# Mission Integration Engineer

**Company:** [Quindar](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/quindar)
**Location:** Arvada, CO, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $150k – $180k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Satellite Ground Systems, Systems Engineering, Mission Integration, Solutions Architecture, Requirements Management, Verification & Validation, Mbse, Icd Development, Conops, Technical Proposal Development, Satellite Operations, Tt&C, Cloud Deployments, Docker, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-06-05

> Mission Integration Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering integrated satellite ground systems. Owns technical path from opportunity shaping through verified mission deployment, including solution architecture, systems engineering, and cross-functional technical leadership.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities

### Mission Architecture & Opportunity Shaping
- Serve as a technical subject matter expert for customer opportunities, deeply understanding the customer's mission, CONOPS, operational needs, interfaces, constraints, and success criteria
- Lead solution architecture for commercial and government opportunities
- Partner with sales and business development teams to shape deal strategy, technical scope, proposal approach, and customer-facing solution narratives
- Support technical proposal development, including RFI/RFP responses, compliance matrices, architecture descriptions, technical volumes, BOEs, demos, and customer design reviews
- Translate customer mission needs into clear technical solutions that align Quindar's platform capabilities, product roadmap, engineering capacity, and delivery approach
- Identify product gaps, integration risks, and architectural tradeoffs early in the opportunity lifecycle and drive alignment across internal teams
- Support customer meetings, technical interchange meetings, site visits, conferences, and program reviews as needed

### Systems Engineering & Mission Integration
- Own the systems engineering process and outcomes for assigned missions, with the level of rigor tailored to the customer and program
- Lead or coordinate requirements development, requirements management, interface definition, architecture documentation, verification planning, and acceptance criteria
- Own the verification and validation process across mission threads, including commanding, telemetry, automation, mission data flows, operational workflows, and mission-specific analytics
- Coordinate V&V execution across product, software engineering, forward-deployed engineering, customer, and program stakeholders
- Develop and maintain mission-relevant systems engineering artifacts such as requirements documents, ICDs, CONOPS, verification matrices, test plans, acceptance plans, and architecture models
- Support more formal systems engineering approaches for government programs, including traceability, documentation discipline, MBSE, and structured technical reviews
- Ensure technical decisions are clearly documented, communicated, and aligned across customer, engineering, product, and delivery teams

### Product Strategy & Platform Feedback
- Advise product strategy and roadmap direction based on recurring customer needs, mission patterns, and technical gaps observed across opportunities and integrations
- Distinguish between one-off mission-specific needs and repeatable platform capabilities that should influence product direction
- Work with product and engineering teams to define feature requirements, technical priorities, and architectural considerations for mission-driven capabilities
- Maintain a strong understanding of Quindar's platform, software architecture, deployment models, and technical constraints in order to represent the product accurately and credibly to customers
- Help ensure Quindar's platform evolves in a way that supports a broad range of mission classes, customer environments, and operational models

### Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
- Function as a Mission Architect alongside the Chief Engineer, Software Architect, Lead Mission Architect, and other technical leaders
- Bridge customer needs, sales strategy, product capabilities, software implementation, and delivery execution
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to customers, executives, engineers, operators, and program stakeholders
- Drive alignment across teams in ambiguous or fast-moving situations
- Help establish scalable practices, templates, and technical patterns for future opportunities and missions

## Qualifications

### Required Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience in satellite ground systems, mission integration, systems engineering, technical sales, mission operations, software platform engineering, government aerospace programs, spacecraft systems, or a related field
- Experience working with complex technical systems that require coordination across software, hardware, operations, customer, and program stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to understand a technical system deeply and translate customer or mission needs into executable architecture, requirements, scope, and delivery plans
- Experience supporting customer-facing technical work such as solution architecture, technical proposals, design reviews, requirements discussions, integration planning, or technical program execution
- Familiarity with satellite operations, TT&C concepts, ground system architectures, mission operations workflows, or spacecraft-to-ground interfaces
- Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to write clearly, present technical concepts, and create structured documentation

### Highly Desired Experience
- 8–12+ years of experience for senior or principal-level candidates
- Prior experience with government space programs, classified programs, or formal aerospace systems engineering processes
- Experience with technical proposal development, RFP/RFI responses, compliance matrices, solution narratives, or scope definition
- Experience with requirements management, V&V planning, acceptance testing, ICDs, CONOPS, MBSE, and technical review processes
- Familiarity with Cameo, SysML, Git-based engineering workflows, or similar systems engineering and documentation approaches
- Experience with cloud-based ground systems, modern software platforms, APIs, automation, and satellite operations software
- Ability to code or script when needed, especially for analysis, test automation, system configuration, prototyping, or workflow acceleration
- Comfort using modern AI tools to improve technical analysis, documentation, proposal development, systems engineering workflows, and engineering productivity
- Experience with containerized or cloud deployments, such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, or AWS GovCloud

## Education
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

## Clearance & Export Requirements
- Active Top Secret clearance required on day one
- SCI eligibility or active TS/SCI is highly desired
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

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