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Senior Electrical Engineer, Power

Planet Labs · San Francisco, CA, US

Planet Labs is hiring a staff Senior Electrical Engineer, Power in San Francisco, CA, US. What you'll do: interviewing, hiring, and research, work across the security and compliance domains. Qualifications: 10+ years of experience and familiarity with Python. Contract, hybrid, paying $183K.

Hiring signals for Electrical Engineers

SOC 17-2071 — measured across all currently-active postings classified to this occupation.

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Electrical Engineers Job Market Score

Driven by
  • Pay is above the national median ($156k vs $135k national)
  • Slow inflow of new postings (only 16% from the last 14 days)
  • Few reposted listings (22% appear duplicated)

Electrical Engineers job market

Aggregated from currently-active postings tracked in Electrical Engineers.

  • 514Active postings
  • 15Posted this week
  • 220Open 30+ days43% of active
  • 4Remote / hybrid1% of active
  • 3%List salary15 of 514
  • 0%Hourly0 of disclosed
  • $156kMedian annual (max)
  • Median hourly (max)
  • 23dMedian agep90 60d (long tail)

Wages by category

BucketJobsMedian annualMedian hourly
Engineering464$156k n=15
Data Analyst1
Maintenance Technician1

Wages by employment type

BucketJobsMedian annualMedian hourly
Contract12$145k n=5
Full-time11$191k n=3
Intern9

Wages by sector

BucketJobsMedian annualMedian hourly
Manufacturing425$125k n=10
Government / Public Sector202
Technology182$173k n=11
Healthcare29
Transportation & Logistics20

Top categories

  • Engineering464
  • Data Analyst1
  • Maintenance Technician1

In-demand skills

  • AWS12
  • Python9
  • Go8
  • C++2
  • Perl2
  • Agile2
  • Java1
  • C#1

Top sectors

  • Manufacturing425
  • Government / Public Sector202
  • Technology182
  • Healthcare29
  • Transportation & Logistics20
  • Retail19

Employment mix

  • Unspecified482 · 94%
  • Contract12 · 2%
  • Full-time11 · 2%
  • Intern9 · 2%

Top hiring companies

Category
Engineering
Salary
$183k · contract · hybrid
Source
job-boards.greenhouse.io
Original link
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetlabs/jobs/7368309
Posted
5 months ago (2025-11-13)
Status
active

Skills: Python

Topics: Security, Compliance

Activities: Interviewing, Hiring, Research

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