Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States. Workplace: On-site. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional residents, asylees, refugees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Company

hirify.global develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms.

What you will do

• Lead systems engineering activities from concept development through design, integration, verification, launch, and operational support.
• Analyze and decompose customer, mission, and system-level requirements while maintaining end-to-end traceability.
• Define hardware, software, electrical, mechanical, and data interfaces across system elements.
• Develop spacecraft system architectures, fault management solutions, technical trade studies, and engineering analyses.
• Develop verification and validation strategies, configurations, documentation, traceability matrices, and evidence packages.
• Support integration and test, technical reviews, mission readiness, risk management, program planning, and corrective actions while mentoring junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, systems, electrical, mechanical, or computer engineering, physics, or a related discipline with 5–8 years of relevant experience; equivalent master’s or PhD pathways are accepted with 3–6 or 0–3 years of experience respectively.
• Strong knowledge of systems engineering principles, the systems development lifecycle, requirements management, systems architecture, interface management, integration, and configuration management.
• Experience developing, managing, and verifying requirements for space vehicles, including spacecraft fault management architecture and implementation.
• Understanding of verification, validation, systems integration, mission planning, launch support, and on-orbit operations.
• Experience with requirements management tools such as Jama or IBM DOORS; MBSE tools such as CATIA Magic, Cameo, or MagicDraw; and systems modeling and simulation tools.
• Must meet U.S. space technology export-control eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, or other highly regulated engineering programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, interactive, and autonomous engineering work.
• Cross-functional collaboration across software, hardware, mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, integration and test, mission operations, and program management.
• Participation in technical reviews, customer meetings, engineering milestones, and continuous process improvement.
• Use of collaboration, version control, configuration management, and issue tracking platforms including Confluence, SharePoint, Git, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Jira.