Top Systems Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

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.

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.

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.

The MBSE Core Capabilities Engineer supports Model-Based Systems Engineering by advancing tools and infrastructure, collaborating with teams, and improving adoption of MBSE methods.

The MBSE Core Capabilities Engineer leads Tools and Infrastructure for Model-Based Systems Engineering, providing expertise in tools and collaboration across sectors, while supporting MBSE adoption and organizational change management.

The MBSE Core Capabilities Engineer focuses on advancing tools and infrastructure for Model-Based Systems Engineering, requiring expertise in Cameo/MagicDraw and SysML.

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

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 engineering activities for satellite ground mission planning systems, including requirements analysis, architecture, interface design, system integration, verification, and formal testing. Develops and executes integration and test plans, procedures, and reports; leads technical reviews; resolves cross-functional issues; supports customer requirements and operational mission threads; and mentors engineering teams in an agile environment.

Designs, analyzes, qualifies, and documents solid rocket motor structures and propulsion components. Leads clean-sheet design, development campaigns, prototyping, testing, troubleshooting, requirements verification, and design reviews. Creates CAD models and drawings, manages design risks and schedules, supports production scalability and supply-chain planning, resolves hardware discrepancies, and mentors engineers. Requires expertise in solid propulsion, additive manufacturing, structural mechanics, and aerospace design, plus eligibility for a Secret clearance.

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.

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.

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.

Supports mission assurance for satellite operations across space and ground segments. Coordinates risk management, discrepancy resolution, design reviews, corrective actions, training, customer interface, and technical authority oversight. Contributes to nominal on-orbit operations and real-time anomaly resolution while translating complex engineering challenges into requirements and lessons learned. The role is fully onsite and requires occasional off-nominal hours during critical mission operations.

Supports aerospace quality engineering and process improvement initiatives through requirements development, metrics analysis, process documentation, quality assurance activities, anomaly and non-conformance investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and cross-functional program execution. The intern participates in technical meetings, briefings, process-change pilots, and broader program lifecycle quality duties in an on-site office, laboratory, production, or cleanroom environment.

Supports quality engineering, process improvement, program deliverables, performance metrics, quality assurance requirements, and anomaly, non-conformance, root-cause, and corrective-action processes. The intern will collaborate with cross-functional teams, participate in technical meetings, improve process documentation, pilot process changes, and work in office, laboratory, production, or cleanroom environments.

Supports aerospace quality engineering activities, including process improvement, requirements development, quality assurance, metrics, process documentation, anomaly and non-conformance resolution, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and technical briefings. The intern collaborates with cross-functional program teams and process owners, helps pilot process changes, and contributes to program deliverables in office, laboratory, production, or cleanroom environments.

Lead a technical team designing, deploying, and managing enterprise Red Hat OpenShift environments across virtual, bare-metal, hybrid, multi-tenant, and single-node clusters. Drive GitLab CI and GitOps automation, monitor performance, manage authentication and authorization, host persistent workloads, and maintain security compliance with FIPS, STIG, CMMC, and RMF requirements. Collaborate with architecture, security, and IT stakeholders while providing advanced escalation support and maintaining documentation and audit readiness.

Develops real-time space vehicle simulations supporting flight software development, testing, ground-system development, integration, and mission-operator training. Responsibilities span the full software lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, coding, testing, integration, and documentation. The role uses Agile practices, GitLab, DevSecOps pipelines, and technologies such as containers, messaging protocols, shared-memory architectures, and real-time operating systems. This is an on-site position requiring regular collaboration with cross-functional aerospace engineering teams.

Develops real-time space vehicle simulations supporting flight software testing, ground system development, mission operations, and training. Responsibilities span requirements, architecture, coding, testing, integration, and documentation within an Agile and DevSecOps environment. The role involves hardware-software integration and exposure to containers, messaging protocols, high-performance data architectures, networking, model-based simulation, real-time operating systems, and hardware- or processor-in-the-loop testing.