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QuindarQuindarArvada, CO

Staff Engineer, Ground Systems

Senior technical leader serving as Chief Engineer for satellite ground systems programs, coordinating across mission software, infrastructure, and operations teams while contributing hands-on to design and troubleshooting.

170k – 210k
Hybrid8+ YOEEmbedded Engineering

About the role

Key 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 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)

Benefits

  • 15 days minimum PTO with unlimited PTO policy
  • Quarterly health & wellness benefits
  • 100% health insurance coverage for employees and family
  • 4% 401(k) matching
  • Annual 4-day company offsite

Skills

Satellite Ground SystemsMission OperationsCommand And ControlFlight DynamicsMission PlanningDistributed Software SystemsSoftware ArchitectureSystems IntegrationAerospace SystemsSecurity Clearance
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