Top Engineering Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Build and operate high-throughput backend services for AI agents, calendar, scheduling, integrations, real-time data pipelines, and APIs. Design platform infrastructure, event-driven systems, and client-server protocols using Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Collaborate with AI, product, and frontend teams, improve reliability through testing and infrastructure as code, and mentor junior engineers.

Leads complex ASIC and VLSI design projects from architecture through validation and testing. Provides technical leadership, reviews designs for compliance and quality, mentors engineers, guides outsourced development partners, drives VLSI innovation, and contributes to platform architecture and cross-functional initiatives.

Leads complex VLSI and ASIC design projects across architecture, validation, testing, and implementation. Provides technical leadership for internal and outsourced engineering teams, reviews designs for compliance and quality, drives technology integration and innovation, mentors engineers, and supports technical leadership development. Requires expert knowledge of VLSI principles, digital logic, computer architecture, hardware design tools, and analytical problem-solving.

Design, deploy, validate, and maintain Comcast’s national optical transport backbone. Responsibilities include backbone service engineering, capacity planning, network troubleshooting, circuit validation, software and firmware lifecycle management, vendor coordination, technical documentation, and on-call operational support. The role requires extensive Ciena 6500 and large-scale DWDM experience, strong networking fundamentals, and the ability to lead technical decisions during critical events.

Leads space vehicle systems engineering through development, testing, delivery, and on-orbit operations. Supports the chief engineer, manages technical baselines, leads design and readiness reviews, directs systems engineering staff, and oversees architecture, interface, CONOPS, trade studies, risk assessment, and anomaly resolution. The role serves as a technical representative to customers and partners, contributes to proposals, and coaches engineers while balancing technical performance, cost, and risk.

Ensures high availability, stability, performance, and supportability of Vertafore products. Responsibilities include troubleshooting applications, databases, configurations, and code; resolving escalations; automating support processes and deployment pipelines; coordinating releases; monitoring systems; conducting root-cause analysis; maintaining runbooks; supporting projects; participating in on-call coverage; and mentoring team members.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for leading design and delivery of large-scale order platform capabilities spanning cloud and point-of-sale systems. The role drives architecture, performance, reliability, API design, code quality, incident response, and technical roadmap alignment. It also requires cross-team collaboration, domain expertise in order processing and synchronization, mentoring engineers, and using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity.

Own the avionics subsystem across design, analysis, requirements, interfaces, supplier management, build, testing, verification, integration, and operations. Lead design reviews, anomaly investigations, risk management, schedule execution, and technical decisions while coordinating engineers, technicians, suppliers, systems engineering, and program leadership. Support environmental testing, launch-site activities, commissioning, and on-orbit anomaly response for spacecraft programs.

Develop and maintain scalable Java and Kotlin backend services for NinjaOne’s SaaS backup and recovery platform. Design high-availability features supporting backup, archive, restore, and download workflows at large scale. Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams, own architecture and design decisions, mentor engineers, optimize databases and distributed systems, and deliver reliable production software using technologies including AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and REST frameworks.

Designs spacecraft harness assemblies, 3D routes, wiring diagrams, and electro-mechanical assemblies connecting power, propulsion, guidance, navigation, data, and telemetry systems. Coordinates with engineering, production, quality, and program management; analyzes harness reliability and quality; supports production; and develops bills of materials in an ERP system. The role is onsite in Long Beach or Centennial, requires 20% travel, and requires the ability to maintain or obtain TS/SCI clearance.

Build and operate CI/CD and continuous delivery pipelines, Terraform-based infrastructure, multi-cloud platforms, and Kubernetes deployments. Develop progressive delivery, automated rollback, release orchestration, policy guardrails, security and cost checks, and reusable infrastructure modules. Partner with engineering teams on IaC adoption, monitor delivery health, respond to incidents, and improve deployment reliability, lead time, and recovery. The role requires deep AWS expertise, multi-cloud experience, production Terraform, scripting, observability, and cloud operations skills.

Design, develop, test, debug, and document software for spacecraft and space systems. Write maintainable code, collaborate on requirements, participate in code reviews, manage changes with Git, resolve software issues, and apply software development methodologies. Preferred work includes flight software, mission management, payload control, automated testing, static analysis, software design patterns, and open space-system standards.

Lead DoD systems development programs using MBSE, SysML, Cameo, and digital engineering practices. Architect systems, guide teams through the systems engineering lifecycle, establish requirements traceability, customize and automate modeling tools, mentor engineers, and collaborate with software and domain experts. The role supports software-intensive, open-architecture systems across defense mission areas and requires an active Secret clearance with eligibility for Top Secret.

Drives performance engineering and scalability across software systems by identifying bottlenecks, optimizing code, queries, databases, and architecture, and implementing fixes. Builds performance frameworks, data-generation tools, benchmarks, and CI/CD automation using k6, JavaScript, Grafana, and InfluxDB. Establishes performance standards, investigates distributed systems and cloud environments, documents architectural decisions, and collaborates with engineering teams to improve throughput, latency, reliability, and efficiency.

Develop and maintain scalable Python software, integrations, and web applications. Collaborate with QA, IT operations, analysts, and stakeholders in an Agile/Scrum environment. Design technical solutions, translate workflows into requirements, participate in code reviews and Scrum ceremonies, optimize relational and non-relational database queries, troubleshoot production issues, and improve application performance and security.

Owns company-critical, long-term technical problems across multiple teams and organizations. Defines technical strategy, architectures, roadmaps, and engineering standards for large-scale customer-facing systems. Remains hands-on in software development while driving AI adoption in products and engineering workflows. Partners with senior product, engineering, and executive leaders to resolve complex problems, improve reliability and performance, and shape Dropbox’s technical direction.

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 SSD system architecture and design from concept through high-volume manufacturing. Defines system requirements, characterization strategies, and technical decisions; resolves complex firmware, hardware, and system issues; and drives performance, power, thermal, reliability, quality, and manufacturability improvements. The role coordinates cross-functional engineering teams, mentors engineers, supports customer readiness, and applies AI-enabled tools for engineering productivity and continuous improvement.

Leads SSD system design and architecture from concept through high-volume manufacturing. Defines system requirements, drives architecture reviews, resolves complex firmware-hardware issues, and develops characterization strategies for performance, power, thermal behavior, and reliability. Provides technical leadership across global engineering teams, mentors engineers, influences product roadmaps, and advances quality, manufacturability, validation, and customer readiness through data-driven debugging and AI-enabled improvements.

Lead frontend technical strategy for Affirm’s checkout decision orchestration systems. Design and architect scalable web applications, guide major technical initiatives, improve reliability and operational processes, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on building fast, clear, and reliable checkout experiences using modern declarative UI frameworks.

Designs and develops aerospace tooling, jigs, fixtures, and manufacturing aids using CAD and PLM software. Collaborates with manufacturing and engineering teams on feasibility, design reviews, documentation, validation, and implementation. Supports production troubleshooting, trains technicians and operators, ensures tooling quality and safety compliance, and applies lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, GD&T, and engineering principles to improve manufacturing efficiency.

Performs radiometric calibration, image analysis, sensor characterization, and statistical evaluation for imaging systems. Develops Python software, automated workflows, and data-processing tools; analyzes large datasets; supports cloud and distributed computing environments; and contributes to system commissioning, validation, and sustainment. Collaborates with engineering and scientific teams, supports field and laboratory activities, prepares technical documentation, and presents findings to stakeholders.

Owns quality for solid rocket motor propellant manufacturing, including AP milling, mixing, casting, and curing. Develops process controls, validation plans, FMEAs, SPC, inspection criteria, batch record reviews, and corrective actions. Leads optimization and expansion of radiographic NDT capabilities, including equipment qualification and production integration. Supports SRM quality, audits, AS9100 compliance, safety-critical manufacturing, and MRB activities while partnering with engineering, manufacturing, EHS, and supply chain teams.

Leads technical direction for scalable, secure, resilient software platforms while remaining hands-on with architecture, implementation, prototyping, debugging, and complex engineering problems. Modernizes legacy systems toward cloud-native, API-first, and AI-enabled architectures; establishes engineering standards; improves automation, testing, observability, and developer productivity; and mentors senior technical leaders across teams.

Design, build, and maintain Airflow-based automation pipelines and services to move files, run scheduled FTP jobs, validate and modify data, monitor application health, parse logs/emails, implement robust error handling and observability, and integrate API-driven systems to reduce manual operational work.