Top Aerospace Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Lead financial strategy and modeling for programming renewals, manage end-to-end annual budgeting, oversee month-end close and variance analysis, coach financial analysts, drive automation using AI tools, and partner cross-functionally to provide strategic recommendations to executive leadership.

Design, build, and support Amazon Connect contact flows, serverless Java/Python microservices, and React agent workspaces. Integrate LLM-powered agent assistance (Bedrock/RAG), secure REST APIs, and implement monitoring and reliability for enterprise contact center solutions.

Leads enterprise AI enablement programs by coordinating engineering, product, legal, security, privacy, and business stakeholders. Manages AI initiative intake, prioritization, implementation playbooks, pilot deployments, compliance reviews, and executive reporting. Facilitates agile action teams, tracks complex workflows and risks, and maintains dashboards showing milestones, timelines, and mitigation strategies.

Leads propulsion development and test teams, owning technical roadmaps, requirements, design trades, test campaigns, facility planning, procurement, safety, regulatory compliance, and hardware commissioning. Manages engineers, schedules, budgets, risks, and cross-functional resolution of propulsion infrastructure and development issues. The role requires hands-on aerospace propulsion expertise, hypergolic and hazardous-fluid experience, and leadership of hot-fire, cold-flow, and pressure-testing programs.

Leads cybersecurity compliance and AI governance across NIST, CMMC, EAR, and ITAR frameworks. Maintains SSPs, POA&Ms, audit evidence, risk assessments, and compliance policies; evaluates AI vendors and use cases; embeds guardrails, access controls, data classification, logging, and review gates into LLM, MLOps, and DevSecOps workflows. Partners with engineering, security, legal, assessors, and government stakeholders to mature organizational compliance and responsible AI practices.

Serves as technical authority and team leader for space-based interceptor tooling and mechanical ground support equipment. Responsibilities include requirements, CAD design, fabrication, qualification, vendor management, safety and regulatory compliance, configuration control, root-cause investigations, budgets, schedules, and production support. Leads tooling engineers, chairs design reviews, and presents to program leadership, MDA offices, and government stakeholders. Designs fixtures, lifting devices, launch equipment, transportation containers, weldments, and integration tooling while ensuring compliance with defense and aerospace standards.

Lead space vehicle and spacecraft systems engineering through development, testing, delivery, integration, and on-orbit operations. Support the chief engineer, manage technical baselines, lead design and readiness reviews, guide architecture and trade studies, resolve risks and anomalies, and oversee system documentation and interfaces. The role also includes customer and partner engagement, proposal support, technical presentations, and coaching systems engineers.

Designs and tests RF antennas, phased arrays, RF circuits, passive components, frequency-selective surfaces, and RF systems. Uses electromagnetic simulation tools, MATLAB, and Python to analyze performance. Supports hardware testing, requirements assessments, trade studies, customer presentations, technical proposals, and tactical applications including electronic warfare, communications, geolocation, and direction finding. Works cross-functionally in an on-site laboratory and engineering environment.

Develop advanced RF algorithms, models, and architectures for complex systems, including RADAR and IFF applications. Lead requirements decomposition, systems engineering activities, verification and validation, lifecycle reviews, and software interface documentation. Collaborate with software, AI&T, and cross-functional subject matter experts to deliver RF sensing solutions. Mentor junior engineers, evaluate sensor technologies, support customer requirements and program reviews, and present technical findings to stakeholders.

Design, architect, develop, test, and oversee complex software systems for space technologies. Lead engineering teams, make high-level technical decisions, guide large-scale projects, troubleshoot distributed systems, and drive software strategy. Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, conduct code reviews, document systems, mentor engineers, and evaluate technologies, methodologies, automation, cloud platforms, databases, and secure development practices for classified environments.

Designs, develops, tests, and architects complex flight software for space systems. Responsibilities include writing maintainable code, collaborating on requirements, managing changes with version control, conducting code reviews, troubleshooting issues, documenting processes, and mentoring engineers. The role also provides technical leadership and contributes to innovative mission, spacecraft, and payload-control software solutions.

Develops cost estimates and pricing proposals for bids, contracts, and modifications. Collects and analyzes technical and programmatic data, prepares performance reports, collaborates cross-functionally, and presents findings to stakeholders. The role uses advanced Excel for analysis and supports accurate, competitive, and compliant pricing while maintaining awareness of government contracting regulations and cost accounting standards.

Build and maintain governed Silver/Gold data models and semantic assets on Databricks. Translate stakeholder KPIs into testable, reusable transformations, apply enterprise modeling standards, enable domain self-service, ensure data sensitivity and governance, and review domain-contributed models for production readiness.

Build AI applications, agents, integrations, and automated workflows that transform technical information into customer documentation. Partner with the Documentation team to use LLMs, agentic AI, and automation to improve content creation, maintenance, publishing, and delivery. Reduce manual effort, increase access to technical knowledge, and identify additional customer-facing workflows where AI can improve efficiency and experience.

Provide technical leadership for structural and/or thermal-fluids analysis of aerospace vehicles and propulsion systems. Perform FEA, fatigue, fracture, thermal-stress, CFD, and 1D fluid modeling; validate models against test data; support loads development, anomaly investigations, and nonconforming hardware disposition. Collaborate with design, systems, manufacturing, and test teams while improving analysis methods, mentoring engineers, and supporting safety-critical aerospace systems.

The Data Lead will manage and enhance data flows for defense products, ensuring trusted datasets for timely decision-making while explaining technical details clearly.

The Product Security Analyst at Boeing ensures program cybersecurity throughout lifecycle phases, implements RMF processes, evaluates security risks, and collaborates with technical teams.

Lead and scale Caliola's software organization for mission-critical communications. Establish engineering standards, improve delivery predictability, mature agile practices, mentor technical leads, support productization of DoD-funded solutions, and guide adoption of secure and AI-enabled engineering workflows while collaborating with program management, business development, product, and customers.