Successful candidates often come from backgrounds in satellite ground systems, mission operations, or other complex distributed software systems with a focus on both defense and commercial space operations.
The ideal candidate combines strong software and systems understanding with operational awareness and the ability to lead technical execution across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Serve as a program technical leader / Chief Engineer for complex commercial and government space programs
Support successful engineering execution across mission software, platform infrastructure, reliability, security, and integration activities
Coordinate technical alignment across engineering teams to ensure cohesive system behavior and successful mission execution
Partner with engineering leads to identify and resolve cross-system technical risks, interface challenges, and integration concerns
Support architectural cohesion and long-term technical evolution across Quindar's ground systems ecosystem
Contribute to technical strategy, system design, and architecture development for mission operations platforms
Participate in proposal development, technical solution definition, and customer technical engagements
Conduct technical reviews, design reviews, and mission readiness assessments
Support anomaly investigation, troubleshooting, and operational issue resolution for mission-critical systems
Provide mentorship and technical guidance to engineers across the organization
Contribute directly to engineering efforts through design, implementation, prototyping, and technical problem solving
Requirements
8+ years of experience developing, integrating, or operating aerospace, satellite, or mission-critical software systems
Strong technical breadth across software systems, operational systems, and aerospace mission domains
Experience with satellite ground systems, mission operations, command and control, or flight dynamics and mission planning tools
Experience designing, integrating, or operating distributed software systems in production environments
Strong understanding of software architecture, systems integration, and operational reliability
Ability to communicate effectively across software, operations, platform / infrastructure, and customer stakeholders
Experience leading technical efforts across multidisciplinary engineering teams
Comfortable operating in ambiguous and rapidly evolving technical environments
Active U.S. Security Clearance (TS/SCI Preferred, S Required)
ITAR REQUIREMENTS
Why you'll love working at Quindar
We work in a cutting edge industry and you will get the opportunity to be part of a small team with a large direct impact on the success of our customers' space missions!
We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.
Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.
Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.
We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.
Each year we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.
Our culture and company is evolving. You will be key in creating the next major or minor version!
Quindar · Arvada (hq)