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Quindar is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to ensure their satellite mission software performs reliably in the field. In this hybrid product and engineering role, you'll deploy software in customer environments, troubleshoot issues across the full stack (backend APIs, cloud infrastructure, databases, frontend), and travel to customer sites to embed with operations teams and build technical relationships.
You'll prototype products using live customer data and direct feedback, act as the voice of the customer in product discussions, and translate field insights into roadmap priorities and solutions. You'll partner with Product & Engineering to turn successful prototypes into production code, develop playbooks for repeatable integrations, and maintain documentation and training resources.
This is a generalist role that moves across the full stack and leverages AI tools to ship faster. You'll work in ops centers and customer environments where failure isn't an option—your work directly impacts the success of space missions.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Aerospace, Engineering, or related field
- 3+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on customer-facing roles
- Proven track record building, deploying, or supporting production software in mission-critical environments
- Proficiency in Python; experience with TypeScript, Java, or similar is a plus
- Experience building software with AI tools (Cursor, Amp, ChatGPT)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), databases, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong product sense: ability to question requirements, spot patterns, solve problems for users
- Bias toward action: comfortable shipping prototypes quickly and iterating
- Adaptability and curiosity in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
- Relevant certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus
- Active US Security Clearance (TS/SCI) required
- Must be a US citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the US Department of State (ITAR compliance)
