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Visiting Staff Scientist

Confidential

Remote, Remote, Canada Full-time July 14, 2026

Found Description

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history.

Key Responsibilities

  • We are seeking a distinguished Visiting Staff Scientist to join our AI Research (AIR) team for a one-year sabbatical residency. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in our mission to create a “Queryable Earth” by leading the development of Planet’s proprietary geospatial foundation models (GFMs).
  • While Planet has historically leveraged external models like Google’s RSFM and RemoteCLIP, we are now focused on building in-house models specifically trained on our unique imagery. You will lead research into creating temporally dense embeddings that go beyond static annual summaries, capturing the dynamic and ephemeral nature of our planet—from rapid flooding to disaster impacts.
  • You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of Planeteers across space operations, data pipelines, and analytics to co-develop AI/ML solutions ...

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