QoS)
• Familiarity with RF performance constraints (RSSI, SINR, handovers, link budgets)
• Experience debugging packet-level and radio-layer issues

Additional preferable skills:

• Experience with mission-critical communications (LMR, MCPTT, public safety)
• Experience with 3GPP standards (Rel 16+)
• Experience with 5G sidelink (PC5) or device-to-device protocols
• Experience implementing mesh or MANET routing
• Knowledge of secure communications (AES, TLS, PKI, FIPS environments)
• Familiarity with Android/Linux device platforms
• Experience with satellite backhaul or hybrid transport systems

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Learning & Development programs
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.

We are looking for a Hardware Reliability Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for planning and executing hardware reliability tasks for Oura’s wearable products, working closely with cross-functional partners to ensure our devices meet high standards for durability, robustness, and quality throughout the product lifecycle.

What you will do:

• Plan document and also execute  reliability testing for Oura hardware products and accessories under established reliability frameworks.
• Setup, coordinate and review reliability testing activities with contract manufacturers and external test labs 
• Develop, document, and improve reliability test methods to address evolving wearable technologies and design challenges.
• Support failure analysis and root cause investigations, working with design, Quality, and manufacturing teams to drive corrective actions
• Create and maintain detailed test plans, reports, and documentation to ensure traceability, repeatability, and data integrity.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, test engineering, and manufacturing teams to ensure reliability considerations are integrated throughout product development
• Analyze test data, field data, summarize results, and clearly communicate insights to support data-driven design decisions and continuous improvement.

This is an onsite US based role for our San Diego or San Francisco offices.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of experience in hardware reliability, validation, or test engineering within consumer electronics, wearables, or small electromechanical systems.
• Demonstrated ability to design and execute reliability tests, including defining stress conditions, aging, metrics, and acceptance criteria — not just running predefined tests.
• Hands-on experience with mechanical, environmental, and electrical reliability programs
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience in failure analysis and data-driven decision-making.
• Ability to interpret test data and communicate results clearly to cross-functional stakeholders
• Familiarity with industry reliability standards and methodologies
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and collaborative working style.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
  
  

Preferred

• Experience with wearable or portable consumer devices, especially compact form factors with integrated electronics.
• Experience working with  contract manufacturers.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, Reliability Engineering, or a related discipline.
  
  

Work Model

• On-site role in San Diego, CA or San Francisco, CA
• Close collaboration with Oura’s global hardware, firmware, Rel testing,  manufacturing, and quality teams
• Occasional travel to supplier locations or Finland required

Benefits

At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health and add to our benefits!

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
• 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• Paid sick leave and parental leave
• Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers

Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• $151,300 - $178,000 (Region 1)
• $138,550 - $163,000 (Region 2)

About the Role:

Planet’s Electrical Engineering team is looking for a Mechanical Engineer, Harness Design to support the end-to-end design and delivery of our satellite's critical wire harnesses. You will contribute to the entire process, from creating 3D routing models and 2D fabrication drawings, to supporting component selection to meet strict performance and environmental requirements for the vacuum and vibration of space. This is a hands-on, collaborative role where you will work with engineering and manufacturing teams to ensure your designs are successfully built, integrated, and ready for launch.

This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our San Francisco office 3 days per week. 

Impact You'll Own:

• Design and deliver robust wire harness solutions from concept to production, creating 3D routing models and 2D fabrication drawings.
• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and systems engineers to develop system integration plans, ensure electrical integrity, and streamline the transition from design to manufacturing.
• Support the component selection process for connectors, terminals, wire, and protection (sleeving, conduit) to meet all system performance, environmental, and cost requirements.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance all critical design documentation, including electrical schematics, Bills of Materials (BOMs), and engineering change orders (ECOs) to ensure product accuracy.
• Support manufacturing and integration teams by troubleshooting build challenges, resolving design issues, and ensuring all assemblies meet quality and compliance standards.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a similar technical field.
• 2+ years of experience in developing electrical wire harnesses, routing in complex assemblies, and creating 2D/3D CAD documentation.
• Proficiency in CAD software for harness design and routing (e.g. SolidWorks Electrical, CATIA, Capital Harness, etc).
• Proficiency in reading and creating electrical schematics and wiring diagrams.
• Solid understanding of version control for design files and managing documentation releases to production.
• Familiarity with IPC/NASA/etc harness design standards.

What Makes You Stand Out: 

• Knowledge of industry standards for cable and harness assembly.
• Hands-on experience with harness fabrication, including crimping, soldering, and building prototypes.
• Familiarity with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.

Application Deadline: 

June 19, 2026 by 11:59pm PT

EAR/ITAR Requirements:

This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Internships at Planet:

Planet’s Summer 2026 internships are full-time, paid 12-week positions located in our San Francisco HQ Office. 

Program Dates:

• June 1 - August 21
• June 22 - September 11

About the Role:

The Mission Optimization team supports all Planet’s missions, working to maximize the productivity of the world's largest Earth Observation satellite constellation. Our team spans North America and Europe. Given the scale of our fleet, automation is at the heart of our operations. You'll develop and maintain critical software that is used to manage and operate our fleet, transforming large datasets into actionable metrics.

As a Mission Optimization Engineer Intern, the main scope of your project will be fleet-wide productivity optimization. You will help identify possible inefficiencies in the automated services we use to operate our satellites, and design and implement solutions to improve the overall productivity of the fleet. We are looking for a data-driven, self-starter engineer with effective communication skills that collaborates well within a technical team and adapts quickly to changing tasks and contexts. You will also work closely with hardware and software experts across teams to provide operational insights that shape our next-generation satellites.

This is a full-time, in-office position based in our San Francisco office  5 days per week.

Impact You'll Own:

• Develop and maintain real-time, mission-critical software solutions for satellite operations
• Write scripts to aggregate satellite data and generate system monitoring metrics
• Analyze data to identify issues and inefficiencies in the full stack of services and propose solutions to improve productivity
• Identify and drive improvements to fleet capacity and productivity through process enhancements

What You Bring:

• Currently enrolled in a BSc in engineering or computer science
• Proficiency in software development, particularly in Python or equivalent languages
• Data-driven mindset with experience in statistical analysis
• Proactive, self-starter approach to engineering and problem-solving
• Effective interpersonal and collaboration skills within a technical team

What Makes You Stand Out: 

• Experience with agile software development
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices (e.g., Git, GitLab, Docker, Jenkins, Bash, Linux, CI/CD, Sentry, Datadog)
• Familiarity with satellite engineering and/or the space environment and its challenges
• Hands-on experience operating spacecraft or remote systems
• Familiarity with automation and optimization frameworks
• Contributions to open-source software projects

Application Deadline:

April 13, 2026 at 11:59p PT

EAR/ITAR Requirements:

This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Commuter Benefits
• Paid time off for holidays and company-wide days off
• Internet reimbursement
• Access to LinkedIn Learning

Compensation:

The US hourly rate range for this position at the commencement of employment is $35 - $60. The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

About Us:

Samara Aerospace is revolutionizing satellite design by addressing the challenges of deploying and managing large satellite constellations. Our innovative Hummingbird spacecraft bus offers a modular and scalable platform that streamlines satellite production and deployment, significantly reducing launch costs. Hummingbird's compact architecture maximizes launch capacity, making it the most efficient and agile spacecraft in the industry. At the core of our technology is the patented Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control (MSAC) system. Unlike traditional wheel-based pointing control systems, MSAC utilizes actuators embedded in the hinges of deployable solar panels to provide 3-axis attitude control and active jitter cancellation. This design eliminates the need for spinning wheels, reducing mass and potential points of failure, while enhancing pointing precision.

Role:

The Electrical Engineering team at Samara is seeking an Electrical Engineer to lead the design, layout, and testing of printed circuit boards for spacecraft electronics at our headquarters in San Francisco. This is a startup environment where you will own designs end-to-end, from early concept through production. A strong problem-solving background, hands-on testing skills, and experience with high-density PCB design and electronics integration. You'll work closely with experienced electrical, mechanical, and embedded software engineers to ensure the Hummingbird satellite's electronics are robust, manufacturable, and ready for the space environment.

Responsibilities:

• Own PCB Design from circuit design, schematic capture, and PCB layout through bring up testing.
• Conduct trade studies that balance electrical performance, signal integrity, thermal management, manufacturability, cost, and schedule.
• Collaborate with embedded software engineers during board bring-up, debugging, and hardware-software integration.
• Support spacecraft and board-level integration, including hands-on assistance with electronics assembly, rework, and system testing.
• Plan, support, and analyze board-level environmental testing including radiation, vibration, and thermal vacuum (TVAC) campaigns.
• Contribute to documentation, design reviews, and test reports.

Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 1–3 years of professional experience with PCB design and layout using Altium Designer.
• Familiarity with PCB manufacturing processes, design-for-manufacturing (DFM) principles, and assembly techniques.
• Strong interest in hands-on hardware development and working in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate across disciplines.

Preferred:

• Experience with high-speed digital design, impedance-controlled routing, or mixed-signal layout techniques.
• Experience with RF circuit design, radio and communication subsystems, or antenna design and integration.
• Experience with environmental testing or qualifying hardware for harsh operating conditions.
• Spacecraft, aerospace, or high-reliability hardware experience.

Salary and Benefits:

• Pay range: $140,000-160,000 annually to start 
• Early and competitive equity in a rapidly growing startup 
• Platinum-level healthcare, vision, dental, and life insurance covered 100% for you 
• Partial dependent coverage available 
• 401k matching at 4% (no vesting) 
• Unlimited PTO and sick time 
• 17 paid holidays (including a “winter break” Dec. 24-Jan. 1) 
• Relocation assistance is available 

Work Authorization
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. 
Samara Aerospace does not currently sponsor employment visas for this position.
Employment eligibility will be verified upon hire in accordance with federal law.

About the Role: 

The AI Engineer will help define, architect, and implement / project manage how artificial intelligence is applied across Planet's marketing organization to improve efficiency, scalability, and performance. This role will identify opportunities to integrate AI into marketing workflows, campaign development, and marketing operations, while helping build the technical infrastructure in tandem with the corporate engineering team that powers pipeline generation and customer acquisition.

This person will work cross-functionally with Growth Marketing, Marketing Operations, Revenue Operations, Product Marketing, Corporate Engineering, and Data teams to introduce AI-driven systems and automated agents that improve campaign velocity, marketing insights, and pipeline impact. The ideal candidate is a builder at heart who combines marketing and revenue operations knowledge with a technical mindset to help translate emerging AI capabilities and business needs into scalable GTM systems.

Impact You'll Own:

• Identify gaps, create strategy for, and implement AI across marketing workflows including campaign execution, content production, analytics, and marketing operations. From concept, through execution. 
• Architect and build an AI-first GTM engine that identifies, engages, and converts high-value customer segments through automated lead research and qualification systems.
• Use AI to spearhead complex data analytics and build GTM data optimization layers to report on funnel performance and revenue attribution.
• Partner with Growth and regional marketing teams to apply AI to campaign planning, structured messaging experimentation loops, and audience targeting.
• Collaborate with Marketing Operations, RevOps, and Corporate Engineering to integrate new AI tools and automated outreach sequences into existing CRM and marketing automation platforms.
• Work with Corporate engineering to evaluate emerging AI technologies and vendors, selecting tools that build a robust GTM technology stack.
• Develop internal playbooks and frameworks for how marketing teams should use AI tools in their daily work.
• Support AI-driven experimentation including creative testing, automated messaging variations, and landing page drafts.
• Help train marketing teams on AI capabilities, best practices, and responsible use of AI technologies.
• Lead, monitor, and report on the impact of AI initiatives across campaign velocity, marketing efficiency, and pipeline generation.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure AI initiatives align with Planet's mission to make global change visible, accessible, and actionable.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data analytics, or automation engineer with at least 1 year building production-grade AI systems.
• Hands-on experience working with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source), including prompt design, evaluation, and iteration
• Experience building agentic workflows that take actions (not just generate text), including tool use, chaining, and structured outputs
• Demonstrated ability to design and build complex operational systems from scratch that support marketing, sales, or revenue teams.
• Experience working in marketing technology platforms such as CRM systems (Salesforce), marketing automation tools (Marketo), and data enrichment platforms.
• Experience implementing artificial intelligence tools including generative AI, workflow orchestration tools, and AI-powered analytics platforms.
• Experience improving marketing workflows through automation, process design, or technical system implementation.
• Ability to translate technical capabilities into practical marketing applications and automated engagement sequences that support business goals.
• Experience working cross-functionally with marketing, operations, product, corporate engineering, and data teams.
• Strong analytical thinking and the ability to interpret market data and customer signals to evaluate the impact of marketing initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to help teams adopt new tools and processes.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where systems and processes are being built for the first time.

What Makes You Stand Out: 

• Experience applying AI to marketing functions such as campaign development, content production, experimentation, or personalization, reporting, analytics, and personalization. 
• You’ve built AI systems that directly impacted revenue, growth, or operations (not just demos or prototypes)
• Familiarity with marketing AI tools such as generative content platforms, AI analytics tools, or AI-native GTM enhancements.
• Experience building internal frameworks or playbooks for new technology adoption.
• Experience working in high-growth technology companies or data-driven marketing environments.
• Strong technical curiosity regarding how automation and AI can reshape traditional revenue workflows.

Application Deadline: July 14, 2026

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

About the Role: 

The AI Engineer will help define, architect, and implement / project manage how artificial intelligence is applied across Planet's marketing organization to improve efficiency, scalability, and performance. This role will identify opportunities to integrate AI into marketing workflows, campaign development, and marketing operations, while helping build the technical infrastructure in tandem with the corporate engineering team that powers pipeline generation and customer acquisition.

This person will work cross-functionally with Growth Marketing, Marketing Operations, Revenue Operations, Product Marketing, Corporate Engineering, and Data teams to introduce AI-driven systems and automated agents that improve campaign velocity, marketing insights, and pipeline impact. The ideal candidate is a builder at heart who combines marketing and revenue operations knowledge with a technical mindset to help translate emerging AI capabilities and business needs into scalable GTM systems.

Impact You'll Own:

• Identify gaps, create strategy for, and implement AI across marketing workflows including campaign execution, content production, analytics, and marketing operations. From concept, through execution. 
• Architect and build an AI-first GTM engine that identifies, engages, and converts high-value customer segments through automated lead research and qualification systems.
• Use AI to spearhead complex data analytics and build GTM data optimization layers to report on funnel performance and revenue attribution.
• Partner with Growth and regional marketing teams to apply AI to campaign planning, structured messaging experimentation loops, and audience targeting.
• Collaborate with Marketing Operations, RevOps, and Corporate Engineering to integrate new AI tools and automated outreach sequences into existing CRM and marketing automation platforms.
• Work with Corporate engineering to evaluate emerging AI technologies and vendors, selecting tools that build a robust GTM technology stack.
• Develop internal playbooks and frameworks for how marketing teams should use AI tools in their daily work.
• Support AI-driven experimentation including creative testing, automated messaging variations, and landing page drafts.
• Help train marketing teams on AI capabilities, best practices, and responsible use of AI technologies.
• Lead, monitor, and report on the impact of AI initiatives across campaign velocity, marketing efficiency, and pipeline generation.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure AI initiatives align with Planet's mission to make global change visible, accessible, and actionable.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data analytics, or automation engineer with at least 1 year building production-grade AI systems.
• Hands-on experience working with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source), including prompt design, evaluation, and iteration
• Experience building agentic workflows that take actions (not just generate text), including tool use, chaining, and structured outputs
• Demonstrated ability to design and build complex operational systems from scratch that support marketing, sales, or revenue teams.
• Experience working in marketing technology platforms such as CRM systems (Salesforce), marketing automation tools (Marketo), and data enrichment platforms.
• Experience implementing artificial intelligence tools including generative AI, workflow orchestration tools, and AI-powered analytics platforms.
• Experience improving marketing workflows through automation, process design, or technical system implementation.
• Ability to translate technical capabilities into practical marketing applications and automated engagement sequences that support business goals.
• Experience working cross-functionally with marketing, operations, product, corporate engineering, and data teams.
• Strong analytical thinking and the ability to interpret market data and customer signals to evaluate the impact of marketing initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to help teams adopt new tools and processes.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where systems and processes are being built for the first time.

What Makes You Stand Out: 

• Experience applying AI to marketing functions such as campaign development, content production, experimentation, or personalization, reporting, analytics, and personalization. 
• You’ve built AI systems that directly impacted revenue, growth, or operations (not just demos or prototypes)
• Familiarity with marketing AI tools such as generative content platforms, AI analytics tools, or AI-native GTM enhancements.
• Experience building internal frameworks or playbooks for new technology adoption.
• Experience working in high-growth technology companies or data-driven marketing environments.
• Strong technical curiosity regarding how automation and AI can reshape traditional revenue workflows.

Application Deadline: July 14, 2026

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

About the Role:

Planet’s Flight Software Team is responsible for all of the embedded software that powers our diverse fleet of Superdove, Skysat, Pelican, and Tanager satellites. The software we build and maintain deploys to orbiting spacecraft hundreds of kilometers away and spans many functional verticals, including navigation and avionics, payload control, radio software, onboard autonomy, and supporting tooling and infrastructure. We collaborate closely with many other teams at Planet, including the Payload, EE, RF, Ground Software, and Missions teams, to deliver reliable and innovative solutions that ensure the success of Planet’s missions.

As a Flight Software Engineer at Planet, you will play a key role in the definition, development, maintenance, and optimization of this critical software. Our mission is to create seamless, intuitive systems that enable spacecraft operators, analysts, and engineers at Planet to interact reliably with our assets in space. We strive to minimize operational burden and automate all aspects of satellite operations. In this role, you will solve a wide range of complex engineering challenges in a dynamic environment.

You will design and implement new APIs, refine existing ones, and evaluate and select appropriate software technologies for given use cases. You will own and conduct root cause analyses which may cross software components as well as hardware domains; at times the target you’re debugging will be hundreds of kilometers away with limited bandwidth and periodic windows for communication. You will help design and deploy critical infrastructure, ensuring it meets operational demands and scales effectively to support Planet’s evolving missions. Finally, you will collaborate with operators and other key stakeholders to iteratively refine these systems, ensuring they meet today’s needs while advancing Planet’s broader mission to deliver insights that change how we see the world.

This is a full time, hybrid role which will require you to be in our San Francisco office 3 days per week.

Impact You'll Own:

• Independently own root cause investigations for complex bugs and implement robust fixes across our embedded targets, including bare-metal, RTOS, and Linux-based application code.
• Design, implement, and test new features and software components for new and existing satellite platforms with minimal guidance from technical leads. 
• Analyze system performance and propose/implement software improvements to enhance fleet robustness, efficiency, and capability.
• Work with stakeholders and other engineers to define specifications, develop clear component APIs, and produce comprehensive tests and documentation for the software you own.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience, with solid proficiency in C or C++ for embedded systems (RTOS or bare-metal).
• Experience with Python for scripting, testing, and data analysis.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders such as engineers, satellite operators, and engineering project managers.
• Professional experience working under agile development using the Git version control system.
• Familiarity with common hardware communication protocols such as UART, SPI, or I2C.

What Makes You Stand Out: 

• Experience in multiple programming languages and operating systems.
• Linux/Unix systems programming experience such as memory-mapped files, network protocol development, process memory management, etc.
• Direct experience with RTOS and bare metal development on ARM microcontrollers (e.g., STM32).
• Experience writing software for FPGA softcores, RISC-V or otherwise.
• Experience developing or deploying applications for edge computing, such as onboard data processing or machine learning inference.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker/lxc.

Application Deadline:

May 15, 2026 at 11:59p PT

EAR/ITAR Requirements:

This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Impact You’ll Own:

• Interface mission specifications between our customer and Planet’s teams
• Assess system level budgets for engineering trades and feasibility studies
• Collaborate with our mission operations as well as data product teams to ensure that the satellite system meets the needs of our customer
• Participate in the assembly, integration and testing (AI&T) of satellite systems for test planning and anomaly resolution 
• Provide verification and validation of the satellite system and ground systems, including environmental, functional, and end-to-end testing
• Lead the technical coordination of multiple teams, including Mechanical, Thermal, ADSCS/GNC, Propulsion, Electrical, and Manufacturing engineering teams 

What You Bring:

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• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or similar
• 5+ years of experience in the design and development of satellite systems
• Customer facing experience in briefings and design reviews
• Understanding of one or multiple satellite subsystems, including Mechanical, Thermal, ADSCS/GNC, Propulsion, or Electrical
• Familiarity with requirements formulation, validation, and verification best practices
• Experience with vehicle testing, including both functional and environmental testing

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or similar.
• 7+ years of experience working in the satellite industry, including design/analysis, AI&T and/or V&V.
• Familiar with industry standards including NASA GEVS and SMC-S-16 for small satellites (50-200 kg)
• Remote Sensing experience related to electro-optical payloads
• Knowledge of design for space environment best practice
• Experience with constellation design or orbital simulations in custom tool suites or STK
• Excellent understanding of ground segment architecture including mission control and mission processing elements

Application Deadline:

July 7, 2026 by 11:59p / 23:59 CET (Central European Time)

EAR/ITAR Requirements:

This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

ESA seeks a highly motivated Junior Coastal Engineer with 0-3 years' experience to join our team of hydrologists, geomorphologists, ecologists, landscape architects and engineers in the Northern California region. This position will support a variety of multi-objective tidal wetland and coastal restoration design projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta, California Coast, and throughout California. We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic team member with a passion for ecosystem restoration and the desire to learn and grow.  This is a full-time salary exempt role with hybrid work expectations.  Candidates must be able to work in office hybrid in one of the following office locations: San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, or Petaluma and be available as needed to travel to other ESA office locations for in-person team collaboration. 

Who You Are 

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering or a related degree and directly relevant qualifications, and EIT certification or the ability to obtain it within one year;
• You have education, training, and/or work experience in one or more of the following: coastal zone or estuarine habitat restoration, land management, geomorphology and/or ecology; coastal engineering; estuarine hydraulics and hydrology.
• Experience in design and modeling software (AutoCAD Civil 3D, ArcGIS, HEC RAS, HEC HMS, XBeach, SWAN etc.) and programming (MATLAB, Python) are desirable but not required.
• You are an effective team member with excellent oral and writing skills who can work independently and collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• You can communicate basic technical information clearly and concisely to individuals and small groups.
• You are adept at using various communication tools to effectively combine in-person and remote teamwork.
• You are able to work hybrid in office in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, or Petaluma.  

What You Will Do for ESA

• Support design and analysis for ecosystem restoration, climate change resilience, habitat enhancement, engineering with nature, flood management, and other water resources and civil engineering projects under direct supervision of a more senior engineer or hydrologist.  
• Assist in the preparation of engineering analyses, design plans and cost estimates, reports, permit applications, and other project documentation. Apply hydrologic and hydraulic models, GIS, and other tools to evaluate design alternatives. Using GIS or other software platforms to evaluate habitat conversion in both the near and long-term accounting for climate change. Have the opportunity to collect hydrographic, topographic, and related field data to support engineering analysis and design.  
• Consistently demonstrate your solid writing and attentive listening skills, contributing to complex environmental reports, and participating in meetings with ESA staff and with our clients. This position will lead to project management experience over time. 
• Thrive in a fast-paced, challenging environment and be able to balance multiple responsibilities and deadlines, while working on a team or independently. Provided the appropriate direction, resources and support, you will independently solve simple to complex problems. 
• Please note, as a part of the interview process, you may be asked to prepare a presentation and/or provide a writing sample.

What’s Special About Our Team

Our EH&D team includes engineers, engineers, hydrologists, geomorphologists and landscape architects. Much of our work is oriented toward the restoration of habitat and ecosystem function, often as part of multi-benefit projects. As a highly-integrated team, we value creative thinking, teamwork, and multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary engagement and integration. 

To read about some of our exciting projects, check out these links Dutch Slough, Lower Walnut Creek, Heron's Head Park Shoreline Resilience, Tomales Bay Living Shoreline, and Surfers' Point. 

What’s Special About ESA

Joining ESA means becoming part of a close-knit team of environmental professionals who contribute to outstanding projects, improve environmental stewardship, and advance a more sustainable and resilient future for our communities and wild places.

At ESA, we provide benefits such as medical, dental, and vision insurance (paid at 70% for you AND your family), annual allocations of company share through our ESOP, a 401(k) plan with company match, and paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays, to name a few.

We also provide specific programs whether you want to further your technical expertise, sharpen your business acumen, or help lead the next generation of employee-owners. We want to support you in reaching your career goals through tuition reimbursement, professional development bonuses, and attendance at conferences.

Your Impact 

Are you eager to contribute to building AI products impacting the world for the greater good?

As an ML Engineer at Axon, you will contribute to developing AI solutions transforming the public safety space and supporting our company’s mission: accelerate justice, protect truth, and save lives. Working closely with other ML engineers and scientists, you will enable new AI capabilities for Axon’s products (Fleet, Draft One, Axon Air, VR and more) by supporting the training, evaluation, testing and deployment of machine learning models on Axon devices and cloud.

As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will be exposed to a wide range of AI domains and applications: from computer vision to speech recognition and natural language understanding.

What You’ll Do

Location: Hybrid from our office in San Francisco, CA. 
Reports to: Manager, Machine Learning Engineering

• Collaborate with scientists and product managers to build proof-of-concepts (POCs) contributing to shaping the Axon of tomorrow.
• Architect and develop secure, privacy-preserving, solutions to enable the continuous improvement of existing AI models.
• Architect platforms that accelerate research and AI product development.
• Collaborate with scientists in architecting and implementing state-of-the-art training techniques.
• Set high standards for ethical and responsible AI development.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Electronics, Mathematics or an equivalent highly technical field.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience and a proven track record of successfully deploying AI models to the cloud.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-code and cloud architecture.
• Proficiency in Python and C++, familiarity with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
• Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with Linux.
• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to dive deep into system architecture.
• Excellent software design skills.
• Comfort communicating and interacting with scientists, engineers and product managers.

What You Bring

• Master’s Degree/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Electronics, Mathematics or an equivalent highly technical field.
• Experience with LLMOps - evaluation, monitoring, quantization, teacher-learner, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with fine-tuning large parameter models.
• Familiarity with model encryption and privacy preserving AI techniques.

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Learning & Development programs
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work

Location: This role is based out of our San Francisco, CA office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.

#LI-Hybrid

About the Role:

Planet designs, builds, and launches the largest fleet of Earth-imaging satellites in history — and the Space Systems organization is where that hardware comes to life. From satellite manufacturing and integration to RF engineering, thermal design, power systems, and deployable structures, this team is responsible for the physical infrastructure that makes global daily imaging possible. As we scale production for our next-generation constellations and stand up a second manufacturing hub in Berlin, the hiring demand across Space Systems is the largest and most technically complex in the company.

As a Talent Acquisition Partner embedded in the Space Systems pod, you will own full-cycle recruiting for roles spanning hardware engineering, manufacturing operations, satellite integration and test, and specialized technical disciplines. You will develop deep domain expertise in the talent markets that matter most — learning the difference between an RF systems engineer and an optical designer, understanding why FPGA firmware experience matters for satellite avionics, and knowing which companies and programs produce the candidates our hiring managers need.

This is a pod-based role, meaning your alignment to Space Systems is persistent — not rotational. You will build lasting relationships with hiring managers across the organization, develop a point of view on their teams and talent needs, and become a trusted partner who can anticipate demand rather than just react to it. You will work alongside a senior Talent Acquisition Partner who brings deep institutional knowledge of Space Systems hiring.

This role is based in San Francisco, where Planet's headquarters and primary satellite manufacturing facility are located. Proximity to the Space Systems team, the manufacturing floor, and the engineering labs matters — it allows you to build credibility with hiring managers, attend design reviews and team events, and develop the contextual understanding that separates a great technical recruiter from a generalist filling reqs.

You will report to the Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition and partner closely with your pod teammate, and Talent Operations to deliver against quarterly hiring targets while maintaining a high-quality candidate experience.

This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our San Francisco office 3 days per week.

Impact You’ll Own:

• Own full-cycle recruiting for Space Systems roles — from intake and sourcing strategy through offer negotiation and close — across hardware engineering, manufacturing, satellite integration and test, and specialized technical disciplines.
• Manage a requisition load of 10–15 active searches at a time, spanning a wide range of engineering specialties including mechanical, electrical, RF, thermal, power, FPGA, and manufacturing operations.
• Build deep, trusted partnerships with Space Systems hiring managers — learning their team structures, technical requirements, and growth plans so you can anticipate hiring needs and proactively build pipeline before requisitions open.
• Develop domain expertise in aerospace and hardware engineering talent markets — understanding where top candidates come from, what motivates them, and how Planet's mission and technical challenges differentiate us from competitors.
• Collaborate with your pod teammate to balance workload across the Space Systems portfolio, share market intelligence, and ensure coverage continuity during peak hiring periods or planned absences.
• Maintain accurate pipeline data in Greenhouse, run structured pipeline reviews, and use data to identify bottlenecks, adjust sourcing strategies, and forecast delivery against quarterly targets.
• Champion candidate experience throughout the process — ensuring timely communication, well-prepared interview panels, and a close process that reflects the quality of the organization candidates are joining.
• Contribute to the broader TA team's evolution by sharing best practices from technical recruiting, participating in process improvement initiatives, and helping refine interview frameworks for engineering roles.

What You Bring:

• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with meaningful time spent hiring for hardware engineering, manufacturing, or other technical disciplines in aerospace, defense, automotive, or adjacent industries.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
• Ability to source and close passive candidates in competitive technical markets where talent pools are limited and candidates have multiple offers.
• Experience managing a high-volume requisition load (10+ concurrent searches) while maintaining quality pipeline activity and consistent hiring manager communication.
• Solid technical fluency — you don't need to be an engineer, but you need to credibly discuss the difference between analog and digital circuit design, understand what a thermal vacuum test is, and learn new technical domains quickly.
• Experience partnering with sourcers or coordinating with external agencies to build pipelines for hard-to-fill roles, with a clear point of view on when to self-source versus leverage support.
• Proficiency with Greenhouse or a comparable ATS, including pipeline management, reporting, and structured interview workflows.
• Excellent judgment on candidate assessment — you can calibrate quickly with a hiring manager, push back constructively on unrealistic requirements, and advocate for strong candidates who might not check every box.
• Solid organizational skills and attention to detail — you manage multiple concurrent processes without letting candidates or hiring managers fall through the cracks.

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Direct experience recruiting for satellite, spacecraft, or launch vehicle programs — you understand the engineering disciplines, the clearance requirements, and the competitive landscape.
• Familiarity with export control and ITAR compliance as it relates to recruiting — understanding how citizenship and clearance requirements shape candidate pools and sourcing strategies.
• Experience recruiting for manufacturing operations roles (technicians, integration specialists, test engineers) in addition to design engineering — comfortable spanning the full spectrum from hourly to senior IC.
• Track record of hiring in the San Francisco Bay Area aerospace and hardware ecosystem, with an existing network in the local talent community.
• Experience working in a pod-based or business unit-aligned recruiting model where you developed deep domain expertise over time rather than rotating across functions.

Application Deadline:

June 25, 2026 by 11:59p / 23:59 CET (Central European Time)

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

About the Role:

Planet’s mission is to image the entire world every day, making global change visible, accessible, and actionable. We are at a critical inflection point: moving from broad AI research to a delivery-focused "productization" model. To drive this, we are building a new product group focused on launching an AI Geospatial Assistant that transforms how our customers interact with global imagery to solve high-stakes problems in forensics and daily change detection.

Our goal is to make these complex insights accessible through an intuitive interface that requires zero user training. Operating with a zero-to-one startup mindset, this team prioritizes weekly learning velocity and customer-driven graduation criteria to move rapidly from private alpha to general availability.

While AI has enabled software engineers to more easily flex into traditional practice areas like front and back end we would like this role to be more focused on front end than not. You will work with a design lead to be an advocate for the user experience. You will solve the critical "Map-Text Disconnect" by making our global imagery an active, interactive participant in the AI conversation. Your work ensures that natural language insights are always anchored by visual evidence, transforming the solutions into a trusted, intuitive, and "wow"-inducing problem-solving tool for experts and novices alike.

This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our San Francisco office 3 days per week.

Impact You'll Own:

• Lead Full Stack AI Web App Development: Take ownership of the user interface and user experience for our new AI-powered chat application, ensuring a highly intuitive, responsive, and visually engaging experience.
• Collaborate with AI Researchers: Work closely with our AI Research Team to understand their models, workflows, outputs, and emerging capabilities translating complex analytical results into clear, actionable, and visually rich information for end-users.
• Implement "Interface Advantages": Develop a side-by-side map and chat layout that lowers the barrier to entry for novices while providing deep analytics for GIS experts.
• Build Trust through Transparency: Integrate visible branding, data badges, and clickable citations to verify that AI-generated answers are grounded in real Planet imagery.
• Develop Dynamic Visualizations: Create exportable "before and after" graphics, charts, and time-series animations that translate AI insights into actionable evidence.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and deploying applications in a cloud environment.
• Optimize Performance: Ensure that "slippy map" transitions and high-resolution satellite imagery loading remain performant and seamless, even when handling complex data overlays under high user demand.
• Engineer Fluid AI Interactions: Architect sophisticated frontend/backend communication patterns (eg. through use of web sockets) to manage high-latency AI operations. You will ensure the UI remains "alive" and transparent by implementing real-time agent status updates, streaming text responses, and progressive data rendering.
• State Management for Multi-modal Conversations.

What You Bring:

• 4+ years of experience as a Full Stack or Frontend Engineer, with expertise in modern frameworks like React or Vue.
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent field.
• Enthusiasm for working in an AI forward development flow. You naturally integrate AI-assisted tools into your workflow to drive your own productivity and enjoy being part of a team that treats AI as a core collaborator in the development lifecycle.
• Proficiency of mapping libraries such as Mapbox GL JS or Leaflet.
• Experience building streaming UI/UX for LLMs and LLM chat interfaces into production-grade web applications.
• Deep empathy for UI/UX principles, focused on democratizing access to complex satellite data for non-technical users.

What Makes You Stand Out: 

• Experience designing dual-mode interfaces (e.g., "Explore" vs. "Analyze") to cater to different user intents.
• Prior experience in geospatial visualization for investigative journalism, government compliance, or environmental monitoring.
• Prior experience working with AI/ML teams or integrating AI models into production applications, especially chat interfaces and agentic workflows
• Solid experience with data visualization tools like D3.js or Plotly.
• Experience with "Human-in-the-loop" (HITL) UI design.

Application Deadline:

June 4, 2026 at 11:59p PT

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

ESA seeks a highly motivated Coastal Engineer with 5+ years of experience in physical coastal processes to join our Environmental Hydrology & Design Team based out of our San Francisco, CA office. The ideal candidate shall serve as a technical specialist, performing quantitative analysis, modeling, and engineering in support of multi-objective planning and design projects, including shore and wetland restoration design, natural resource management, flooding and erosion studies, and sea-level rise adaptation planning. The ideal candidate shall be able to work onsite a few days per week in one of our offices (San Francisco, CA, Sacramento, CA, Los Angeles, CA, and/or Seattle, WA). 

Who You Are 

You are a Coastal Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in physical coastal processes such as wave theory and modeling, coastal flood hazard analysis, and sediment transport analysis and modeling.

You have a degree in Coastal Engineering or a closely related field and a California Professional Engineers license or the ability to obtain one. A master’s or PhD is desirable but not required. An advanced degree with 2-4 years of experience will be considered as well.

You possess basic knowledge of California coastal regulations, policies, processes, and principles. You are an effective team player and have experience delegating work to and providing supervisory support for entry-level staff.  You have strong writing skills and can distill complex engineering and scientific concepts in an understandable way for the public, clients, agency staff, teaming partners and other project stakeholders. You are effective at communicating complex coastal analyses in oral presentations to peer groups and technical advisory groups.

You thrive in a fast-paced consulting environment and can manage multiple responsibilities and deadlines while working on a team or independently.

What You Will Do for ESA

You will work in collaboration with our team of hydrologists, geomorphologists, biologists, engineers and regulatory experts to help manage, restore and enhance natural shores and wetlands throughout Northern California and beyond.

You may serve as a Task Manager on basic or moderately complex projects, developing and tracking scopes of work, schedules, budgets and invoices under a Project Manager’s direction.

You will write clear and concise engineering and scientific reports and papers, communicate concepts in presentations to the public and to technical reviewers and provide mentorship for more junior staff including delegating work, reviewing work for accuracy and providing constructive feedback while working on projects together.

What’s Special About Our Team

ESA's Environmental Hydrology & Design team includes engineers, hydrologists, geomorphologists, and landscape architects. Much of our work is oriented toward the restoration of habitat and ecosystem function, often as part of multi-benefit projects. As a highly integrated team, we value creative thinking, teamwork, and multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary engagement and integration.

What’s Special About ESA

Joining ESA means becoming part of a close-knit team of environmental professionals who contribute to outstanding projects, improve environmental stewardship, and advance a more sustainable and resilient future for our communities and wild places.

At ESA, we provide benefits such as medical, dental, and vision insurance (paid at 70% for you AND your family), annual allocations of company share through our ESOP, a 401(k) plan with company match, and paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays, to name a few.

We also provide specific programs whether you want to further your technical expertise, sharpen your business acumen, or help lead the next generation of employee-owners. We want to support you in reaching your career goals through tuition reimbursement, professional development bonuses, and attendance at conferences.

About the Role:

Planet seeks a Senior Camera Hardware Engineer to serve as the lead electrical architect for our satellite imaging payloads within the Electrical Engineering team. This role encompasses the complete electrical life cycle of our camera systems, including recommending the optimal image sensor, designing ultra-low-noise power rails, and guaranteeing high-speed data integrity from the sensor to the FPGA. The engineer will collaborate closely with Electrical, Mechanical, Thermal and Optical engineers to optimize the entire optical payload (camera and telescope) to meet our mission requirements.

This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our San Francisco office 3 days per week.

Impact You'll Own:

• Design and own the high-speed PCBA architectures for next-generation camera payloads, including sensor headboards and data acquisition systems.
• Collaborate with Payload Systems Engineers to define the electrical specification and selection of CMOS image sensors, focusing on quantum efficiency, full-well capacity, and minimizing temporal/spatial noise.
• Architect low-noise power delivery networks (PDN) and high-speed differential signaling (LVDS/MIPI) to ensure pristine image data capture.
• Partner with Firmware/FPGA teams to optimize the Image Signal Processing pipeline, implementing hardware-level calibration for dark current and defective pixels.
• Drive the electrical requirements for precision sensor alignment, including the design of flexible interconnects and thermal monitoring circuits that maintain focus across orbital temperature swings.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field.
• 10+ years of experience in hardware design, with a significant focus on digital/analog imaging systems and camera hardware.
• Expertise in CMOS sensor operation, including the ability to model and design practical solutions to minimize electronic noise.
• Hands-on experience with high-end oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and optical test equipment (monochromators, integrating spheres).
• Ability to navigate the trade-offs between power consumption, thermal dissipation, and image SNR.

What Makes You Stand Out: 

• Experience with Earth observation payload specifications and remote sensing mission requirements.
• Experience designing electronics for the LEO environment, including knowledge of radiation mitigation and vacuum-compatible design.
• Professional experience with FPGA-based signal processing and high-speed data serialization.
• Deep experience in precision analog design specifically for sensor biasing and high-resolution ADC interfacing.

Application Deadline:

June 4, 2026 at 11:59p PT

EAR/ITAR Requirements:

This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

About the Role:

As a member of the Electrical Engineering team, you will work in a group of dedicated engineers responsible for the design of Planet’s satellites. You will architect and design the power subsystems on our modular satellite bus, and bring-up, validate, and qualify your designs for the space environment. 

This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to be in our San Francisco, HQ 3 days per week.

Impact You'll Own:

• Design and schematic entry of power subsystems including MPPTs, electronic propulsion PPUs, power regulation and distribution for our fleets of nano and small satellites
• Oversight of PCB layout process for your designs, as well as release of drawings for manufacturing
• PCBA bring-up, debugging, and functional verification.
• With assistance of other teams, qualify design for EMI/EMC compliance, thermal performance, and ensure design can survive the high shock and vibration loads of a rocket launch.
• Work with the manufacturing test engineering team to define a highly automated test procedure for each PCBA.
• Anomaly response and troubleshooting systems for on-orbit spacecraft.

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of experience designing PCBs, with 5 years focused on power electronics
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or similar
• Advanced experience designing high voltage (>500V) switching power converters
• Proficiency with high voltage power component selection, in particular with compound semiconductor technologies (SiC, GaN)
• Cross-functional design experience with mechanical/thermal and packaging constraints
• Familiarity with analog design, digital design, mixed-signal design (ADCs/DACs)
• Experience in embedded systems design 
• Knowledge of PCB layout techniques for optimized power and ground routing and EMI mitigation
• Hands-on expertise with EE tools (oscilloscopes, network analyzers, signal generators, etc)
• Experience with simulation tools for power electronics
• Advanced with Altium Designer for schematic capture
• Advanced in Python or other scripting languages to control/automate test equipment (power supplies, solar array simulators, electronic loads)

What Makes You Stand Out: 

• Experience specifying or designing custom magnetics and other passives for power electronics circuits
• Experience with MPPTs and solar arrays
• Experience with electric propulsion systems
• Experience designing for high-reliability aerospace/LEO applications—designing radiation tolerant electronics, vacuum compatible hardware, frequent thermal cycling

Application Deadline: February 3rd, 2026, 11:59pm PST

EAR/ITAR Requirements:

This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

About the Role:

We are currently seeking a Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer to lead system development, verification, and test of Planet’s next-generation satellite platforms, covering multiple domains including earth observation and compute in space. As a spacecraft technical lead,  you will guide an agile engineering team through requirements formulation, design, verification and validation (V&V), as well as integration, assembly and testing (AI&T) phases for new satellite systems. You will also interface with our Product team to ensure that our satellites meet our customer’s needs, with our Manufacturing leads to transition our satellites to mass production, and our Mission Operations leads to ensure the proper on-orbit operation of our future fleets. 

This is a full-time, hybrid position which is required to work in our San Francisco HQ a minimum of 3 days per week.

Impact You'll Own:

• Drive the development and growth of Planet’s next-generation R&D satellites and subsystems
• Lead definition of subsystem interfaces, system level budgets, and multidisciplinary and multi-organizational design trades
• Lead the technical coordination of multiple teams, including Mechanical, Thermal, ADSCS/GNC, Propulsion, Electrical, and Manufacturing engineering teams 
• Develop and execute plans for validation and verification of the satellite system, including both environmental and functional testing
• Participate in the assembly, integration and testing of satellite systems, including troubleshooting and implementation of lessons learned
• Collaborate with our mission operations as well as data product teams to ensure that the satellite system meets the needs of our customers

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or similar
• 6+ years of experience in the design and development of satellite systems
• Understanding of one or multiple satellite subsystems, including Mechanical, Thermal, ADSCS/GNC, Propulsion, or Electrical
• Familiarity with requirements formulation, validation, and verification best practices
• Experience with vehicle testing, including both functional and environmental testing
• Experience collaborating with technical teams
• Excellent communication skills for exchanges with vendors, contractors, and customer
• Excited by working in an agile, dynamic environment, even in times of uncertainty and ambiguity

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or similar
• 7+ years of experience working in the satellite industry, including design/analysis, AI&T and/or V&V
• Familiar with industry standards for small satellites (50-200 kg)
• Remote Sensing experience related to electro-optical payloads
• Knowledge of design for space environment best practice
• Solid understanding of the product development lifecycle process, including analysis and design, development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies and deployment management

Application Deadline:

May 23, 2026 at 11:59p PT

EAR/ITAR Requirements:

This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Role Summary: 

We are seeking a skilled Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our team and contribute to the development of power electronics products. The primary function of this position is to design custom machinery and support the entire project cycle from concept development through installation, commissioning, and handover to the operations team. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product design, Controls, manufacturing, and test engineers, to ensure efficient performance and reliability in high-power density environments.

Responsibilities:

•  Utilize CAD software CAD software (3D EXPERIENCE (3DX), CATIA, NX, SolidWorks, Creo etc.) to create detailed mechanical designs.

• Model and design complex electro-mechanical parts, including plastics, sheet metal, insulators, magnetic components, and high-voltage connectors.

• Perform mechanical design analysis, including structural FEA, thermal CFD, vibration, and fatigue assessments.

• Solve packaging challenges involving electrical isolation, sealing, thermal dissipation, EMI/EMC shielding, and mechanical shock/vibration.

• Define and execute validation test plans including structural, thermal, and environmental testing.

•  2D drawings with GD&T for production and inspection.

• Create engineering documentation, tolerance stacks, BOMs, and release packages through PLM systems.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with electrical, thermal, Firmware and controls, manufacturing, test, and industrial design teams.

• Work closely with suppliers to optimize DFM, DFA, and tooling strategies for high-volume production.

• Lead prototype development, fabrication, assembly, and mechanical testing of new designs.

• Support root-cause analysis of design issues in pilot or production builds and lead iterative improvements.

• Drive trade studies to inform system-level decisions on design architecture, materials, and manufacturing processes.

• Guide selection for structural, thermal, and electrical compatibility in high-voltage environments.

• Contribute to the layout and design of integrated cooling systems including cold plates, thermal interfaces, and airflow paths.

• Develop assembly procedures and manufacturing instructions to support scalable production.

• Participate in mechanical  FMEA and DVP&R activities across product lifecycle stages.

• Work with quality and reliability teams to meet performance, lifecycle, and safety targets.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.

• 3+ years of experience in mechanical design for power electronics, automotive, industrial, or energy products.

• Expertise in CAD modeling using 3D EXPERIENCE (CATIA V6/V5), SolidWorks, NX, or Creo.

• Deep understanding of mechanical fundamentals—statics, dynamics, heat transfer, and materials.

• Proficiency in GD&T, tolerance analysis, and DFM/DFA principles.

• Experience designing enclosures for IP-rated or outdoor-rated power equipment.

• Experience with high-volume manufacturing processes such as injection molding, die casting, extrusion, and sheet metal forming.

• Working knowledge of materials: metals (aluminum, steel), plastics, ceramics, gaskets, potting compounds.

• Hands-on experience taking designs from prototype through production deployment.

• Familiarity with PLM systems (3D EXPERIENCE, Windchill, etc.) and engineering change workflows.

• Comfortable with root-cause analysis, failure mode resolution, and mechanical reliability testing.

• Strong communication skills and ability to lead cross-functional design reviews and technical deep-dives.

• Prior experience collaborating with suppliers on tooling development, DFM feedback, and tolerance negotiations.

• Familiarity with PCBAs, connectors, and mechanical integration of high-density electronic assemblies.

• Experience with design and test documentation for regulatory standards (UL, IEC, NEC preferred).

• Passion for product innovation, sustainability, and enabling electrification through engineering excellence.

• Willingness and ability to travel up to 15% - 20% including internationally

Bonus Qualifications:

• Strong background in structural, thermal, and vibration analysis using tools like Ansys Mechanical, Fluent, and Maxwell.

• Familiarity with electronics packaging and PCB interface considerations.

• Experience with medium- to high-voltage systems and insulation coordination (creepage, clearance, potting, sealing).

• Experience working in Agile development environments, including task management and sprint planning using Scrum methodologies and tools like Jira. 

Please note: This role requires working on-site 5 days a week. We do not offer hybrid or remote options. 

Meet the team:

The Embedded team, works closely with Vehicle Hardware, Autonomy, and Infrastructure engineers to go the last mile in getting software running on the vehicle.  Whether it’s making sure data is flowing from the latest sensor kit, or custom firmware is written and loaded onto main compute - the Embedded Software team gets to play with all the cool new toys, and impact the entire org while working with engineers from almost every team.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, prototype, build, and test production embedded vehicle firmware.
• Evaluate, implement, test, and optimize applications in a real-time operating system environment.
• Working with algorithms teams to take advantage of unique hardware acceleration opportunities.
• Evaluate, design, and implement both existing and custom communication protocols between devices and between compute modules.
• Work with autonomy, hardware engineers, and software throughout the lifecycle of the vehicle - from device bring-up, to software deploy.
• Work with test engineers and platform engineers in developing testing frameworks and harnesses at the unit, integration, and system levels.
• MCU Boot

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Expert level knowledge of C or C++ programming; other languages and skills also valuable.
• Strong knowledge of communication protocols, from low level (SPI, UART, CAN) to high level (TCP/UDP)
• Experience with RTOS environments, especially FreeRTOS/SafeRTOS.
• Experience with time synchronization protocols such as NTP and PTP
• Experience with safety critical systems and processes.
• Bonus points for experience within automotive and/or transit
• Experience deploying firmware to multi device vehicles in a power safe way.
• Familiarity with electronics test equipment and hardware debugging (multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, etc)
• Device Driver experience
• Speed and size optimization for embedded/resource constrained platforms
• Software Development Life Cycle
• New hardware/board or SoC bring up
• Kernel internals/fundamentals
• CAN and DBC knowledge is a plus

*The pay range for this position at commencement of employment in California is expected in the range $200,000-$250,000 USD plus stock options, commensurate with experience*

We are looking for a Health Sensing Hardware Engineer to join our hardware team working on future wearables and accessory devices reporting directly to the Director, Hardware Sensing Technologies.  This opportunity will be hybrid out of our San Francisco or San Diego office.

What you will do: 

• Develop and validate physiological sensing systems for acquiring and analyzing physiological signals in wearable health and wellness products
• Define hardware and software technical specifications and implement test and calibration protocols both internally and at manufacturer sites
• Ensure that the physiological sensors integrated in our products meet their specifications from prototype to mass production
• Build and validate hardware architectures optimized for low-noise, high-resolution time-series signal collection
• Plan and execute benchtop and on-body testing to evaluate system performance across various user populations
• Support validation and compliance efforts in collaboration with regulatory, research, and clinical teams
• Work cross-functionally to ensure end-to-end system performance and signal integrity
• Conduct rigorous testing and troubleshooting to ensure sensor performance across varying environmental and use-case conditions
• Collaborate closely with mechanical and electrical engineers to integrate sensors within constrained form factors and flexible layouts
• Partner with firmware and software teams to enable and refine features built on physiological data
• Work directly with sensor vendors to evaluate new components, optimize performance, and address integration challenges
• Travel occasionally to Finland and to global manufacturing or development sites as required (15%–20%) 

Requirements:

We would love to have you on our team, if you have:

Technical Expertise 

• Strong electrical engineering background and experience with the design and testing of low-noise analog or mixed-signal systems
• Strong understanding of time-series physiological signal acquisition, including best practices for minimizing noise and motion artifacts
• Familiarity with algorithmic methods for time-series signal modeling and calculating physiological metrics
• Simulation and modeling experience using tools like ANSYS, CST, or COMSOL
• Skilled in embedded software and data acquisition tools such as C/C++, Python, or similar
• Experience with data analysis and signal processing tools such as Python, MATLAB, or JMP

Problem Solving and Analytical Thinking

• Strong experimental and analytical skills with a methodical approach to isolating and debugging complex issues across hardware and algorithm domains
• Ability to work independently through ambiguity and rapidly iterate on early-stage concepts
• Driven by data and eager to understand root causes behind performance issues

Communication and Collaboration

• Effective communicator across disciplines, with the ability to clearly convey technical insights both in written and verbal form to technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working in cross-functional teams spanning hardware, firmware, product, and research
• Contributed to project documentation, planning, and alignment with stakeholders

Educational Background

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, physics,or related field with 7+ years of relevant industry experience
• Master’s degree with 5+ years, or PhD with 2+ years of relevant industry experience

Prototyping and Testing

• Hands-on experience building and characterizing early-stage hardware systems
• Proficiency using various lab instrumentation tools such as digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, physiological simulators, power analyzers, and environmental chambers

Bonus Points:

• Experience developing or integrating physiological sensing systems into wearable or health-oriented products
• Track record of supporting high volume products from early prototyping through manufacturing and launch
• Knowledge of regulatory or safety standards for health-related technologies
• Prior work in validation studies or performance benchmarking across diverse populations

Benefits 

At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health and add to our benefits!

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Oura Ring of your own + employee discounts for friends & family
• Fertility benefits through Carrot Pro
• Flexible working hours and remote working arrangements
• $750 Learning & Development credit
• 20 days of PTO + 13 paid holidays + 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• 5 days paid sick leave, 5 days bereavement leave, 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers

Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates’ pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• Region 1 Range (SF): $217,000 - $267,950
• Region 2 Range (SD): $197,000 - $243,800

A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.

To all recruitment agencies: Oura does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Oura employees or any other organization location. Oura is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

About Us:

Samara Aerospace is revolutionizing satellite design by addressing the challenges of deploying and managing large satellite constellations. Our innovative Hummingbird spacecraft bus offers a modular and scalable platform that streamlines satellite production and deployment, significantly reducing launch costs. Hummingbird's compact architecture maximizes launch capacity, making it the most efficient and agile spacecraft in the industry. At the core of our technology is the patented Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control (MSAC) system. Unlike traditional wheel-based pointing control systems, MSAC utilizes actuators embedded in the hinges of deployable solar panels to provide 3-axis attitude control and active jitter cancellation. This design eliminates the need for spinning wheels, reducing mass and potential points of failure, while enhancing pointing precision.

Role:

The Mechanical team at Samara is seeking a mechanical engineer to support the design, analysis, build, and testing of next-generation spacecraft at our headquarters in San Francisco. You’ll work closely with experienced mechanical and electrical engineers, gaining exposure to spacecraft structures, mechanisms, solar arrays, ground support equipment, and environmental testing in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design, analyze, procure, assemble, and test satellite structures, mechanisms, and solar arrays.
• Identify loads, interface, and functional requirements at the component- and systems-level.
• Select materials and mechanical components suitable for space environments.
• Incorporate design for manufacturing (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA) features.
• Contribute to and help define high-level spacecraft architecture.
• Collaborate with the electrical engineering team to successfully integrate avionics and wiring harnesses.
• Perform mechanical and/or thermal analysis of spacecraft systems.
• Generate manufacturing drawings, manage BOMs, and source components.
• Participate in hands-on prototyping, building and testing of spacecraft components.
• Assist in the development sub-assembly and vehicle level environmental test plans (launch vibration, thermal vacuum, etc.).
• Design ground support equipment including assembly jigs, test fixtures, and mass offload systems.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams for successful vehicle integration.
• Assist in the expansion and improvement of Samara manufacturing, environmental test, and vehicle integration facilities.
• Identify ways to improve operational efficiency.

Qualifications: 

• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or equivalent.
• 3+ years of spacecraft mechanical design and integration (or equivalent) experience.
• Proficiency in computer aided design (CAD) software of choice, NX preferred.
• Experience with structural and thermal hand calculations and analysis (FEA experience preferred but not required).
• Experience with design and fabrication of composite and/or metallic components.
• Ability to generate engineering drawings with sufficient GD&T to effectively communicate design and manufacturing intent.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings and schematics.
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and be self-motivated while working in a dynamic environment.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills.

Preferred: 

• Experience with spacecraft environmental testing (launch vibration, thermal vacuum, etc.).
• A passion for hands-on hardware development in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with composite structures.
• Proficiency in NX.
• Experience with Thermal Desktop and/or NX Nastran
• Machine shop prototyping and fabrication experience (CNC mill/router, mill, lathe, laser cutter, 3D printer, hand tools).
• Experience in Python or other programming languages.

Salary and Benefits:

• Pay range: $130,000-150,000 annually to start 
• Early and competitive equity in a rapidly growing startup 
• Platinum-level healthcare, vision, dental, and life insurance covered 100% for you 
• Partial dependent coverage available 
• 401k matching at 4% (no vesting) 
• Unlimited PTO and sick time 
• 17 paid holidays (including a “winter break” Dec. 24-Jan. 1)
• Relocation assistance is available 

Work Authorization
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. 
Samara Aerospace does not currently sponsor employment visas for this position.
Employment eligibility will be verified upon hire in accordance with federal law.

About Lodestar

Lodestar's mission is to develop the first "Protect and Defend" capability for high-value space assets in orbit. Our flagship product, MITHRIL, is our hardware-agnostic, AI-enabled autonomy software suite that enables us to augment any off-the-shelf spacecraft with the ability to autonomously detect, characterise, and reversibly neutralise orbital threats. By building on the proven space heritage of our best-in-class satellite-bus partners and fully integrating MITHRIL into single unified platform, we deliver an end-to-end, autonomous in-space bodyguarding service.

About the Job

At Lodestar, as a Software Engineer - On-board Autonomy, you’ll be developing the decision-making systems at the heart of Lodestar’s autonomy suite. You’ll focus on creating algorithms that evaluate mission context, system capabilities, and environmental conditions to recommend and execute optimal actions. These models adapt dynamically to changing conditions, enabling real-time autonomous decision-making even in communications-limited or uncertain environments. Your work will bridge perception, prediction, and control, allowing spacecraft to operate intelligently, efficiently, and resiliently across complex mission scenarios.

We proudly have an "extreme ownership" oriented engineering culture. 

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement on-board decision-making models that recommend and adapt strategies in real time
• Develop autonomous decision algorithms that integrate information from perception, state estimation, and intent prediction models to execute mission objectives
• Research and implement ML models for decision making - everything from lit. review, through training, to deployment
• Implement decision models that adapt dynamically to changing mission context, environmental conditions, and system status
• Develop frameworks for continuous re-evaluation of active strategies to ensure resilient and adaptive behavior under uncertainty
• Support real-time autonomy in communications-limited or time-critical scenarios
• Build and maintain autonomy infrastructure, testing frameworks, and deployment pipelines for space missions

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, a related field, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of distinguished industry experience in autonomy, decision-making, or control systems for aerospace/robotics
• Strong proficiency in C++ and Python and DL frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Demonstrated experience with machine learning applied to decision-making or control problems
• Track record with optimal control, planning, or reinforcement learning in real-time systems
• Familiarity with multi-agent decision-making or planning under uncertainty

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Track record implementing autonomy applications in real-time or safety-critical environments
• Experience integrating perception and prediction outputs into decision frameworks
• Familiarity with resource-aware strategy selection and optimization under uncertainty
• Background in reinforcement learning, hierarchical planning, or adaptive control
• Experience with distributed training and cloud-based scaling of ML models (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with Linux, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable with containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with real-time systems, multi-threading, and performance optimization
• Strong understanding of distributed autonomy, networking, and communication protocols

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay Range:
  • (E1) Junior Software Engineer: $120,000 - $145,000 / year
  • (E2) Software Engineer: $140,000 - $180,000 / year
  • (E3) Senior Software Engineer: Competitive
• Meaningful equity incentives as part of our employee option pool
• Flexible PTO with generous paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave
• Comprehensive medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• LA or San Francisco

Additional Information

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options , and access to medical, vision and dental coverage, as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.

Lodestar is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Lodestar is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.