Systems Engineer

• Work with cross-functional engineering teams to integrate complex spacecraft technologies across subsystems
• Collaborate across power, communications, and avionics disciplines
• Document requirements
• Track system performance
• Support verification testing
• Participate in meaningful aerospace projects, networking, and skills development
• Master essential business processes and procedures
• Strengthen technical expertise through hands-on application and expert guidance
• Engage in cross-functional workshops and leadership sessions

Systems Engineer Intern

• Lead and execute preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for mission-critical systems and infrastructure
• Analyze system performance, identify degradation trends, and lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
• Develop and implement technical solutions and corrective actions to restore system capability and improve reliability
• Provide technical leadership during system anomalies, mission-impacting events, and environmental disruptions
• Maintain system configuration integrity through engineering documentation, change control, baseline verification, and validation
• Evaluate system changes, maintenance activities, and operational impacts for compliance with technical requirements and mission objectives
• Develop, review, and improve maintenance procedures, technical documentation, troubleshooting processes, and engineering workflows
• Mentor engineering and maintenance personnel on troubleshooting, system operation, maintenance practices, and technical decision-making
• Collaborate with systems engineering, operations, maintenance, program leadership, customers, and stakeholders to resolve technical issues
• Support integration, verification, validation, testing, and implementation of system modifications and upgrades
• Perform hands-on engineering and maintenance activities on antenna systems, elevated structures, and mission equipment
• Support 24/7 mission operations through rotating shifts, anomaly response, emergency support, and on-call assignments

Senior Systems Engineer – Onsite

• Advise customers on satellite operation and maintenance activities
• Advise customers on ground command and control system operations
• Conduct technical meetings and author database and software change requests
• Identify and implement process improvements
• Create and implement software tools to improve team efficiency
• Perform ground computer system software and database testing
• Author, maintain, review, and support satellite operations procedures
• Configure and run simulations to support procedure validation
• Conduct technical analyses and studies and provide recommendations
• Perform satellite data trending and analysis to determine spacecraft performance
• Perform problem solving and support other engineers in a team environment
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers
• Support platform operations and engineering for 10 on-orbit satellites
• Lead a small team as part of the WGS on-orbit team

Senior Satellite Systems Engineer

• Support the US Space Force, Space Systems Command, in operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars
• Plan, develop, and deliver UEWR radar hardware and software modifications in response to engineering change requests and system deficiency reports
• Ensure logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions within technical, schedule, and cost constraints
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies
• Translate customer and operational requirements into system hardware and software engineering specifications
• Provide detailed information on selection, implementation techniques, and tools for efficient solutions meeting business needs and future capacity or capability requirements
• Manage large Agile or DevSecOps teams and projects, including cost estimating, risk management, schedule development, and execution
• Design, develop, deliver, and deploy engineered solutions following DoD life-cycle engineering processes and/or best practices
• Support delivery of new capabilities to UEWR operational sites

Principal Systems Engineer

• Advise customers on satellite operation and maintenance activities
• Advise customers on ground command and control system operations
• Lead a small team supporting platform operations and engineering for 10 on-orbit satellites
• Conduct technical meetings
• Author database and software change requests
• Identify and implement process improvements
• Create and implement software tools to improve team efficiency
• Perform ground computer system software and database testing
• Author, maintain, review, and support satellite operations procedures
• Configure and run simulations to support procedure validation
• Conduct technical analyses and studies and provide recommendations
• Perform satellite data trending and analysis to determine spacecraft performance
• Perform problem solving and support other engineers in a team environment
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers
• Support dynamic satellite operations and engineering activities across requirements, design, build, integration, testing, and demonstration

• Advise customers on satellite operation and maintenance
• Advise customers on ground command and control system operations
• Participate in technical meetings
• Author database and software change requests
• Perform ground computer system software and database testing
• Author, maintain, review, and support satellite operations procedures
• Configure and run simulations to support procedure validation
• Conduct technical analyses and studies and provide recommendations
• Perform satellite data trending and analysis to determine spacecraft performance
• Solve problems and support other engineers in a team environment
• Lead a small team supporting platform operations and engineering for 10 on-orbit satellites
• Support development of MILSATCOM ground systems managing protected tactical waveform transmission over WGS satellites and terminals

Satellite Systems Engineer – Mid-Level, Lead

• Advise customers on satellite operation and maintenance
• Advise customers on ground command and control system operations
• Participate in technical meetings and author database and software change requests
• Perform ground computer system software and database testing
• Author, maintain, review, and support satellite operations procedures
• Configure and run simulations to support procedure validation
• Conduct technical analyses and studies and provide recommendations
• Perform satellite data trending and analysis to determine spacecraft performance
• Perform problem solving and support other engineers in a team environment
• Lead a small team supporting platform operations and engineering for 10 on-orbit satellites
• Support dynamic satellite operations and engineering activities for WGS satellites

• Design and own RPO mission plans, including relative motion design, approach and hold-point sequencing, delta-V budgets, and operational timelines
• Build passive safety into spacecraft approaches
• Author flight rules and procedures for close approach, including keep-out volume enforcement, go/no-go gates, abort and breakout criteria, custody handoffs, and conjunction screening
• Own mission operations plans and procedures across LEOP, commissioning, on-orbit checkout, and operations
• Drive pre-launch operations campaigns, including day-in-the-life tests, mission rehearsals, failure injection, and corrective changes
• Validate procedures and command sequences on flatsats and hardware-in-the-loop testbeds
• Feed operational constraints into GNC, flight software, ground software, and communications designs
• Create and analyze vehicle and campaign performance metrics
• Triage anomalies, determine root causes, and coordinate next steps under time pressure
• Train operators and mission crews on spacecraft and RPO execution
• Support ground testing, launch windows, and on-orbit operations
• Work with teams and government agencies to obtain FCC and NOAA licenses and comply with spacecraft operating regulations

Systems Engineer, Spacecraft Operations

• Contribute to the development and implementation of advanced system solutions throughout the product development lifecycle
• Specify, architect, and integrate complex system solutions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and subject matter experts to understand project requirements and objectives
• Derive, decompose, allocate, trace, and manage system requirements and architectures
• Define and document system concepts of operation
• Create artifacts and deliverables for development milestone reviews
• Oversee system integration and verification activities
• Identify and manage technical risks and develop mitigation strategies
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
• Adhere to established engineering processes and standards
• Communicate with team members and stakeholders to ensure project alignment and successful execution
• May lead small teams executing systems engineering scope

Systems Engineer III – MBSE

• Contribute to the development and implementation of advanced system solutions
• Provide alignment, connection, and direction to the technical team throughout the product development lifecycle
• Represent the viewpoint of the integrated whole during system development
• Integrate segments and subsystems through top-down decomposition of stakeholder requirements
• Maintain traceability through development artifacts
• Perform bottom-up system validation and verification
• Shepherd the team through technical development milestones
• Track performance measures and identify technical risks
• Support delivery of compliant and cohesive system solutions
• Build expertise in requirements management, system architecture development, concept of operation definition, system integration, and system verification
• Apply Model Based Systems Engineering approaches and tools

Systems Engineer jobs in Colorado

Systems Engineer Intern

Senior Systems Engineer – Onsite

Senior Satellite Systems Engineer

Principal Systems Engineer

Senior Satellite Systems Engineer

Satellite Systems Engineer – Mid-Level, Lead

Satellite Systems Engineer – Mid-Level, Lead

Systems Engineer, Spacecraft Operations

Systems Engineer III – MBSE

Systems Engineer II – MBSE