Top Principal Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

The manager will lead the NVMQRA team, ensuring product quality and reliability of non-volatile memory products through testing, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Lead mission architecture and high-level ground system designs for satellite and mission operations. Translate customer objectives into executable architectures, manage technical baselines, run design reviews and trade studies, mentor engineers, and support proposals, customer engagements, and product strategy.

Lead customer validation strategy and execution for major hyperscaler/OEM customers. Define test depth, acceptance criteria, and mitigation plans. Oversee qualification planning, readiness reviews, and customer closure decisions. Align customer requirements with internal validation, firmware, hardware, and system teams. Provide technical leadership for complex multi-domain validation, debug, and risk assessment to ensure qualification success and customer confidence.

As a Principal Flight Software Engineer, you will lead the architecture and development of flight software for space missions, ensuring safety and reliability while collaborating on technical decisions and standards.

Oversee development of spacecraft GNC systems, from architecture to flight operations, design algorithms, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead long-term technical strategy and execution across multiple teams, architecting and evolving foundational frontend/backend systems and platforms at massive scale. Drive AI/ML adoption, solve ambiguous, high-impact problems, remain hands-on in critical system design and implementation, and align senior leaders on roadmaps and engineering standards.

Lead and drive multidisciplinary systems development, architect integrated system solutions, manage requirements and traceability, oversee integration, verification, and validation, identify and mitigate technical risks, define system concepts of operation, lead milestone reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute to corporate systems engineering policy and process improvements.

Lead hands-on design, simulation, testing, and documentation of RF passive and active circuits (VHF–20 GHz) for phased arrays and RF subsystems. Mentor junior staff, coordinate measurements and testing, use AWR/ADS/SystemVue/MATLAB, and guide designs toward producibility and production readiness while interfacing with customers and teams.

The Principal Mechanical Engineer leads design and analysis projects while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to innovate and drive project success in aerospace engineering.

Lead systems engineering for advanced EO/IR systems, ensuring alignment with mission needs, overseeing integration, validation and guiding technical reviews.

Lead system architecture and mission concept development across program lifecycles. Perform trade studies, MBSE, CONOPS, modeling and simulation, and support capture and proposal activities. Guide and mentor small teams, develop customer relationships, contribute to IRAD and technology concepts, and present technical analyses to stakeholders.

Lead systems engineering for satellite ground systems: design, requirements decomposition, architecture, integration, verification/validation, interface control, test support, trade studies, and customer reviews. Provide technical leadership, mentor junior staff, and support program milestones and operations readiness.

Lead systems architecture and mission concept development across program lifecycles. Perform trade studies, MBSE, CONOPS, and analysis; support capture and proposals; mentor teams; engage customers; and contribute to IRAD and technology development for space and aircraft systems.

Lead systems engineering for space mission-level programs: define CONOPS, lead design trade studies, manage technical risk/mitigation, lead reviews and integration, mentor engineers, coordinate with program management, and present to customers and leadership.

Lead systems engineering for satellite ground systems: design, requirements decomposition, interface control, integration, testing, trade studies, and program review support while mentoring teams and supporting SRR/PDR/CDR gates.

Lead systems engineering for design, integration, verification, and operation of satellite ground systems. Perform requirements decomposition, interface/ICD development, trade studies, testing support, and prepare engineering artifacts for program reviews. Provide technical leadership, customer engagement, and guidance to junior staff while supporting security and program milestones and continuous integration/DevSecOps practices.

Lead systems engineering for space missions at segment/mission level: drive CONOPS, trade studies, technical risk mitigation, reviews, and mentor teams through design, integration, test, and on-orbit operations. Interface with program management and present to customers and leadership.

Lead design and maintenance of a shared Roku platform using BrightScript and SceneGraph. Address media playback, DRM, performance optimization on low-memory devices, map OTT modules to BrightScript, design scene/route and thread-safe task models, integrate linting/static analysis and device benchmarking, and establish automated testing and AI-assisted development pipelines to meet launch time and memory targets.

Lead architecture and roadmap for a production-scale enterprise Android application focused on media playback, observability, CI/CD, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. Drive playback performance, DRM and adaptive streaming reliability, establish telemetry and automated testing standards, and provide technical leadership across product, backend, and partner teams to ensure scalability and operational reliability across device fleets.

Lead platform engineering and architecture for cloud, on-prem, and manufacturing environments. Implement IaC and GitOps (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), DR/HA, telemetry (Prometheus, Grafana), DevSecOps integrations, and automated AI model pipelines. Mentor engineers, author technical designs, and align software, IT, networking, and security to enable reliable, compliant mission-critical deployments.

Perform structural analysis for spacecraft using various techniques, develop loads and environments, and support testing. Maintain effective working relationships within teams.

Perform structural analysis on various spacecraft components using analysis techniques, develop loads, support testing, and write reports while maintaining collaboration with the team.

Perform structural analysis on various aerospace components, including spacecraft and ground support equipment. Use finite element analysis techniques, develop loads, support testing, and write detailed reports.

The role involves supervising spacecraft and payload operations, conducting performance analysis, developing mission operation products, and providing technical leadership in a collaborative environment.

Lead spacecraft mechanical design efforts, manage teams, define requirements, and mentor junior engineers while coordinating with various subsystems and clients.