Top Aerospace Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Supports WGS ground satellite configuration and control modernization across the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include hardware baseline analysis, rack installation and deployment, requirements derivation and traceability, mission-thread management, cabling, parts ordering, infrastructure interfaces, system integration, sustainment, technical documentation, and risk management. The role is fully onsite in Colorado Springs and requires eligibility for a U.S. Top Secret/SCI clearance and U.S. person status.

Manages ground systems engineering teams supporting critical defense missions. Oversees engineering activities, technical approaches, project and process plans, resources, suppliers, schedules, budgets, process improvements, and customer relationships. Directly supervises employees, develops staff, coordinates daily operations, and ensures delivery of engineering products and processes. The role is fully onsite in Colorado Springs and requires an active U.S. Secret clearance, U.S. Person status, and 10% travel.

Systems Engineer supporting Boeing’s WGS GSCCE modernization program. Responsibilities include systems design, requirements analysis and traceability, software integration, verification and validation, simulation and modeling, test campaign development, technical documentation, risk management, and customer support across the product lifecycle. The role is fully onsite in Colorado Springs and requires U.S. citizenship, export-control compliance, and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Provides hands-on manufacturing engineering support for development products and processes. Responsibilities include improving design producibility, analyzing data, implementing corrective actions, supporting manufacturing schedules and readiness assessments, maintaining procedures and build instructions, managing tooling, and supporting quality-system compliance. The engineer collaborates with design, test, quality, supply chain, suppliers, program managers, and customers while using manufacturing, shop-floor control, and product-data systems.

Develop and maintain internal full-stack applications using C#/Blazor or Python. Build CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation with GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Artifactory, and SonarQube. Partner with cross-functional teams to improve software delivery, code quality, security, compliance, and operational visibility. Implement scalable enterprise solutions, infrastructure as code, secure development practices, and DevSecOps workflows.

Lead and scale a team of People Business Partners to act as trusted advisors to executives. Build operating models, run talent calibrations, develop managers, translate people data into recommendations, handle complex employee relations, and partner with Talent, Total Rewards, and People Ops to align people programs with business needs.

Lead finance partnership for aerospace and defense business lines, overseeing program finance, FP&A, EAC/ETC forecasting, EVM, long-range planning, pricing, contract economics, and capital planning. Build program-level reporting and financial systems, ensure GAAP/FAR/CAS compliance, and advise executive and engineering leadership. Recruit and lead a high-performing finance organization supporting propulsion program development, production ramp-up, and operational scale.

Build and deploy AI-native products that transform large-scale geospatial data into actionable intelligence. Design multi-agent workflows, integrate frontier LLMs, engineer tool-using agents, and develop data pipelines for anomaly detection and predictive analytics. Ensure secure, scalable cloud integrations and operate production AI systems using DevOps, containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD. Establish feedback and reinforcement mechanisms to improve model reliability while contributing to AI-first engineering standards and documentation.

Develop and maintain ticketing and provisioning applications for Customer Experience Operations. Responsibilities include designing APIs, optimizing routing and case management systems, extracting data from SQL Server and AWS Athena, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, documenting technical workflows, and identifying AI automation opportunities. The role requires collaboration with stakeholders and full-lifecycle application development experience.

Designs, implements, and maintains secure CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments, and infrastructure across on-premises, cloud, and air-gapped environments. Uses Terraform or Ansible, GitOps, containerization, observability, and security tooling to enable reliable software delivery. Responsibilities include designing and debugging complex development environments, improving engineering workflows, ensuring compliance, collaborating with development teams, and mentoring engineers.

Owns the end-to-end capture lifecycle for Department of Defense pursuits, including competitive assessments, win strategies, teaming, bid/no-bid decisions, customer engagement, proposal development, and post-award transition. The role coordinates engineering, contracts, finance, security, and proposal teams while shaping R&D and prototype opportunities into programs of record. It requires expertise in Shipley methodology, DoD acquisition pathways, training and simulation markets, and emerging AR/XR/LVC technologies.

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.