Senior Software Engineer, Flight + Plan

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Quindar
Full time
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USA
10/02/2026
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Washington, DC

Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of mission-planning, scheduling, optimization, and operational-automation systems.
Develop and validate algorithms for planning and resource-allocation problems across large solution spaces.
Build high-performance APIs and distributed services for low-latency and compute-intensive workloads.
Improve the scalability, reliability, observability, and operational readiness of mission-critical systems.
Collaborate with software, program, product, operations, and engineering teams to translate complex requirements into production solutions.
Shape technical direction, mentor engineers, and use automation and AI-assisted practices to improve engineering velocity and quality.

Requirements

Strong proficiency in Python and deep experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems.
Experience developing high-performance software for low-latency, compute-intensive, or data-intensive workloads.
Applied experience with optimization, scheduling, search, planning, resource allocation, constraint programming, mixed-integer programming, vehicle routing, heuristics, or other operations-research methods.
Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, computational complexity, performance analysis, and system profiling.
Experience with APIs, distributed systems, relational databases, and containerized cloud applications.
Strong software-engineering fundamentals, including architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, and modern Git-based workflows.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least six years of professional software-engineering experience involving backend systems, distributed systems, optimization, planning, modeling and simulation, or related technical domains.
Demonstrated ability to drive complex software from concept and technical design through production deployment and operation.
Active U.S. Secret security clearance and ability to maintain it throughout employment.
Preferred experience includes flight dynamics, orbital mechanics, astrodynamics, spacecraft operations, aerospace modeling and simulation, cislunar mission design, trajectory planning, or Earth-Moon system operations.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO, at least 15 days off annually, and most U.S. federal holidays.
Quarterly health and wellness benefits and comprehensive health insurance with 100% employee coverage.
4% 401(k) match.
Annual four-day company offsite at destinations across the country.
Collaborative small-team environment with opportunities to influence technology and company direction.

Salary: $140k - $180k/yr

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 co...

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