Staff Engineer, Ground Systems

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 Quindar’s ground systems ecosystem
• Contribute to technical strategy, system design, and architecture development for mission operations platforms
• Support 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)