Top Aerospace Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Leads business capture for tactical defense solutions by identifying and qualifying opportunities, developing customer and industry relationships, shaping technical and market strategies, coordinating proposal activities, and supporting pricing, win themes, partnerships, and technology investments. The role requires expertise in defense acquisition, RF technologies, proposal leadership, stakeholder influence, and classified program environments. It is primarily on-site and requires an active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain Top Secret.

Leads development programs for antenna and electronics technologies supporting defense customers. Oversees program execution, budgets, schedules, requirements, risks, resources, subcontractors, customer relationships, proposals, compliance, and cross-functional teams. Communicates performance to senior leadership and customers while resolving issues and pursuing follow-on business. The role is fully on-site and may involve travel between company campuses and other locations.

Supports IT initiatives by gathering requirements, documenting business needs, coordinating projects, and helping deliver digital employee experience improvements. Assists with Microsoft 365 adoption, SharePoint modernization, Power Platform readiness, data analysis, reporting, DEX score reviews, and sentiment analysis. Collaborates with business and IT stakeholders while learning technology delivery practices in a regulated aerospace and defense environment.

Creates, reviews, edits, and delivers 3D geospatial solutions from aerial and satellite imagery using proprietary software. Performs high-volume quality control, ensures compliance with product specifications, maintains consistency, reviews peer work, provides feedback, and prioritizes multiple tasks in a geospatial production environment. The role also requires mentoring or training experience and developing expertise in 3D product specifications and workflows.

Leads full-cycle technical and corporate recruiting, primarily for software, product management, engineering, data, and infrastructure roles. Builds sourcing strategies and talent pipelines, partners with hiring managers and HRBPs, manages candidate communication and offers, and supports executive and specialized searches. Uses recruiting data to improve pipeline health, processes, assessment practices, and hiring outcomes. Provides flexible recruiting support across satellite operations, go-to-market, corporate, and international teams.

Leads electrical systems integration for spacecraft programs, including architecture, harnessing, power, RF and data interfaces, EICD management, electrical analysis, testing, verification, and nonconformance resolution. Coordinates with customers, suppliers, and engineering teams while supporting manufacturing, ground testing, and flight operations. Requires extensive systems engineering experience, spacecraft knowledge, and an active Secret clearance.

Lead systems engineering across the product lifecycle: derive, decompose, allocate, trace, and manage requirements; develop system architecture and concepts of operation; oversee integration, verification, and V&V; track technical performance and risks; produce milestone artifacts and lead cross-functional teams while mentoring engineers and improving processes.

Develops and integrates advanced spacecraft systems by managing requirements, architecture, system decomposition, traceability, integration, verification, and validation. Supports technical milestones, performance tracking, risk identification, and cohesive system delivery using Model Based Systems Engineering approaches. Requires an active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Defines and evolves software architectures for AR-based aerospace and mission systems. Leads architecture across embedded, real-time graphics, simulation, networking, cloud, edge, AI/ML, and aircraft integration. Establishes standards for secure, scalable, safety-critical software; supports DO-178 compliance, DevSecOps, CI/CD, containerization, and digital engineering. Collaborates with engineering, product, systems, and program teams on technical baselines, interfaces, verification, customer engagements, and proposals.

Leads enterprise risk management, legal compliance, data governance, AI legal compliance, and vendor regulatory oversight. The role modernizes ERM using AI and automation, conducts risk assessments aligned with DOJ guidance, governs data retention and privacy compliance under GDPR and CCPA/CPRA, manages AI-related legal risks, and standardizes vendor onboarding and compliance auditing. Requires executive-level communication, cross-functional leadership, and substantial in-house legal or law firm experience.

Leads enterprise data platform modernization and business intelligence initiatives, including cloud data warehouse transformation, AI-enabled workflow automation, data virtualization, governance, metadata, and lineage. Directs cross-functional teams using Agile methodologies, manages project budgets, tracks KPIs, and delivers scalable, secure data services. Requires extensive IT program management experience focused on data platforms and business intelligence, along with expertise in Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, data governance, and Jira.

Drives financial visibility through business case evaluation, pricing models, operational metrics, and financial forecasting. Builds financial models, analyzes historical performance, integrates enterprise data, and uses AI analytics tools to improve reporting. Partners cross-functionally with Accounting and Finance, develops strategic recommendations, and translates complex financial results into executive presentations supporting organizational decision-making.

Provide real-time on-orbit support and investigate/resolve GPS satellite anomalies. Train as a subsystem SME for satellite bus subsystems, interface with operations customers, perform telemetry trending and data analysis, write technical reports, and support spacecraft command processor and mission planning while improving processes and documentation.

Develops, integrates, tests, maintains, and supports Java-based software systems and mathematical algorithms for Boeing’s C2BMC missile defense applications. Responsibilities include software architecture, requirements decomposition, interface development, design documentation, coding, debugging, performance optimization, agile execution, integration and testing, operational support, and technical issue resolution. The role collaborates with systems engineering, integration and test teams, and industry partners while supporting full software lifecycle activities for ballistic missile defense systems.

Leads Shield AI’s Enterprise Data delivery organization, managing data engineering, analytics engineering, domain enablement, and governance teams. Translates enterprise data strategy into sequenced roadmaps, manages priorities, capacity, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations, and ensures production-ready, governed data products. Partners with architecture, platform engineering, security, and business leaders on technical tradeoffs, data quality, lineage, reliability, and investment priorities. Also owns hiring, coaching, performance development, delivery metrics, and continuous improvement of the data operating model.

Owns Shield AI’s website user experience and content journeys across key audience personas. Maintains and publishes WordPress content, builds digital experiences, improves navigation and conversion paths, and partners with agencies, designers, product marketers, communications, recruiting, and business stakeholders. Monitors web performance and user behavior while ensuring accessibility, SEO, brand, quality, and performance standards. Uses AI-enabled workflows and manages multiple web updates, launches, and stakeholder requests.

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.

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.

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.