Mission Integration Engineer

Quindar · Los Angeles, CA · 1 mo ago

HybridEngineering$150k–$180k/yrFull-time

About the role

The Mission Integration Engineer plays a critical role in defining, architecting, and delivering integrated satellite ground systems for both commercial and government customers. This role involves deep technical expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to bridge various stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
Function as a Mission Architect alongside the Chief Engineer, Software 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

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: 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.

What Makes Someone Successful in This Role

The strongest candidates will be able to quickly become experts in both Quindar’s platform and a customer’s mission. They will be comfortable moving between architecture, proposal strategy, customer conversations, requirements, verification, product gaps, and execution risk. They will know how to create structure where it does not yet exist, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and drive teams toward a shared technical outcome. This role is well suited for someone who wants to operate at the intersection of satellite missions, software, systems engineering, product strategy, and customer-facing technical leadership.

Why You’ll Love Working at Quindar