Job Description

Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost effectiveness. 

Why join us?  
There is a reason we receive awards like Best Place to Work, Best Employer, Top Workplace and Candidate Experience winner. Our strength is in our people. Each team member makes a unique contribution to our collective mission, and we recognize that with best-in-class offerings like:  

• Work-life balance to include flexible working opportunities and generous time off.  
• Family-first benefits like adoption reimbursement, pet insurance and mental health resources.  
• Educational perks such as student loan repayment, paid certifications and tuition reimbursement.   
• Career growth opportunities including an internal mobility program and leadership training and development.  

About the Role:  

Maxar is seeking a Principal Application Engineer to join Maxar’s Product Engineering team. In this role you will have the ability to influence the direction of the Maxar Product Roadmap, creating compelling & creative solutions to market needs. You will be a subject matter expert will interact across the engineering team, product team and our sales teams to build compelling solutions leveraging our suite of capabilities. The Solutions Architect will be a highly motivated individual with a proven track record across a variety of technical roles. The position requires strong leadership and communication skills, sophisticated business and technical acumen, and the ability to drive the development of solutions. 

Responsibilities 

• Enable US Government technical sales activity by designing and developing solutions through pre-sales engagements with customers and early prototyping.  
• Rigorous technical and solutions qualification of innovation projects and sales opportunities focusing resources on those opportunities/projects which differentiate in the marketplace.  
• Develop and deploy unique technology solutions as proofs-of-concept. 
• Develop and present innovative, scalable, and cost-effective solutions to meet customer needs. 
• Continually assess product quality, release readiness, and maintain existing Maxar solutions. 
• Interact directly with customers and their technical experts to review, understand, and gather requirements and convey those technical requirements to Maxar internal teams 
• Articulate and clearly communicate with multiple Maxar stakeholders and leaders with consistency and integrity.  
• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and government regulations. 

Minimum Requirements: 

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Geospatial Information Systems) 
• 10 or more years of enterprise experience in relevant technical and business fields in remote sensing, defense, and intelligence or geospatial industry.  
• Software development experience (e.g., JavaScript, Python, API Development, Database Management) 
• Able to analyze customer requirements and perform geospatial feasibility studies using tools such as Excel, ArcGIS, and MATLAB 
• Exceptionally strong communication skills across multiple disciplines, including written, verbal and solutions architectural diagrams
• Self-motivated with good interpersonal and negotiating skills.  
• Results-oriented team player with a demonstrated high level of integrity.  
• Demonstrates creativity in developing winning solutions.  
• Works well in a dynamic environment where some of the parameters are unknown and change is a given. 
• Strong knowledge of relevant technologies, products, services, and methods.  
• Experience with developing product demonstrations and proofs of concept to showcase the capabi