Quindar
Mission Integration Engineer
Denver, CO
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About the role
- This includes solutions and sales engineering, technical proposal development, solution architecture, product strategy input, and formal systems engineering functions during execution.
- Learn more about the ITAR here https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/ddtc_public/ddtc_public?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff621f961987.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret clearance required on day one.
- 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.
- Familiarity with satellite operations, TT&C concepts, ground system architectures, mission operations workflows, or spacecraft-to-ground interfaces.
- 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.
- 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 supporting customer-facing technical work such as solution architecture, technical proposals, design reviews, requirements discussions, integration planning, or technical program execution.
- Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to write clearly, present technical concepts, and create structured documentation.
- Experience with cloud-based ground systems, modern software platforms, APIs, automation, and satellite operations software.
Benefits
- We take work-life balance seriously, require employees to take 15 days off, provide unlimited PTO, and follow most U.S. federal government holidays.
- We offer comprehensive health insurance for you and your family, with 100% coverage for employees.
- We provide 4% 401(k) matching to help employees save for retirement.
Company info
- Each year, we host a four-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.
Visa & Work Authorization
- citizen or national, (ii) U
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