Top Aerospace Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Leads cross-functional aerospace engineering projects for FAA-certified avionics systems. Responsibilities include defining scope and schedules, managing budgets, risks, technical issues, baseline changes, EVM, certification coordination, customer engagement, proposals, and status reporting. The role requires collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, certification, program management, and business teams while ensuring delivery on schedule and within budget.

Develop and maintain scalable Java and Spring Boot REST services, APIs, and microservices for mission-critical geospatial systems. Support containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, DevOps automation, testing, infrastructure deployment, data platforms, and third-party integrations. Contribute to architecture, performance optimization, troubleshooting, documentation, stakeholder demos, and Agile delivery. The role requires onsite work in Herndon, Virginia and collaboration on national security missions.

Conducts continuous cybersecurity monitoring, alert triage, initial incident analysis, and escalation. Coordinates with MSSP analysts and IT teams to investigate potential intrusions, resolve monitoring and log-source issues, and support corrective actions. Administers and enhances centralized log-management and SIEM technologies by onboarding log sources, modifying alerts, and improving monitoring coverage. The role includes on-call responsibilities, non-standard hours, cybersecurity investigations, and occasional travel.

Owns costed bills of materials, material baselines, pricing, lead-time tracking, supplier readiness, and part availability across aerospace and defense programs. Builds dashboards and cost models, leads shortage reviews, maintains ERP/MRP data, supports proposals and EAC/BOE development, coordinates engineering changes and make-versus-buy decisions, expedites critical materials, and ensures Government and Customer Furnished Property compliance under FAR/DFARS.

Leads concurrent capital and infrastructure projects from concept through commissioning and occupancy. Manages budgets, schedules, risks, consultants, contractors, permitting, construction, commissioning, and stakeholder coordination across active manufacturing, laboratory, test, and campus environments. Serves as owner’s representative, ensuring projects meet scope, cost, schedule, safety, regulatory, and operational objectives while minimizing production disruptions.

Own and maintain integrated master schedules using Microsoft Project and Planner Premium. Build baselines, manage dependencies and critical paths, track progress, analyze schedule risks and variances, and produce executive dashboards and performance metrics. Coordinate with program managers and cross-functional teams, conduct schedule risk and scenario analyses, and enforce change-control processes for program baselines.

Build and optimize scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Python, PySpark, SQL, and Apache Spark on AWS. Develop EMR data processing jobs, lead an Apache Airflow orchestration proof of concept, integrate Amazon Q for data quality and documentation, and implement GitLab CI/CD with infrastructure-as-code. The role emphasizes data governance, security, automation, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency while collaborating in Agile teams and presenting proof-of-concept findings.

Leads a cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance team; oversees PCI-DSS, NYDFS, CCPA, and other compliance certifications; manages audits, remediation, policy governance, exceptions, security awareness training, and regulatory monitoring. Partners with engineering and business leaders to translate compliance requirements into operational workflows and introduces AI-enabled governance automation.

Designs, validates, and optimizes manual and automated manufacturing processes. Implements PLC, HMI, SCADA, robotics, sensors, and instrumentation; develops 3D CAD designs, control panels, fixtures, and electrical schematics. Creates SOPs and maintenance procedures, applies Lean Manufacturing and AI-driven predictive analytics, and leads automation engineering projects from concept through deployment while meeting safety and technical standards.

Manages the company’s COMSEC program, serving as COMSEC Custodian and ensuring secure handling, accountability, storage, distribution, and destruction of COMSEC materials and equipment. Develops SOPs, manages incident response and reporting, conducts self-inspections, supports government audits, and resolves corrective actions while maintaining compliance with NSA, DoD, CNSSI, NISPOM, and related regulations.

Lead cross-functional governance, risk, and compliance programs involving CMMC and DoD RMF IL5/IL6. Manage timelines, resources, milestones, KPIs, dashboards, audit readiness, evidence collection, stakeholder alignment, and remediation planning across security, IT, legal, engineering, consultants, executives, and external assessors.

Own third-party vendor risk and cyber supply chain risk programs, including assessments, supplier and component inventories, risk scoring, remediation tracking, C-SCRM controls, and executive reporting. Support enterprise risk management, FAIR-based risk quantification, audit readiness, GRC documentation, and compliance with NIST, CMMC, DFARS, and DoD requirements. Collaborate with procurement, engineering, security, legal, supply chain, and compliance teams in a regulated aerospace and defense environment.

Supports systems development across the product lifecycle by decomposing and managing requirements, developing architectures, creating technical artifacts, tracking performance and risks, and supporting integration, verification, and milestone reviews. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure compliant, cohesive system solutions while following engineering processes and communicating with stakeholders.

Conduct thermal analysis and support thermal-system development for aerospace vehicles. Perform vehicle-level analysis, system design, first-order analysis, and apply aerospace principles and standards. Prepare technical data, reports, and presentations; collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams; participate in technical reviews and problem-solving; and communicate technical findings to engineers and stakeholders under general supervision.

Leads mechanical systems engineering for satellite programs, including architecture, requirements, interface control, integration, verification, testing, mass properties, nonconformance resolution, and flight hardware support. Coordinates structural, thermal, mechanism, and propulsion subsystem integration while advising technical leadership on system-level risks. Drives mechanical design from concept through production and flight test, supports manufacturing and operations, and improves engineering workflows and digital engineering practices.

Designs and evaluates human interaction with complex aerospace and space mission systems. Responsibilities include defining human engineering requirements, applying human performance principles, conducting user research and prototype testing, performing workload and usability assessments, and integrating human factors across interdisciplinary engineering teams. The role requires knowledge of military standards, human systems integration, interface design, and systems engineering. It is fully onsite, requires occasional travel, and requires eligibility for a U.S. Top Secret/SCI clearance and special program access.

Lead systems engineering for space battle management, command and control programs. Responsibilities include defining requirements and interfaces, developing concepts of operations, analyzing system behavior, conducting trade studies, supporting agile software product lifecycles, and coordinating across software, hardware, cybersecurity, infrastructure, networking, and mission engineering teams. The role interfaces with customers and industry partners and requires an active Top Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and up to 10% travel.

Leads systems engineering for airborne augmented reality training systems across the full product lifecycle. Responsibilities include requirements development and traceability, system architecture, interface management, MBSE, trade studies, resource allocation, design reviews, integration, verification, technical risk management, and coordination across hardware, software, optics, test, airworthiness, and external partner teams.

Manages EPDS cost accounts and project engineering activities, with primary responsibility for procurements, programmatics, supplier relationships, hardware definitions, interfaces, technical documentation, presentations, and subcontract management. The role requires engineering expertise in spacecraft-related hardware, planning, scheduling, specifications, and interface control, while coordinating multidisciplinary teams and supporting potential earned value management activities.

Provides senior-level RF and electromagnetics mentorship, develops advanced training content, advises engineers on complex antenna and microwave problems, and contributes to research involving metamaterials, metasurfaces, radar, nonlinear RF systems, and space-time modulated structures.

Supports physical and chemical laboratory testing, materials analysis, SEM inspections, failure investigations, and root-cause analysis for aerospace applications. Performs sample preparation, microscopy, thermal and mechanical testing, equipment maintenance, validation studies, technical reporting, and PWB inspections. Works with chemicals, cryogenics, adhesives, and laboratory instrumentation across cleanroom and production environments. Requires on-site work, local campus travel, vehicle operation, and potential security-clearance eligibility.

Own production operations for workplace AI platforms, including configuration, integrations, observability, secrets, access controls, model and prompt changes, benchmarking, and incident response. Translate technical findings into governance, risk, compliance, and training materials while collaborating with Security, Legal, HR, and business stakeholders. Investigate failures, implement mitigations, document root causes, and maintain reliable, secure AI services.