Top Aerospace Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Designs, develops, tests, and documents software for space systems and flight technologies. Responsibilities include writing maintainable code, using Git for version control, participating in code reviews, troubleshooting software issues, collaborating with senior engineers, and following software development best practices. The role also requires continuous learning about software and space technology advancements and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Leads manufacturing process optimization, quality control, maintenance planning, reliability improvement, and cross-functional engineering projects for aerospace and space products. Analyzes equipment performance, implements manufacturing plans and validation processes, mentors junior staff, and supports advanced manufacturing technologies, automation, and production system implementation. Requires aerospace manufacturing expertise, CAD proficiency, and the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.

Leads medium-sized aerospace engineering projects and cross-functional teams, integrating technical solutions while managing cost, schedule, risk, quality, suppliers, and stakeholder communication. Conducts trade studies, technical evaluations, estimates, and design reviews; mentors engineers; supports program management; reports project metrics; and drives innovation and continuous improvement across the engineering lifecycle.

Supports three executives by managing calendars, travel, communications, expenses, confidential information, and administrative workflows. The role improves operational efficiency, coordinates executive communication with employees, uses generative AI for drafting and meeting summaries, and partners with IT and Facilities to resolve office and systems issues.

Leads transactional corporate real estate projects across a global portfolio of approximately 200 sites. Responsibilities include developing project plans, coordinating resources, tracking budgets and invoices, preparing executive reports, communicating with stakeholders, and managing vendor performance. The role requires real estate project management knowledge, financial and portfolio coordination skills, strong presentation abilities, and proficiency with office, real estate database, and project management tools.

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.

Manages engineering projects supporting space vehicles and ground systems, with responsibilities spanning cost account management, project planning, budgeting, scheduling, resource allocation, risk mitigation, requirements coordination, compliance, and customer presentations. Leads software development teams in Agile environments, manages Earned Value metrics and proposal content, and supports systems engineering, testing, security, integration, and mission-related milestones.

Manages complex space vehicle and ground-system engineering projects, including scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, cost accounts, earned value, and customer requirements. Leads engineering teams in Agile software development programs, supports technical and security milestones, prepares proposals and presentations, and ensures quality, compliance, and on-time delivery. The role is primarily project management with supporting technical responsibilities in systems engineering, integration, testing, and mission or ground-system development.

Manages complex aerospace and ground-systems engineering projects, including scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, cost accounts, earned value, and customer requirements. Leads software development teams in Agile environments, supports systems engineering and test milestones, prepares proposals and presentations, and ensures quality, compliance, and on-time delivery. The role requires collaboration across engineering disciplines and may support mission integration, launch activities, and ground-system development.

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.

Leads the enterprise real estate and capital project portfolio, including lease administration, capital planning, budgeting, project governance, and complex project delivery. Develops executive recommendations on cost, risk, timing, and priorities; coordinates with Finance, Legal, Procurement, IT, Security, HR, vendors, landlords, and consultants; manages project managers; and implements portfolio management standards and systems.

Leads software systems engineering for SATCOM mission planning supporting military NC3 networks. Responsibilities include requirements, architecture, API and backend development, user interface implementation, integration, testing, deployment, code reviews, security, performance improvements, mentoring, and Agile DevSecOps delivery. The role requires onsite work in Colorado Springs, active U.S. Secret clearance, U.S. Person status, and up to 10% travel.

Supports employee learning and development programs, including training content, compliance training, manager development, scheduling, facilitation, records, and effectiveness evaluation. Owns operational coordination of new-hire onboarding from pre-boarding through the first day, partnering with People Operations, hiring managers, IT, Security, Facilities, and presenters. Tracks readiness, manages communications and logistics, supports HRIS activities, identifies process gaps, and recommends improvements to onboarding and learning experiences.

Leads systems engineering execution for satellite command-and-control ground systems supporting national defense missions. Owns requirements, verification and validation, system architecture, space-to-ground interfaces, integration, testing, operational readiness, risk mitigation, and sustainment. Coordinates cross-functional teams, mission operations, government stakeholders, and technical review boards while applying MBSE and requirements management processes. The role requires extensive lifecycle leadership of classified aerospace ground systems and eligibility for DoD TS/SCI or TS/SAP clearance.

Leads the optics department and owns the optical performance roadmap for current and future augmented reality systems. Responsibilities include team growth, optical architecture reviews, trade studies, metrology standards, design governance, supplier escalation, program execution, production transition, customer integration, and cross-functional alignment. The role establishes scalable processes, manages optical risks, supports defense and government programs, and partners with the Principal Optical Engineer to balance organizational leadership with technical execution.