Top Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Design, build, and operate the Linux-based edge appliance runtime and distributed control plane. Implement secure networking dataplanes (IPsec, MASQUE, eBPF), reliable fleet control and remote lifecycle management, telemetry and diagnostics, and drive product-focused technical leadership from architecture through rollout and incident response.

Leads systems engineering for complex spacecraft and mission systems across the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include requirements derivation and traceability, system architecture, concept of operations, integration, verification and validation, milestone reviews, technical risk mitigation, performance tracking, and configuration management. The role coordinates cross-functional engineering teams, ensures compliance with technical processes, mentors engineers, and communicates system objectives and progress to stakeholders.

Leads systems engineering for satellite ground systems supporting a missile defense program. Responsibilities include requirements decomposition and traceability, architecture development, concept of operations, system integration, verification and validation, technical risk management, milestone reviews, and stakeholder coordination. The role focuses on command and control, mission operations, data processing, and communications infrastructure interfacing with space segments, while mentoring engineers and delivering under compressed timelines.

Support Dream Chaser flight operations through mission planning, trajectory design, mission analysis, ground-based navigation, and real-time mission control. Perform orbital mechanics and statistical orbit determination, guide navigation trades, develop and validate flight dynamics tools, and collaborate across engineering and flight control disciplines. Complete certification training and provide mission support from the Louisville Mission Control Center, including shiftwork during operations.

Own systems engineering for in-space spacecraft propulsion from concept through production. Develop and maintain requirements, coordinate verification and validation, support qualification and acceptance testing, participate in design and program reviews, assess reliability and risks, ensure range safety compliance, and mentor systems engineering associates.

Leads satellite mission operations across launch, commissioning, on-orbit testing, sustainment, and anomaly support. Develops and validates operations products, coordinates rehearsals and test events, monitors spacecraft health, integrates ground-system capabilities, and provides technical leadership and mentoring. Requires extensive mission operations experience, systems engineering knowledge, and an active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI. The role is fully on-site and may involve travel between facilities.

Leads satellite mission operations across launch, commissioning, on-orbit testing, sustainment, anomaly support, and mission lifecycle activities. Develops and validates operational products, coordinates rehearsals and test events, assesses spacecraft and ground-system health, and provides technical leadership, mentoring, customer presentations, and mission operations direction. The role requires extensive mission operations experience, systems engineering expertise, and an active Top Secret clearance with TS/SCI eligibility.

Leads technical presales efforts for HPE Networking solutions supporting Federal Systems Integrators and government customers. Designs enterprise, campus, data center, routing, WAN, security, Zero Trust, and network access architectures. Partners with account and partner teams to pursue strategic opportunities, creates proposals and RFP responses, delivers presentations, demos, workshops, and proofs of concept, and supports partner enablement. Requires U.S. citizenship, 7+ years of networking presales or architecture experience, and 40% travel.

Leads the design, analysis, testing, and integration of spacecraft electrical power systems, including solar arrays, batteries, power distribution, converters, protection, and power budgets. Owns architecture trades, modeling, design reviews, radiation and reliability analyses, validation campaigns, EGSE, and environmental testing. Collaborates across engineering teams, develops technical documentation, mentors engineers, and ensures high-reliability power systems meet mission requirements.

Leads sensor, optical systems, materials science, and nonlinear optics efforts across R&D and production programs. Responsibilities include GmAPD detector calibration and testing, optical coating and radiation-hardening development, sensor concept development, materials analysis, prototyping, technical roadmaps, proposal support, customer interaction, and technical leadership. The role requires collaboration across engineering and business organizations and work in office, laboratory, production, and cleanroom environments.

Own systems engineering for a major area of Blue Origin’s Lunar Human Landing System, including requirements, system safety, verification and validation, certification, anomaly investigations, and technical risk disposition. Lead architecture-related requirements decisions, develop tool-driven engineering processes, interface with internal teams and customers, review technical deliverables, mentor engineers, and set technical direction.

Supports Lunar Human Landing System development through systems engineering and engineering operations. Develops requirements, safety, verification, and validation baselines; coordinates cross-functional technical needs; plans major reviews and milestones; investigates anomalies; improves operational processes; and tracks technical progress, risks, decisions, and deliverables using tool-driven workflows.

Provides advanced systems engineering for NETGEAR ProAV customers across the North Central U.S. Responsibilities include customer onboarding, technical training, AV-over-IP solution design, field troubleshooting, commissioning, pre-sales support, system demonstrations, automation tool development, documentation, and industry presentations. The role requires expertise in multicast networking, timing protocols, AV technologies, multi-vendor integrations, and complex deployments, with travel of up to 60%.

Designs, administers, secures, and modernizes hybrid infrastructure across Windows Server, identity platforms, VMware, AWS, and endpoint systems. Serves as a senior escalation point for complex incidents, leads major incident response and root-cause remediation, and drives automation, compliance, vulnerability management, and operational standardization. The role also supports infrastructure architecture, audit remediation, documentation, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring while participating in an on-call rotation.

Provides advanced production support for Ellucian Banner and connected enterprise applications. Troubleshoots complex application, database, integration, and data issues; maintains APIs, web services, middleware, and database interfaces; monitors system performance and data flows; supports upgrades and implementations; documents systems and procedures; coordinates with technical teams, vendors, and stakeholders; participates in incident and change management; automates processes; mentors IT staff; and contributes to scalable system architecture.

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.

Develops and delivers high-fidelity threat missile models and missile defense software for the Missile Defense Agency. Collaborates with customers, intelligence analysts, threat stakeholders, and engineers to capture requirements and produce accurate threat models. Responsibilities include systems engineering, requirements traceability, MBSE, modeling and simulation, automation, missile flight and performance analysis, atmospheric dynamics, and infrared and radar-cross-section signature modeling. The role is fully onsite at Schriever Space Force Base.

Lead architecture and requirements for closed-loop motion control systems for space applications. Drive technical risk resolution, develop and execute V&V plans, present to customers, and collaborate with manufacturing, quality, and test teams to ensure flight-ready hardware and program success.

Design and develop VLEO spacecraft systems across the mission lifecycle. Responsibilities include system architecture, requirements, interface management, technical trade studies, performance budgeting, subsystem integration, verification, environmental testing, troubleshooting, and maintaining requirements traceability. The role collaborates with engineering teams, customers, payload providers, and vendors while addressing VLEO challenges such as atmospheric drag, atomic oxygen exposure, and precision pointing. The engineer will also help scale systems engineering processes and execution.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, and sustains satellite ground and mission control systems throughout the program lifecycle. Leads requirements definition, system interfaces, integration plans, verification activities, customer collaboration, proposal support, and on-orbit operations. The role supports mission control hardware and software at factory and customer sites, including government-furnished infrastructure and cloud-based applications.

Lead and contribute to the design, integration, deployment, and sustainment of mission-focused systems. Translate stakeholder needs into technical requirements, architectures, interface definitions, deployment patterns, and operational processes. Partner with software engineers and data scientists to integrate applications, data pipelines, infrastructure, and external systems. Support testing, verification, troubleshooting, operational readiness, documentation, and reliability improvements for secure, scalable, data-intensive systems.

Leads spacecraft fault management and system autonomy architecture, requirements, safety analyses, verification, validation, and testing. Develops fault-tolerant and autonomous system designs across the aerospace lifecycle, performs FMECA, FTA, FHA, PRA, and reliability analyses, and mentors engineers. Collaborates across programs to establish best practices and common architectures for national security spacecraft missions.

Lead the design, development, qualification, procurement, testing, and production support of ordnance components for solid rocket motors. Responsibilities include designing ignition, safe-and-arm, separation, and termination systems; managing technical supplier interfaces; authoring specifications and test documentation; overseeing environmental and energetic testing; investigating failures; performing risk analyses; and collaborating across systems engineering, safety, quality, and integration teams.

Supports mission-level integration and testing for space and defense systems, including test planning, procedures, reports, interface control documents, simulator requirements, requirements traceability, launch rehearsals, and post-launch anomaly or software update testing. Coordinates across integrated product teams to ensure system compatibility, network interfaces, equipment, resources, deployment, and configuration. The role requires on-site work, active Top Secret/SCI clearance, and collaboration across mission, spacecraft, ground, payload, and operations systems.

Supports mission-level integration and testing for spacecraft, ground, payload, and mission systems. Develops test plans, procedures, reports, interface control documents, requirements traceability, simulator requirements, CONOPS, and launch rehearsal activities. Coordinates cross-functional teams, system interfaces, resources, configurations, and post-launch testing. Requires engineering expertise, active Top Secret/SCI clearance, and on-site work five days per week.