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Staff Engineer, Ground Systems

Quindar
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Hybrid (Denver, CO)$170k - $210kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior technical leader for complex satellite ground systems programs, providing program-level technical leadership, system-level engineering coordination, and hands-on contribution across Quindar’s mission operations software ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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)

Skills

Required:Program technical leadership / Chief Engineer experienceSystem architecture and integrationSatellite ground systems knowledgeCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • We offer unlimited PTO with required 15 days off annually
  • Quarterly health & wellness benefits
  • Comprehensive health insurance for employee and family with 100% employee coverage
  • 4% 401(k) matching
  • Annual 4-day company offsite in multiple locations
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Quindar

The platform to monitor and automate satellite operations

Quindar is a web app used by satellite owners to analyze, test and operate their constellation. For example, Airbus could use Quindar to operate their satellite fleet with minimal human intervention. We’re six former OneWeb engineers who helped build the software platform that currently operates the second largest satellite constellation in the world. The space industry is shifting from companies launching a handful of satellites over a decade, to launching hundreds of satellites EACH in just a few years. Our SaaS platform automates mission management and for a single engineer to operate hundreds of satellites instead of the traditional model of many engineers operating a single satellite.

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