Top Engineering Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.

Lead development and sustainment of optical coating capabilities for EO payloads. Collaborate with optical architects, supply chain, and technicians to design, qualify, and produce spaceflight-capable coatings. Produce data packages and reports, supervise junior staff, and maintain required security clearance and on-site presence for laboratory, production floor, and cleanroom work.

Lead anti-tamper and program protection engineering for C2BMC: perform risk/threat assessments, develop and maintain AT/CPI/exportability plans, support V&V, advise on countermeasures, brief stakeholders, and ensure fielding and milestone criteria are met.

Support C2BMC network security by planning, deploying, integrating, and testing network upgrades; develop cyber-secure device configurations, ensure STIG hardening and DoD RMF compliance, conduct research, document designs, run cyber protocols, and assist during operational events.

Analyze end-to-end performance of electro-optical and multispectral remote-sensing payloads across radiometric, spatial, and spectral domains. Develop modeling and simulation methods, assess imagery and environmental impacts, support requirements, performance budgets, verification, validation, testing, and design reviews. Collaborate with systems, algorithm, calibration, image-processing, mission-operations, AI&T, and hardware engineering teams. Present technical findings to peers, management, and customers.

Lead the design, development, integration, testing, and delivery of real-time space vehicle simulators in hardware-in-the-loop and digital environments. Define requirements and architectures, guide technical decisions, develop software across its lifecycle, deploy containerized simulation services, and ensure simulator products meet mission-critical operational use cases. Collaborate within Agile, DevSecOps, and cross-functional engineering 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 the design, development, integration, testing, and delivery of real-time space vehicle simulators in hardware-in-the-loop and software-only environments. Define requirements, architectures, interfaces, use cases, and verification strategies while providing technical leadership. Develop operational software using C/C++, Ruby, or Python; deploy containerized simulation services; and apply systems engineering, Agile, DevSecOps, version control, and formal development practices.

Leads architecture for complex mission software and simulation capabilities, defining end-to-end mission data flows, interfaces, models, and software designs. Translates mission requirements into implementable architectures, evaluates reuse opportunities, leads technical trades, guides multidisciplinary implementation teams, and resolves integration issues. Supports lifecycle activities including integration, verification, validation, testing, technical reviews, and program sell-off. Requires strong technical communication and leadership across systems engineering, payload, software, modeling and simulation, and test organizations.

Provides technical leadership for mission software architectures, modeling and simulation capabilities, mission data flows, interfaces, and end-to-end processing. Translates mission needs and requirements into software functions and architectures, evaluates reuse opportunities, leads architectural trades, documents designs, guides implementation teams, and supports integration, verification, validation, testing, and technical program reviews. Collaborates across systems, payload, ground, software, simulation, and test teams.

Drive firmware architecture for SSD platforms, develop firmware tools, provide debug support, validate customer requirements, and collaborate across engineering teams.

Own end-to-end customer and system validation for enterprise and data-center SSD products. Plan qualification cycles, configure validation environments, develop test cases and automation, analyze failures, perform debugging and risk assessment, and coordinate with firmware, hardware, systems, and product teams. Provide technical ownership, mentorship, and guidance across validation programs while supporting customer-specific platform qualification and compatibility testing.

Own customer-focused system and SSD validation for enterprise and data-center products, including planning qualification cycles, maintaining test environments, analyzing results, debugging system and drive issues, reproducing customer problems, and developing automated test cases and scripts. Coordinate with firmware, hardware, and systems teams, lead validation execution, contribute to test strategy, mentor engineers, and apply AI to improve organizational efficiency.

Own customer-focused system and SSD validation for enterprise and data-center products. Plan qualification and regression cycles, maintain test environments, analyze results, debug system and drive issues, develop automation and test cases, and coordinate with firmware, hardware, and systems teams. The role also mentors engineers, contributes to validation strategy, supports customer qualification programs, and drives root-cause resolution across complex hardware and software environments.

Deploys and operates classified terrestrial and cloud networks across on-premise, AWS GovCloud, and IL-6+ environments. Responsibilities include routing, switching, boundary protection, segmentation, encrypted communications, STIG implementation, RMF/ATO support, network documentation, and troubleshooting. The role also configures NSA Type 1 cryptographic devices, manages KEYMAT and CCI documentation, and collaborates with security, cloud, and engineering teams. An active Secret clearance and ability to obtain TS/SCI are required, with occasional travel to government and classified facilities.

Leads architecture, requirements, interface management, analysis, procurement, integration, testing, and operational support for space vehicle telecommunications subsystems. Manages technical risks, cost, schedule, milestones, and customer reporting while supporting launch, early operations, on-orbit testing, and post-delivery activities. Requires RF, microwave, optical, or space communications hardware experience and collaboration across engineering teams.

Design and lead the technical strategy for search across Vannevar’s products. Build and improve full-text, vector, and LLM-powered retrieval systems, optimizing latency, relevance, index quality, freshness, and performance. Collaborate with ML, product, design, and mission strategy teams to translate user needs into search innovations. Apply expertise in information retrieval, NLP, machine learning, indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, vector search, and evaluation frameworks.

Lead architecture and technical execution for Toast’s Payroll and Team Management products. Own authentication, authorization, and organizational hierarchy across a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Drive high-scale, full-stack initiatives, modern agentic development practices, integrations, technical strategy, quality standards, deployment practices, and cross-functional collaboration. Mentor engineers across teams and leverage AI tools and LLM integration to improve software development velocity and quality.

Own and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure supporting a financial and hospitality technology platform. Design highly available systems, deployment pipelines, observability, security controls, and infrastructure migrations. Lead incident response, reliability planning, capacity management, and root-cause analysis while participating in on-call rotations. Partner with application engineers, establish infrastructure standards, and mentor platform engineers as the organization scales.

Leads and scales the HR Engineering team supporting Workday and related HR applications. Provides technical and functional mentorship, oversees Workday operations, drives automation, upgrades, process improvements, testing, and implementations. Partners with stakeholders, security teams, vendors, and geographically distributed teams to deliver secure, scalable HR technology solutions. Manages vendor RFPs and relationships while coordinating technical projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

Build and operate a stablecoin payment rail for merchant checkout, subscriptions, refunds, reconciliation, and onchain settlement. Deliver full-stack features across Go services and React/Next.js interfaces, including APIs, protobufs, database migrations, wallet connectivity, and durable Temporal workflows. Improve accessibility, conversion, performance, and observability through logs, metrics, and traces. Participate in on-call rotations and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate Payment Acceptance into Coinbase’s developer platform.

Lead frontend development for Coinbase identity experiences including login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-factor authentication. Own projects from design through deployment and monitoring, guide Native versus Webview architecture, author technical designs, resolve systemic technical debt, lead on-call and incident response, and mentor engineers.

Leads system-level validation, integration, and joint qualification of enterprise and datacenter NVMe SSDs. Responsibilities include developing validation strategies and test plans, performing system bring-up and debugging across hardware, firmware, drivers, operating systems, and platforms, conducting failure analysis, supporting customer issue reproduction, and improving automated Python-based testing and AI-enabled validation workflows. The role also mentors engineers and coordinates qualification activities across firmware, hardware, manufacturing, product engineering, and customer engineering teams.

Leads system-level validation, integration, and qualification of enterprise and datacenter NVMe SSDs. Directs test plans, system bring-up, OS and driver validation, failure analysis, customer joint qualification, and issue reproduction. Develops Python automation and AI-enabled validation workflows to improve coverage and efficiency. Collaborates with firmware, hardware, manufacturing, product, and customer engineering teams while mentoring engineers and ensuring production readiness.

Build and maintain backend services, REST APIs, data layers, tests, and microservices for a SaaS platform. Responsibilities include debugging distributed production systems, managing PostgreSQL and advanced data stores, documenting APIs and data models, participating in Agile development and code reviews, and owning a platform domain. The role requires Java or Kotlin, Spring Boot, API design, database optimization, monitoring, security tooling, and AI-assisted development. Preferred experience includes Go, Neo4j, RabbitMQ, Redis, multi-tenant SaaS, event-driven systems, microservices, and containerization.