Top Systems Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

The role involves supporting spacecraft operations, maintenance, and testing. Responsibilities include performance analysis, telemetry trending, and collaborating on mission operations products.

Develop and integrate complex space system solutions: derive, decompose, allocate, trace, and manage requirements and architectures. Create CONOPS and milestone artifacts, support system integration, verification and validation, identify and mitigate technical risks, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliant, cohesive system deliveries.

Support flight planning, mission analysis, and real-time operations for Dream Chaser missions. Use FreeFlyer and MATLAB to design trajectories, produce timelines/procedures, integrate with engineering teams, complete training and simulations, and attain flight controller certification to provide MCC mission support.

Lead satellite bus procurement and vendor interactions; write and oversee SOWs and bus requirements; review ICDs, payload integration and test plans; evaluate vendor designs, analyses, and test reports; manage RFIs/RFPs; oversee subcontractor environmental testing and ensure satellite hardware/software meet LEO qualification and mission requirements.

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.

Senior technical owner of an existing NetSuite ERP: provide Tier 2/3 production support, triage and permanently resolve incidents, build and optimize SuiteScript 2.x and SuiteFlow customizations, maintain integrations (Deposco WMS, Salesforce via Jitterbit), manage SDF sandbox-to-production promotions, monitor performance, ensure release readiness, author runbooks, and operate under ITGC/SOX-adjacent change management with on-call responsibilities.

Manage full software development lifecycle for ad-sales infrastructure and inventory systems. Maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS, Databricks), optimize automated data pipelines, ensure file normalization/delivery, troubleshoot performance issues, administer ad-ops tools, and mentor junior developers while leading code reviews.

Provide real-time on-orbit support and investigate/resolve GPS satellite anomalies. Train as a subsystem SME for satellite bus subsystems, interface with operations customers, perform telemetry trending and data analysis, write technical reports, and support spacecraft command processor and mission planning while improving processes and documentation.

As a Model Based Systems Engineer, you'll architect, engineer, integrate, test, and deploy systems for the U.S. Space Force while leveraging MBSE tools and ensuring lifecycle management.

Develop, integrate, and sustain manufacturing execution system tools to support production. Perform requirement gathering, data analysis, and application development (C#/.NET, Blazor, SQL, LINQ). Collaborate with cross-functional teams, troubleshoot anomalies, and improve data visibility and operational efficiency. Work on-site in a manufacturing/test environment and follow Lean/Six Sigma practices.

Lead systems engineering across the product lifecycle: derive, decompose, allocate, trace, and manage requirements; develop system architecture and concepts of operation; oversee integration, verification, and V&V; track technical performance and risks; produce milestone artifacts and lead cross-functional teams while mentoring engineers and improving processes.

Lead systems engineering activities across the product lifecycle: derive, decompose, allocate, trace, and manage requirements; define system architecture and concepts of operations; support integration, verification, and milestone reviews; identify and mitigate technical risks; produce engineering artifacts; and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver compliant spacecraft system solutions.

Lead systems engineering for satellite and ground systems across the full lifecycle: define mission concepts and ConOps, capture and manage requirements and traceability, develop high-level architectures, drive integration, verification, and operations, and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to deliver resilient space systems.

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.

Support systems engineering foundations for satellite and ground systems: maintain requirements, models, design artifacts, and verification evidence; enforce processes and traceability; coordinate across disciplines; organize engineering baselines and documentation while learning MBSE and lifecycle practices.

Develop and maintain requirements, architecture, APIs, interfaces, and algorithms for SATCOM mission planning software. Support full software lifecycle in Agile/DevSecOps environments, build backend services, implement CI/CD pipelines, perform code reviews, and translate designs into modern front-end interfaces emphasizing automation, testing, security, and performance.

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

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.

Provide junior systems engineering support across program lifecycle for space missions: develop and verify requirements, manage interfaces and MBSE artifacts, support gate reviews (SRR/PDR/CDR/PSR), assist I&T and verification activities, prepare technical documentation and presentations, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.

Provide systems engineering support across the program lifecycle for space missions: develop, allocate, trace, and verify requirements; manage interfaces, MBSE models, I&T, gate reviews, technical documentation, and present results to stakeholders. Support SE processes, change control, and lifecycle execution while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

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 development and integration of Salesforce-centered GTM systems: build Apex/LWC solutions, design event-driven integrations, optimize data flows to Snowflake, manage CI/CD with Gearset/Git, write SQL for reporting and data quality, troubleshoot production, and mentor developers while advancing AI-enabled, composable CRM automation.

Provide systems engineering and enterprise architecture support to US government customers: capture requirements, system design, and test approaches; assess As-Is vs To-Be architectures and recommend transitions; develop repeatable architecture and engineering processes; produce enterprise architecture artifacts; support engineering review boards and Agile/Dev/Test/Operational environments.

Provide systems engineering and enterprise architecture support to USG customers: capture architecture and system requirements, design "To Be" states and transition plans, develop repeatable processes, produce enterprise architecture artifacts, support engineering review boards, and improve customers' engineering workflows and tools.

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.