Senior Program Chief Engineer — Satellite Ground Systems

Quindar; Arvada (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Health insurance

4% 401(k) matching

Annual company offsite

Job summary

Quindar in Colorado seeks a Chief Engineer to lead aerospace software programs, integrating mission software, platform infrastructure, and operations. You will act as a senior technical leader across software, systems, and mission domains while engaging with customers and domain architects.

The role requires strong software and systems understanding, operational awareness, and the ability to guide multi-disciplinary teams through complex technical execution in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Software architecture

Systems integration

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mission operations

Satellite ground systems

Customer engagement

Problem solving

Mentorship

Tools

Flight dynamics tools

Mission planning tools

C2 tools

Job description

Quindar in Colorado seeks a Chief Engineer to lead aerospace software programs, integrating mission software, platform infrastructure, and operations. You will act as a senior technical leader across software, systems, and mission domains while engaging with customers and domain architects.

The role requires strong software and systems understanding, operational awareness, and the ability to guide multi-disciplinary teams through complex technical execution in a fast-paced environment.