Senior Lead Systems Engineer

It would be great if you also had

• Master’s degree or doctorate in aerospace, systems engineering, or a related discipline.
• 12+ years of spacecraft engineering experience, including service as a lead systems engineer, spacecraft bus lead, or chief engineer.
• Experience taking a spacecraft through design, integration, environmental testing, launch, commissioning, or on-orbit operations.
• Technical depth in one or more spacecraft subsystems, such as GN&C, electrical power, avionics, flight software, propulsion, thermal, structures, or communications.
• Experience with model-based systems engineering (MBSE)/SysML.
• Familiarity with NASA, Department of Defense, Space Force, ECSS, AIAA, or commercial spacecraft standards and mission-assurance practices.
• Experience with reliability and safety analyses, fault management, redundancy, radiation effects, and single-point-failure assessments.
• Experience managing suppliers, launch vehicle interfaces, payload integration, and ground or mission-operations interfaces.
• Experience supporting business development, capture, proposals, customer presentations, technical volumes, and basis-of-estimate development.

As the Senior Lead Systems Engineer, you will

• Serve as the technical lead and systems engineering authority for the spacecraft bus throughout the program lifecycle.
• Lead spacecraft architecture, requirements development and allocation, design trades, technical baselines, and system-level decision-making.
• Direct cross-functional integration of bus subsystems, including structures, thermal, power, avionics, flight software, GN&C, propulsion, communications, and harnessing.
• Define and manage interfaces among the spacecraft bus, payload, launch vehicle, ground segment, mission operations, customers, and suppliers.
• Lead technical gate reviews, maintain system requirements, verification plans, interface documentation, technical budgets, performance margins, and configuration baselines.
• Responsible for oversight of customer deliverables with author role for fault management, reliability, survivability, compliance matrix and bus user’s guide.
• Coordinate risk management, issue resolution, anomaly investigations, and design or test corrective actions.
• Develop and oversee the spacecraft assembly, integration, verification, and validation strategy, including environmental and end-to-end testing.
• Work with engineering leads to ensure the design complies with mission, customer, safety, reliability, quality, regulatory, and mission-assurance requirements.
• Coordinate technical execution with program leadership, customers, suppliers, payload teams, launch providers, manufacturing, and test organizations.
• Mentor engineers and subsystem leads while clearly communicating technical status, risks, decisions, and recommendations.
• Support new-business pursuits by developing mission concepts, spacecraft architectures, technical solutions, compliance assessments, risk evaluations, cost and schedule inputs, proposal content, statements of work, and customer presentations.
• Participate in customer engagements, capture activities, proposal reviews, and technical interchange meetings to communicate solution value and feasibility.
• Improve systems engineering processes, tools, standards, and lessons learned.

How We Care for You

• Financial Rewards: great compensation package, annual profit sharing, matching 401k and the ability to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible paid time off, holidays and parental leave program, relocation assistance.
• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Professional Skills Development: Tuition Assistance, mentorship and coaching opportunities, leadership development and other personal growth programs.
• Collaborative and Welcoming Workplace: Inclusive culture rooted in our values, enhanced by Employee Resource Groups, and team-building activities.
• Schedule: Monday – Friday, on a 9/80 schedule.

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Salary Range Transparency

Arvada, CO $145,000.00–$210,000.00 Annually