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Quindar

Staff Engineer, Ground Systems

Quindar

Staff Engineer overseeing aerospace satellite ground systems engineering projects. Technical leadership and engineering coordination across mission operations and software development teams.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeARVADA • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
TypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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

What you’ll need
  • 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)

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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!

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Hard Skills & Tools
software architecturesystems integrationoperational reliabilitydistributed software systemsmission operations platformsanomaly investigationtroubleshootingtechnical problem solvingdesign implementationprototyping
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentorshipeffective communicationcross-disciplinary collaborationrisk identificationproblem resolutionadaptabilitystrategic thinkingcustomer engagementteam coordination
Certifications
U.S. Security Clearance (TS/SCI Preferred)U.S. Security Clearance (S Required)