Top Systems Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Analyze, model, and optimize mission performance across space, air, and ground architectures. Develop predictive algorithms and simulation tools, conduct trade-off and sensitivity analyses, derive subsystem requirements, establish performance metrics, and communicate technical findings to leadership and customers. Mentor junior engineers and support technical proposals and business strategy. The role requires on-site work five days per week, collaboration across teams, and an active TS/SCI clearance.

Develop tools and algorithms to model, simulate, and analyze mission-system architectures across space, air, and ground domains. Translate complex performance analyses into technical reports, requirements insights, and recommendations for internal and external stakeholders. Support project milestones, proposals, cost and schedule estimation, and customer presentations while collaborating across engineering and business teams. The role is fully on-site and requires an active TS/SCI clearance.

Build and scale customer-facing Analytics and Alerts APIs and near real-time alerting platform. Optimize analytical queries, collaborate with frontend/product teams, ensure reliability and run on-call for operational health.

Design, build, and operate a scalable logging and audit-log delivery platform. Develop high-performance connectors and integrations, ensure secure, compliant delivery to customer destinations, optimize pipeline throughput and latency, maintain operational health and monitoring, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate on architecture and product requirements across teams.

Build, scale, and maintain a high-performance analytical database platform (ClickHouse) for real-time analytics. Develop platform components, add clusters, optimize query performance and ingestion, troubleshoot reliability issues, collaborate across teams and with the ClickHouse open-source community, and research next-generation database engine improvements.

Build and maintain high-throughput, low-latency distributed data systems across ingestion, storage, and retrieval. Optimize delivery pipelines, scale analytical database clusters (ClickHouse), develop GraphQL and log delivery solutions, monitor performance with observability tooling, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate cross-functionally and with open-source communities to evolve the data platform.

Design, develop, and test complex software systems for space and ground systems. Write maintainable code, use version control, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot issues, document configurations, and provide technical leadership and mentorship. Make high-level design decisions impacting cost, schedule, and performance while staying current with industry trends.

Serves as technical authority for a product or major evolution, defining architecture and technical direction across multiple engineering teams. Leads architecture reviews, trade studies, system decomposition, interface definition, integration planning, release sequencing, risk management, and technical decision-making. Partners with Product Management to validate customer needs, guides products through integration and deployment, resolves cross-team conflicts, establishes engineering practices, and mentors technical leaders. Applies AI-assisted development and systems engineering practices to improve architecture, risk identification, and delivery quality.

Serves as product-level technical authority across multiple engineering teams. Defines architecture, system decomposition, interfaces, integration strategy, release sequencing, and technical direction. Leads architecture reviews, trade studies, risk management, cross-team dependency resolution, and operational readiness from concept through customer deployment. Partners with Product Management to validate customer needs, mentors senior engineers, and establishes engineering practices that improve quality, consistency, and delivery. Applies AI-assisted development approaches to strengthen systems analysis and technical decision-making.

Leads the definition and delivery of complex software solutions by translating business needs into technical requirements, system designs, and target-state architectures. Partners with product, business, architecture, and engineering teams; identifies dependencies, risks, and architectural impacts; and ensures solutions meet security, scalability, maintainability, and enterprise architecture standards. Provides technical direction throughout solution definition and documents requirements, interfaces, use cases, architectures, and test plans for Agile development teams.

Manage and troubleshoot IT systems including OS installation/configuration, network configurations, virtualization, automation scripting, backup/recovery design, user and resource administration, Active Directory and Group Policy management, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support IT projects and improve infrastructure reliability.

Design, build, monitor, and maintain large-scale Linux infrastructure supporting distributed S3-compatible object storage across multi-cloud environments. Responsibilities include kernel and storage optimization, network and hardware troubleshooting, automation with Chef or Ansible, observability, forecasting capacity, technical leadership, project coordination, mentoring, documentation, and on-call support.

Lead development and maintenance of the Cameo MBSE system model and SysML diagrams. Decompose system requirements to software/subcomponent levels, maintain traceability and verification matrices, and ensure model configuration and validation. Drive functional decomposition, behavioral modeling, and interface/data flow documentation. Collaborate across teams, support mission concept development and full program lifecycle execution, and present technical results to senior stakeholders.

Lead architecture, development, and validation of end-to-end aircraft fuel systems. Drive cross-functional integration, system-level modeling (CFD), verification, supplier qualification, ground and flight test support, anomaly root-cause analysis, and mentor engineering teams while contributing to long-term fuel-system technology roadmaps.

Provide systems engineering and enterprise architecture support to USG customers: capture architectures, requirements, system design, and test approaches; analyze As-Is/To-Be workflows; recommend transitions; develop repeatable processes; create Enterprise Architecture artifacts; and support engineering review boards.

Support mission operations preparation, launch, commissioning, and early operations by developing and validating operations products, rehearsing and executing tests, coordinating SMEs, supporting verification/validation, and preparing technical briefings. Work on-site full time and collaborate across engineering and business teams to ensure operational readiness.

Provide systems engineering and enterprise architecture support to USG customers. Capture architecture, requirements, system design, and test approaches. Analyze As-Is workflows, design To-Be states, recommend transitions, develop repeatable processes, support Enterprise Architecture artifacts, and participate in engineering review boards.

Support mission planning, training, and real-time Dream Chaser flight operations; develop operations products (procedures, flight rules, timelines, telemetry displays), training materials, and integrate design inputs with operational concepts while working with multidisciplinary teams in a mission control environment.

Provide systems engineering and enterprise architecture support to USG customers: capture requirements, architecture, system design, test approaches; analyze As-Is vs To-Be workflows; recommend transition plans; develop repeatable processes, Enterprise Architecture artifacts, and support engineering review boards.

Provide systems engineering and enterprise architecture support to U.S. government customers, capturing requirements, system design, and test approaches. Document As-Is and To-Be architectures, recommend transition plans, develop repeatable processes, produce enterprise architecture artifacts, and support engineering review boards. Work within Agile/SCRUM environments and support deployment and maintenance of development, test, and operational environments.

Maintains and improves large-scale production systems across bare-metal servers, virtual machines, and container platforms. Responsibilities include Linux administration, architecture recommendations, hardware troubleshooting, production deployments, scripting and automation, monitoring, CI/CD, configuration management, technical documentation, and on-call support. The role collaborates with distributed cross-functional teams, uses AI to improve workflows, and requires periodic business travel and government-related background and fingerprint checks.

Lead Salesforce and billing platform engineering with an emphasis on AI-driven automation. Build scalable Salesforce solutions (Apex, Flow, LWC), pilot LLM/agent workflows, modernize CI/CD and test automation, support Quote-to-Cash and billing processes, collaborate across product and finance, drive technical debt reduction, and mentor junior engineers.

Own and engineer Arcadia's go-to-market technology stack (Salesforce, Planhat, RocketLane), building integrations, automations, and AI agents. Lead platform overhaul, data quality, reporting, deployments, documentation, user enablement, and cross-team partnership to scale Sales, Marketing, and Customer Operations.

Supports aerospace propulsion system development through requirements definition, verification and qualification planning, risk management, traceability, and MBSE modeling. The role develops system-level plans for solid rocket motors, tracks compliance, reviews test and analysis documentation, integrates engineering models, manages systems engineering tools and processes, and communicates with internal teams, management, and customers. Secret clearance eligibility and U.S. person status are required.

Develops and integrates complex spacecraft and mission systems throughout the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include deriving and managing requirements, developing system architectures and concepts of operation, supporting milestone reviews, overseeing integration and verification, tracking technical performance, managing risks, and coordinating cross-functional engineering teams. The role may lead small systems engineering teams and requires compliance with established engineering processes and standards.