Quindar is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to deploy satellite mission software at customer ops centers

Quindar, a company whose customers run satellite missions on its software, has posted a Forward Deployed Engineer role (listed as Forward Deployed Product Engineer) based in the Denver area with other locations in Seattle and Washington, DC. Posted pay is $155,000–$175,000 plus equity, hybrid.

The work sits at the edge of ops: configure and deploy Quindar software in customer environments, troubleshoot across backend APIs, cloud, databases, and frontend, and travel to customer sites and ops centers to build trusted technical relationships. The posting also frames the job as product work—spot what is missing or too hard in the field, prototype with live customer data, and partner with Product and Engineering so successful prototypes become production code and playbooks.

For FDEs, this is a rare domain variant: mission-critical space operations rather than enterprise AI agents, with ITAR constraints (U.S. person or eligible authorization) and an expectation to use AI coding tools to ship faster. Requirements include 3+ years of software engineering with customer-facing delivery, Python proficiency, and cloud/container experience.