What is a QA Engineer at Planet?
A QA Engineer at Planet plays a critical role in ensuring the reliability and precision of a highly complex, interconnected ecosystem. Planet operates the world's largest fleet of earth-imaging satellites, capturing daily high-resolution imagery of the entire Earth's landmass. Ensuring that the hardware, flight software, data pipelines, and web platforms function flawlessly is not just a matter of software quality—it directly impacts global monitoring, disaster response, and climate change analysis.
In this role, you will bridge the gap between complex aerospace hardware and scalable cloud software. Whether you are validating flight software, troubleshooting avionics subsystems, or testing the APIs that deliver terabytes of geospatial data to customers, your work ensures that data flows seamlessly from space to the cloud. You will work alongside aerospace engineers, software developers, and product managers to build robust, automated test suites that prevent regressions and catch critical edge cases before they reach orbit or production.
This position demands a unique blend of traditional software quality assurance, hardware-software integration, and systems-level thinking. If you are excited by the challenge of testing software that controls physical assets in space, or managing massive data pipelines where a single bug can corrupt global datasets, the QA Engineer role at Planet offers an exceptionally high-impact engineering environment.

