4 hours ago
Denver, CO, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Develop backend Command & Control software connecting Quindar’s platform to satellite vehicles.
- Implement reliable machine-to-machine communications involving binary protocols, command and telemetry definitions, data transport, serialization, encoding, stateful communication, and hardware interfaces.
- Onboard new satellite vehicles by translating spacecraft-specific interfaces and protocols into maintainable platform integrations.
- Develop abstractions, tooling, and architecture that support many spacecraft without requiring every integration to be built from scratch.
- Design systems that scale across diverse vehicles, protocols, missions, and operational constraints.
- Troubleshoot and drive technically ambiguous integration problems through completion while communicating complex technical information to internal and customer-facing audiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least three years of professional experience developing software for satellite C2 or comparable complex machine-to-machine and hardware/software systems.
- Proficiency in backend or systems programming languages such as Python and Rust.
- Experience communicating with, controlling, or processing data from remote machines, embedded systems, hardware assets, or other complex systems.
- Experience implementing or integrating machine-to-machine communication protocols and concepts including binary serialization, framing, packetization, transport, routing, sequencing, acknowledgements, error handling, and state management.
- Experience taking a protocol, interface specification, or hardware integration from documentation through implementation, testing, troubleshooting, and production operation.
- Experience with real-time or embedded software, distributed systems, networking, telecommunications, robotics, IoT, industrial systems, or hardware/software integration.
- Understanding of reliable communication with remote or intermittently connected systems, including bandwidth constraints, latency, retries, fault handling, and observability.
- Experience with relational and/or time-series databases and familiarity with Git and GitHub or similar version-control workflows.
- Preferred familiarity with CCSDS, CSP, CFDP, IP, XTCE, and MIB or comparable communication standards, schemas, interface definitions, and data models.
- Experience integrating AES-256 GCM, AES-256 CFB, AES-256 ECB, NSA Type 1 PEGASUS, or NSA Type 1 CARIBOU encryption algorithms is a plus.
- Experience with Kubernetes platforms, DevSecOps practices, and open-source software is preferred or a plus.
- Strong technical analysis, systems thinking, troubleshooting, adaptability, ownership, maintainability focus, cross-functional communication, and willingness to learn the aerospace domain.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with two days per week in the Arvada, Colorado, Washington, D.C., or Seattle, Washington office, with significant remote work.
About Quindar
Quindar provides a cloud hosted, one-stop-shop for spacecraft analysis, test and operations. We maintain the infrastructure and software so you only need to manage your spacecraft procedures and operational processes. Control all of your unique missions on a single platform that scales to each constellations requirements. Spend more time focusing on your mission and less on the software with Quindar's comprehensive platform.