Top Aerospace Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Responsible for requirements development, decomposition, allocation, verification, and validation for Boeing’s PTES program. Maintains the MBSE model, develops system architecture and engineering artifacts, creates verification procedures and reports, supports stakeholder engagement, resolves technical challenges, and produces requirements, design, and SEIT documentation. The role serves as the focal point for requirements management and may require travel to remote test locations.

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.

Designs, deploys, and maintains secure software development environments across on-premises, cloud, and air-gapped systems. Builds CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments, and infrastructure using Terraform or Ansible. Implements observability, security tooling, GitOps workflows, and containerized delivery processes. Collaborates with development teams to improve efficiency, reliability, compliance, and reproducibility. Responsibilities include coding, testing, debugging, monitoring, and maintaining DevSecOps environments.

Design, implement, and maintain secure software development environments, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments, and infrastructure across on-premises, cloud, and air-gapped environments. Build infrastructure with Terraform or Ansible, implement observability, integrate security throughout the development lifecycle, and improve reproducible software delivery. Collaborate with development teams, mentor engineers, troubleshoot complex systems, and support stringent compliance requirements.

Leads systems engineering activities across spacecraft missions, segments, elements, and subsystems. Develops, allocates, traces, verifies, and manages requirements throughout the program lifecycle using MBSE and requirements database tools. Supports architecture and interface development, gate reviews, integration and test coordination, risk management, customer presentations, and multidisciplinary team leadership. Mentors engineers and maintains requirements and verification artifacts for complex, high-reliability aerospace and defense systems.

Thermal Engineering Intern supporting thermal design and analysis of spacecraft, aerospace hardware, cryogenic systems, antennas, and tactical systems. Responsibilities include heat transfer and temperature calculations, thermal modeling, developing thermal loads, supporting environmental testing, reviewing engineering documentation, and preparing reports and presentations. The intern will collaborate in integrated product teams and contribute to meeting technical, cost, and schedule requirements in an on-site environment.

Provides systems engineering leadership for complex spacecraft and mission systems. Develops, allocates, traces, verifies, and manages requirements across mission segments, elements, and subsystems throughout the program lifecycle. Uses MBSE for architecture and interface traceability, supports technical reviews and integration and test activities, coordinates risk management, presents to customers and leadership, and mentors systems engineers.

Serves as in-house counsel for corporate finance, M&A, strategic investments, employee liquidity programs, equity administration, and commercial transactions. Leads financings and acquisitions from term sheet through closing, manages diligence and Board materials, advises on real estate and supplier agreements, and provides practical corporate guidance to executives and internal teams. The role also supports national security reviews, government contract diligence, and post-closing integration within a venture-backed defense technology company.

Own and mature the company’s intellectual property strategy across patents, trade secrets, software, data, trademarks, licensing, and open-source compliance. Manage IP portfolios, invention processes, agreements, employee IP obligations, and government data-rights matters. Advise technical and business teams on ownership, licensing, export controls, and risk. Support broader corporate legal work, including commercial contracts, transactions, financing, and legal-process improvements.

Designs and analyzes space missions, including rendezvous, proximity operations, and constellation performance. Builds simulation and modeling tools, conducts orbital mechanics and Monte Carlo analyses, optimizes spacecraft maneuvers, and supports system architecture decisions. Oversees mission-system integration, verification, testing, real-time mission support, and pre- and post-flight analyses. Collaborates with subsystem teams and stakeholders to assess performance, reliability, safety, risks, and mission success.

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.

Owns product delivery and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for commercial video services across enterprise, hospitality, multifamily, senior living, and public/private markets. The role manages UAT plans, roadmap execution, product quality, business metrics, market analysis, vendor relationships, and cross-functional go-to-market coordination. It also develops data-driven recommendations, uses AI tools to improve analysis and testing workflows, and drives successful product launches.

Own supplier performance for liquid propulsion systems, driving improvements in quality, cost, delivery, and capacity. Lead supplier development, audits, onboarding, corrective actions, non-conformance management, and supplier quality metrics. Provide technical support at supplier sites, review manufacturing processes, support DFM and NPI, and ensure compliance with aerospace quality standards including AS9102 and AS9100. Partner with engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and vendors to reduce risk and improve hardware reliability and manufacturability.

Designs and integrates aircraft mechanical systems and components, including installation layouts, subsystem routing, CAD assemblies, engineering drawings, BOMs, and product releases. Applies GD&T, tolerance analysis, and structural calculations while supporting prototype builds, production integration, and issue resolution. Collaborates with avionics, manufacturing, systems engineering, stress, quality, supply chain, and test teams to deliver manufacturable, maintainable, and reliable aerospace hardware.

Design and deploy production AI systems that transform large-scale geospatial data into actionable intelligence. Build end-to-end ML pipelines, multimodal and reasoning models, experimentation frameworks, synthetic datasets, and scalable inference systems. Collaborate with research, engineering, product, and domain teams while optimizing models for reliability, latency, and cost. Support monitoring, retraining, evaluation, and next-generation Earth AI capabilities.

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.