Top Aerospace Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Owns end-to-end execution and integration of a complex satellite constellation across spacecraft, ground systems, communications, suppliers, launch, deployment, commissioning, and mission operations. Manages cost, schedule, technical performance, dependencies, risks, resources, suppliers, and operational readiness for $100M+ efforts. Establishes integrated plans, drives critical-path execution, resolves blockers, develops recovery strategies, and communicates decision-ready assessments to executives and cross-functional stakeholders.

Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, requirements, and customer value proposition for Vantor’s Operational World Model. Prioritize mission-relevant use cases, define MVP capabilities, align product and engineering teams, and guide delivery across geospatial data, simulation, sensor modeling, and real-time operational services. The role also supports customer demonstrations, proposals, partner engagement, product positioning, and adoption while coordinating stakeholders across product areas, engineering, GTM, government, and industry.

Leads safety, reliability, mission assurance, and risk management for aerospace propulsion systems. Develops safety requirements, performs failure and reliability assessments, manages risk registers, supports hazard classification and flight-test safety planning, leads failure investigations, and coordinates with DoD Weapon Safety Review Boards. Collaborates across systems engineering, design, manufacturing, testing, mission operations, and program teams to ensure safe product lifecycle execution and regulatory approval.

Leads enterprise applications strategy, transformation, delivery, and optimization across SAP S/4HANA, Siemens Teamcenter/NX, and MES platforms. Integrates ERP, PLM, and manufacturing systems across engineering, supply chain, production, and finance while ensuring cybersecurity and defense compliance. Oversees enterprise architecture, modernization, budgets, vendors, and large multidisciplinary teams. Drives standardization, data continuity, operational performance, and organizational change in a regulated aerospace and defense environment.

Lead design and development of complex electrical harnesses and avionics systems (Harness 3D), perform tests and simulations, troubleshoot and improve existing systems, document designs and test results, mentor junior engineers, act as technical lead on specialized projects, and support systems integration, V&V, trade studies, and program CAM activities.

Leads and mentors technical program managers delivering enterprise IT security and infrastructure programs. Establishes governance, executive reporting, risk mitigation, and accountability frameworks while managing budgets, scope, schedules, vendors, contracts, and cross-functional engineering dependencies. Aligns security, infrastructure, software engineering, vendors, and executives on roadmaps and delivery commitments. Drives adoption of AI-enabled automation for program monitoring, reporting, resource allocation, and operational decision-making.

Lead the enterprise information security architecture strategy, roadmap, standards, governance, and security-by-design practices across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments. Oversee threat modeling, zero-trust principles, security baselines, architecture escalations, vulnerability mitigation, vendor evaluations, compliance mapping, and strategic program delivery. Partner with engineering, product, network operations, and executive leadership while managing security architecture teams and translating complex risks into business impacts.

Design and deploy enterprise IAM and Zero Trust architectures, integrate AI-driven threat detection and automation, lead security intake for new initiatives, conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration testing, and establish metrics to measure and remediate security control effectiveness across corporate and vendor environments.

Develops and maintains software requirements, architectures, algorithms, APIs, backend services, and user interfaces for SATCOM mission-planning systems. Supports Agile and DevSecOps development across design, integration, testing, and deployment, including CI/CD automation, vulnerability scanning, code reviews, and performance optimization. The role works with space and ground systems, geospatial visualization, databases, Kubernetes, and modern front-end technologies. It requires active Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, full-time onsite work in Colorado Springs, and up to 10% travel.

Develop and maintain requirements, architecture, APIs, interfaces, and algorithms for SATCOM mission planning software. Support full software lifecycle in Agile/DevSecOps environments, build backend services, implement CI/CD pipelines, perform code reviews, and translate designs into modern front-end interfaces emphasizing automation, testing, security, and performance.

Leads DevSecOps software engineering for tactical enterprise systems, integrating security into development and operations. Designs and maintains automated CI/CD pipelines, performs software analysis and risk mitigation, leads code reviews, testing, verification, documentation, technology adoption, supplier management, and deployment activities. The role requires extensive Kubernetes, identity management, infrastructure-as-code, hybrid cloud, and IT architecture experience, along with an active U.S. Secret clearance and fully onsite work in Colorado Springs.

Serve as the strategic People Business Partner for Engineering leaders, advising on organizational design, talent planning, performance, employee relations, compensation, workforce strategy, and leadership development. Manage people programs, analyze engagement and workforce data, support change initiatives, and build development pathways for non-technical teams. The role requires independent judgment, strong credibility with operational leaders, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a high-growth aerospace and defense environment.

Partners with Finance, Legal, Business Development, and Mission Readiness leaders on organizational design, talent planning, performance management, employee relations, compensation, workforce strategy, and leadership development. Analyzes people data, supports change initiatives, develops career pathways, manages employee relations cases, and reinforces company culture across lean, high-growth teams.

Own and build the manufacturing finance function for spacecraft and payload production. Responsibilities include forecasting, cost structure development, overhead rates, capital planning, procurement governance, production cost tracking, supply chain partnership, pricing support, build-versus-buy analysis, and capacity planning. The role begins as an individual contributor and will grow into team leadership while partnering with manufacturing, operations, FP&A, program finance, and accounting.

Own day-to-day marketing execution with an emphasis on content and product storytelling. Translate complex technical concepts into credible content for technical, business, and executive audiences. Create blogs, thought leadership, customer stories, campaigns, emails, landing pages, social content, presentations, and webinar materials. Manage marketing channels, support industry events, coordinate communications, and use AI and automation thoughtfully to improve efficiency. The role requires independent project ownership and close collaboration with leaders, engineers, customers, and marketing partners.

Supports spacecraft fault management through system design, simulator testing, flight hardware testing, tool development, research, presentations, and technical documentation. Collaborates with systems engineers and spacecraft subsystem experts to understand mission architecture, identify vulnerabilities, and develop fault responses. Interns work on-site with mentorship and may work in laboratories, production areas, cleanrooms, or remote research environments.

Supports spacecraft fault-management design, testing, verification, validation, tool development, and systems engineering documentation. Interns collaborate with multidisciplinary spacecraft experts, develop knowledge of spacecraft architectures and subsystems, present findings, document technical approaches, and contribute to research and flight-hardware testing. Assignments may involve digital vehicle simulators, fault monitors and responses, scripting, and continuous improvement of engineering tools.

Participate in spacecraft fault management systems engineering projects, including designing fault monitors and responses, validating designs with digital vehicle simulators, testing flight hardware, and developing engineering tools. Interns will document approaches, present findings, collaborate with subsystem experts, and build knowledge of spacecraft architectures while supporting research, requirements, and continuous tool development.

Lead operational reliability and platform enablement for Databricks: build monitoring, CI/CD, deployment standards, compute and job policies, observability, runbooks, and governance to support secure, cost-aware, production data workloads across regulated environments. Mentor engineers and align platform with cloud/infrastructure and compliance requirements.

Build and operate a distributed telemetry data platform for ingest, processing, indexing, compression, storage, and query. Design APIs, horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, multi-environment deployments, customer data isolation, and high-performance systems supporting petabytes of data and millions of series. Engineers own projects from design through release and operations while solving complex distributed-systems challenges on a small founding team.