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About the role
You will be responsible for developing the backend Command & Control (C2) software that connects Quindar’s platform to satellite vehicles. Quindar enables users to operate large, heterogeneous constellations, and in this role you will build the systems that allow an ever-growing variety of spacecraft to communicate reliably with our platform while abstracting that complexity away from our users so they can focus on their core mission.
What they're looking for
- Proficiency in backend or systems programming languages such as Python and Rust
- Experience building software that communicates with, controls, or processes data from remote machines, embedded systems, hardware assets, or other complex systems
- Experience implementing or integrating machine-to-machine communication protocols , including concepts such as binary serialization, framing, packetization, transport, message routing, sequencing, acknowledgements, error handling, and state management
- Experience with real-time or embedded software, distributed systems, networking, telecommunications, robotics, IoT, industrial systems, or hardware/software integration
- Experience with satellite communication standards such as CCSDS, CSP, CFDP, and IP is preferred but not required , experience implementing comparable protocols or communication standards in another industry is highly relevant
- Familiarity with structured command, telemetry, or interface definitions such as XTCE and MIB is preferred, experience with analogous schemas, IDLs, protocol definitions, message catalogs, or data models from other industries is equally relevant
More about this role
You will be responsible for developing the backend Command & Control (C2) software that connects Quindar’s platform to satellite vehicles. Quindar enables users to operate large, heterogeneous constellations, and in this role you will build the systems that allow an ever-growing variety of spacecraft to communicate reliably with our platform while abstracting that complexity away from our users so they can focus on their core mission.
At its core, this is a machine-to-machine communications and systems integration problem . You will work with binary protocols, command and telemetry definitions, data transport, serialization and encoding, stateful communication, hardware interfaces, and the operational realities of communicating with remote systems where reliability matters.
You will bring or develop expertise in aerospace C2 concepts and industry standards such as CCSDS, CSP, CFDP, XTCE, and MIB . Direct experience with these standards is valuable, but it is not a prerequisite. We are equally interested in engineers who have solved similar problems in adjacent domains—including telecommunications, networking, robotics, industrial automation, IoT, defense systems, distributed...
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