Program Chief Engineer: Satellite Mission Systems Lead

Telemetry Today LLC; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Comprehensive health insurance

401(k) with 4% matching

Company offsites

Job summary

Quindar in Denver seeks a Chief Engineer to lead complex satellite ground-system programs, combining program-level technical leadership with hands-on contributions across mission software and platform infrastructure.

The Program Chief Engineer aligns architecture, operations, and security across multidisciplinary teams, while engaging with customers in technical exchanges and guiding long-term technical evolution.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing, integrating, or operating aerospace, satellite, or mission-critical software systems.
• Strong 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).

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
• Participate in 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

Job description

Quindar in Denver seeks a Chief Engineer to lead complex satellite ground-system programs, combining program-level technical leadership with hands-on contributions across mission software and platform infrastructure.

The Program Chief Engineer aligns architecture, operations, and security across multidisciplinary teams, while engaging with customers in technical exchanges and guiding long-term technical evolution.