Quality Engineer

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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. 

We are hiring immediately for a Quality Engineer to join our team to work in our Longmont, CO office with the option for work-from-home up to two days per week.

In this role, you will review products prior to delivery, ensuring they meet or exceed Product Specification.

Life with Us:

There is a reason we boast awards like Best Employer, Best Place to work, Top employer, candidate experience winner. Our strength is in our people. Each team member makes a unique contribution to our collective mission. So we recognize that with best in class benefits like:

• Career growth opportunities
• Family friendly benefits like maternity and paternity leave, adoption reimbursement, flexible hours, hybrid work options
• Program to help you grow like tuition reimbursement, hackathons, and career development
• Student loan repayment
• “Generous” time off
• Plus everything you’d expect from a leading employer such as a matching and immediately vest 401K plan, robust insurance coverage, medical, dental and vision, etc.

Your Project: Whether it is imagery, raster or vector data, the Quality and Delivery team ensures all products meet or exceed both internal requirements and customer expectations. In this role, you will be responsible for performing Quality Control on a wide range of geospatial products.

Your Career: We’re very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members with the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your manager, or a mentor, to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.

What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, conference attendance, corporate partner and industry training, peer group collaboration, hackathons, as well as paid certifications, education reimbursement and student loan forgiveness.

What you'll do day-to-day:

• Review products prior to delivery, ensuring they meet or exceed Product Specification.
• Ensure that quality standards are being met on all Maxar geospatial products
• Provide timely quality assessments
• Partner with other teams in the Operations department to meet quarterly revenue goals
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum requirements for this position:

• Must be a U.S. citizen, have current or ability to obtain U.S. government security clearance
• Minimum of 2 years of geospatial work experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Geography, GIS, or related field. Two additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree
• Proficiency with imagery, DTM/DSM, and vector products
• Must be willing to be on-call typically once every six to seven weeks - when you are "on-call" you are paid salary plus shift differential pay
• Additional volunteer on-call opportunities available during holidays with additional pay
• Must be willing to travel to Longmont.

These skills would be preferred:

• Experience with Unix/Linux at the command line
• Proficient in the Microsoft Office suite of products
• Ability to support time-sensitive requirements
• Advanced knowledge of ArcGIS and Global Mapper
• Geospatial production background

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In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings.  The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.

● The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $59,000.00 - $99,000.00 annually.

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we h