# Forward Deployed Product Engineer

**Company:** [Quindar](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/quindar)
**Location:** Arvada, CO, Washington, DC
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $155k – $175k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Java, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Cursor, ChatGPT
**Posted:** 2026-06-04

> Forward Deployed Product Engineer who configures, deploys, and troubleshoots mission-critical satellite software at customer sites while translating field insights into product direction. Requires 3+ years software engineering experience, Python proficiency, cloud/container experience, and active TS/SCI clearance.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Configure and deploy our software in customer environments, ensuring reliability and performance across complex workflows.
- Troubleshoot issues across backend APIs, cloud infrastructure, databases, and the frontend.
- Travel to customer sites and embed with operations teams, building trusted technical relationships.
- Prototype products and iterate quickly with live customer data and direct feedback.
- Act as the voice of the customer in product discussions, translating field insights into roadmap priorities, solutions, and integrations.
- Partner with Product & Engineering to turn successful prototypes into production code.
- Develop playbooks for repeatable integrations and maintain clear documentation and training resources.

## Qualifications
**Education**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Aerospace, Engineering, or a related field.

**Experience**
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on customer-facing roles.
- Proven track record of building, deploying, or supporting production software in mission-critical environments.

**Technical Skills**
- Proficiency in Python; experience with TypeScript, Java, or similar is a plus.
- Experience building software with AI tools such as Cursor, Amp, ChatGPT.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), databases, and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

**Soft Skills**
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong product sense: ability to question requirements, spot patterns, solve problems for the users.
- Bias toward action: comfortable shipping prototypes quickly and iterating.
- Adaptability and curiosity, thriving in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.

**Certifications**
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus.
- Active US Security Clearance (TS/SCI) required.

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