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title: 'Industrial Security Specialist at Quindar'
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# Industrial Security Specialist at Quindar

- **Company:** Quindar
- **Location:** Denver, CO
- **Compensation:** $90k–$135k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quindar/61bbe268-58ce-4485-bbb6-72a3a24729ce

## Job description

## About the Role

Quindar is standing up an Industrial Security Program to support mission partners across the U.S. Government. We are seeking an Industrial Security Specialist I/II/III who thrives in a hands-on environment and is excited to help build, scale, and mature a compliant, high-impact security program supporting DoD and Intelligence Community (IC) customers. In this role, you will work closely with the Facility Security Officer (FSO) and play a critical role in day-to-day security operations, compliance, and process development. You will be a key contributor to developing Quindar’s Industrial Security Program and implementing industrial security standards across new and existing secure spaces, directly enabling classified mission execution.

## What You’ll Be Doing

- Support the development and delivery of security training, education, and awareness programs
- Manage the full personnel clearance lifecycle, including initial submissions, upgrades, and reinvestigations
- Support classified onboarding and offboarding briefings for employees
- Provide local visitor control and classified meeting support
- Review SF-86s for adequacy and completeness
- Process incoming and outgoing Visit Access Requests (VARs)
- Assist with DCSA self-inspections, assessments, and audits
- Support the maintenance and continued build out of security compliance software
- Help develop, revise, and maintain security policies, SPPs, and internal processes
- Support physical security operations, including badging, visitor access, and secure storage
- Assist with security briefings and presentations
- Support ad hoc projects as the security program continues to grow and evolve
- Creating and implementing new security processes for newly established secure facilities and environments
- Direct support to government programs implementing industrial security requirements from SCI Nominations to building and reviewing DD-254s.

This Role Is a Great Fit If You

- Enjoy building structure where minimal processes currently exist
- Are comfortable wearing multiple hats in a fast-paced environment
- Take pride in precision, compliance, and enabling mission success
- Are confident in your industrial security knowledge and when you don’t know something, your response is, “I’ll find out.”

## Qualifications

Required:

- U.S. Citizen
- Active Top Secret clearance
- High school diploma or higher
- 2–4 years of DoD/DCSA security experience supporting an FSO or CSSO
- Hands-on experience with DISS, NISS, SWFT, and NBIS
- Working knowledge of the NISPOM 32 CFR Part 117 and DoD 5200 series manuals
- Experience managing the full clearance lifecycle (initials, upgrades, reinvestigations)
- Experience with the life cycle of employee security reporting
- Experience with document control and the secure handling and transmittal of classified materials and data, including inventory management, secure shipping, and couriering of classified documents and physical media
- Experience in DCSA incident reporting process
- Experience working directly and professionally with program managers, customers, government partners, and vendors.
- Strong attention to detail with excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Experience building or scaling security processes in a growing organization
- Experience completing a DCSA self-inspection
- Experience in reviewing DD-254s to establish program security requirements
- Complete the CDSE DCSA FSO Possessing Facilities Certification within six months of hire

Preferred:

- CDSE DCSA FSO Possessing Facilities Certification
- Active Top Secret clearance with CI Poly
- Experience supporting DCSA Open Storage accreditations and annual inspections
- Prior involvement in day-to-day SCIF operations
- Experience working in a startup or small company environment during periods of rapid growth or major contract wins
- Experience with SCI nominations and associated reporting requirements
- Experience building sub-contractor DD-254s and flowing to customer
- Experience implementing or scaling security software systems to support an Industrial Security Program
- Experience transitioning security requirements to a new facility.

What Success Looks Like

- Successfully transition Industrial Security processes and day-to-day security operations to Quindar’s new facility.
- Support the stand-up and operational readiness of new classified spaces
- Take ownership of assigned Industrial Security functions while maintaining the ability to provide cross-functional support across the team.
- Help build, document, and improve scalable security processes as Quindar’s classified programs and workforce grow.
- Become a trusted security resource for employees, program teams, and internal stakeholders.
- Proactively identify gaps, track actions through completion, and help keep security requirements from becoming program or operational blockers.
- Develop strong working relationships with DCSA, government customers, and other external security stakeholders as applicable.
- Successfully operate in a growing environment, balancing new program/facility development with day-to-day Industrial Security operations

## About Quindar

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Quindar provides a cloud-native, automation-first mission management platform that enables satellite operators to monitor, control, and automate spacecraft operations at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Arvada, Colorado, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Nate Hamet (CEO), Zach Meza (Head of Engineering & Co-Founder), Shaishav Parekh (Co-Founder), Sandilya Bhagavathula (Co-Founder), David Lawrence (Co-Founder & Head of Strategy)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Space Technology / Satellite Operations / Aerospace & Defense
- **Target customers**: Commercial satellite operators, government space agencies (e.g., NASA), defense organizations, and constellation operators (B2B, Enterprise, Government)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Satellites are flying servers in space, we provide the ground software to keep them up and running." The company aims to democratize space by providing the IT infrastructure for satellite operations, allowing customers to focus on their mission.

## Products & Services
- **Quindar Mission Management Platform**: A cloud-hosted, one-stop-shop for spacecraft analysis, test, and operations. It provides a Common Operating Picture (COP) for multi-mission awareness, system-of-systems integration, and automation. Key features include:
    - **Automation-First Operations**: Allows a single engineer to operate hundreds of satellites.
    - **Common Operating Picture**: Unifies visibility and control across spacecraft, payloads, and ground systems.
    - **System-of-Systems Integration**: Integrates with existing satellite architectures (e.g., AWS, Atlas antennas, KSAT) without forcing replacement.
    - **Resiliency**: Adapts to disruptions across spacecraft, networks, and ground infrastructure.
    - **Open Architecture (MOSA)**: Built on modular, standards-based principles for vendor independence.
    - **Security**: Built on AWS GovCloud with FedRAMP and NIST security controls.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$8.8M** across 6 rounds (Seed, Pre-Seed, Grants). Annual Revenue estimated at **$3.2M**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
    - **Booz Allen Ventures** (strategic investment in July 2024)
    - **FUSE** (led the $6M Seed round in January 2024)
    - **KSAT** (Kongsberg Satellite Services) – partnership for antenna network integration
    - **Y Combinator** (Summer 2022 batch)
    - **Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)**
    - **Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade**
- **Growth Signals**:
    - **Headcount**: 45 employees (+68.8% YoY growth)
    - **LinkedIn Followers**: 4,517 (+57% YoY)
    - **Active Job Postings**: 30 (+650% YoY growth in postings)
    - **Recent News**: Booz Allen Ventures investment (2024), $6M Seed extension (2024), partnership with KSAT (2024)
    - **Talent Sources**: Strong hiring from Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Sierra Space, Capella Space, and Metrea Orbital Effects.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding Team Expertise**: Founded by six former OneWeb engineers who built the software platform operating the second-largest satellite constellation in orbit. They have deep, first-hand experience with the pain points of legacy ground systems.
- **Cloud-Native & Automation-First**: Unlike legacy COTS products built 20+ years ago, Quindar is a modern, web-native SaaS platform designed for scale (hundreds of satellites per operator).
- **Vendor Independence**: The platform integrates with existing hardware and software (antennas, satellites, ground systems) without requiring replacement, reducing customer lock-in and migration risk.
- **Government & Defense Trust**: Already trusted by government and defense organizations, with a focus on FedRAMP and NIST security controls, positioning it well for the growing defense space market.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Platform**: Continuing to build out automation and AI tools for spacecraft management (e.g., AI-driven anomaly detection).
- **Government & Defense Expansion**: Deepening relationships with US government and defense agencies, as evidenced by the Booz Allen investment and dedicated business development roles.
- **Partnership Ecosystem**: Expanding integrations with antenna networks (KSAT, Atlas) and cloud providers (AWS) to offer a more complete, turnkey solution.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, product, and business development to support rapid growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: A fast-paced, engineering-driven startup founded by operators who "lived the pain" of satellite operations. The mission is to democratize space and make satellite operations as reliable as cloud computing.
- **Growth Trajectory**: The company is in a high-growth phase (68% headcount growth, 650% job posting growth YoY), offering significant career advancement opportunities.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: The company has a presence in Arvada, CO, and Irvine, CA, and appears to support remote work (job postings list multiple US locations). The Y Combinator profile lists "Irvine, CA, US / Arvada, CO, US" as locations.
- **Engineering Culture**: Described as "automation first" and "mission ready." The team is composed of engineers from top aerospace and tech companies (OneWeb, Lockheed Martin, Boeing). The tech stack is modern (cloud-native, AWS GovCloud).
- **Notable Perks**: Working on cutting-edge space technology with a direct impact on national security and commercial space infrastructure. The company is backed by top-tier investors (Y Combinator, Booz Allen).

## Sources
1. [quindar.space](https://quindar.space/)
2. [quindar.space/about-us](https://quindar.space/about-us/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/quindarspace](https://www.linkedin.com/company/quindarspace)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/quindar](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/quindar)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/quindar](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quindar)
6. [spacenews.com](https://spacenews.com/quindar-raises-6-million-for-automation-of-satellite-constellation-operations/)
7. [spacenews.com](https://spacenews.com/booz-allen-ventures-invests-in-space-tech-startup-quindar/)

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