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title: 'Software Engineer - AI & Internal Systems at Quindar'
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# Software Engineer - AI & Internal Systems at Quindar

- **Company:** Quindar
- **Location:** Denver, CO
- **Compensation:** $160k–$185k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quindar/b5843e59-4ebc-425a-8e24-fa61167242a3

## Job description

Software Engineer, Internal Systems & AI

## About the Role

Quindar is building The Grid: an AI-native system that connects how the entire company thinks, communicates, and executes.

We’re looking for an engineer to operate like a Forward Deployed Engineer except your customer is Quindar. You’ll embed across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Programs, and Operations to understand how work gets done and then use software, AI agents, integrations, and automation to make it dramatically better.

This is a unique engineering role for someone who doesn’t just want to receive tickets. You’ll sit within Operations / Business Operations but work across the entire company. You’ll learn how every part of a technology company operates, identify problems yourself, and build the systems that solve them.

## What You’ll Build

The Grid should make information flow through Quindar automatically. A Product Manager writes a specification. From there:

- Engineering requirements and tickets are generated with the context needed for coding agents to begin implementation.
- Engineers review, test, and approve agent-generated software.
- Customer and administrator documentation stays synchronized with the product.
- Marketing can generate accurate blogs, release materials, and technical collateral.
- Sales and Capture teams can access approved product capabilities, architectures, and past performance when building proposals.
- Sensitive information including CUI and other controlled data stays within the appropriate security boundaries.
- Your job is to build the connective tissue that makes this possible.

## What You’ll Do

- Embed with teams across Quindar to understand how they actually work.
- Identify repetitive, manual, or fragmented workflows that should become software.
- Connect SaaS tools, APIs, databases, internal systems, LLMs, and AI agents.
- Build custom software when an integration or off-the-shelf product isn’t enough.
- Create workflows that turn Product specifications into structured engineering work.
- Give coding agents reliable context from which they can generate software for engineers to review.
- Build systems that keep internal, customer, and administrator documentation continuously current.
- Connect Product knowledge to Marketing, Sales, Capture, and Programs.
- Create secure AI-assisted workflows for government proposals and other controlled information.
- Help establish how humans and agents work together across Quindar.
- Measure what’s working, kill what isn’t, and continuously improve The Grid.

## What We’re Looking For

We care more about urgency, curiosity, technical judgment, and speed than title or tenure.

- Write production software and is comfortable learning unfamiliar systems quickly.
- Uses AI coding tools naturally and is excited about agentic software development.
- Likes talking to users and understanding the problem before building.
- Can work across APIs, data, automation, backend systems, and lightweight interfaces.
- Comfortable deploying software and writing backend/frontend code
- Is comfortable being handed an outcome rather than a detailed specification.
- Has strong curiosity about how businesses operate.
- Moves quickly and prefers shipping something useful over debating the perfect architecture.
- Can communicate effectively with engineers and non-engineers.
- Has unusually high ownership and isn’t afraid to question an existing process.
- Experience with enterprise integrations, developer tooling, LLMs, agents, knowledge systems, security, or government environments is helpful but not required.

## Why This Role Is Different

- Most engineers spend their careers going deeper into one part of the stack. In this role, you’ll go across the company.
- You’ll see how Product decisions become software, how software becomes customer value, how Marketing explains it, how Sales sells it, how government proposals are built, how security affects architecture, and how a growing company actually operates.
- If you eventually want to start a company, become an engineering or product leader, or simply understand how technology businesses work end-to-end, there are few engineering seats with this much surface area.

What Success Looks Like

- Product requirements move into Engineering with minimal manual translation.
- Coding agents can perform meaningful implementation work using structured company context.
- Documentation changes alongside the product instead of becoming stale.
- Employees can find authoritative information without knowing who to ask.
- Marketing and Growth can create accurate materials without repeatedly pulling engineers into the process.
- Capture teams can assemble compliant proposal content dramatically faster.
- Manual coordination is increasingly replaced by software and agents.
- Every new workflow makes The Grid more capable than it was before.

ITAR Requirements To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

## Why You'll Love Working at Quindar

- We work in a cutting edge industry and you will get the opportunity to be part of a small team with a large direct impact on the success of our customers’ space missions!
- We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.
- Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.
- Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.
- We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.
- Annually we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.
- Our culture and company is evolving. You will be key in creating the next major or minor version!

## 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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