Senior Staff Engineer (Satellite Control)

Location: Hybrid, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. The role requires an on-site, mission-driven environment with periodic coordination or travel to vendor or mission sites.

Salary: $140,000–$210,000 USD per year.

Company

Engineering, science, and advanced technology solutions support government and commercial missions in ground, air, space, and information systems.

What you will do

• Translate urgent mission outcomes into acquisition strategies, prototype decision plans, fielding strategies, and measurable evidence requirements.
• Drive portfolio trade-offs across mission effect, performance, cost, schedule, integration complexity, cybersecurity, interoperability, and production scalability.
• Design rapid experiments, demonstrations, knowledge points, exit criteria, and off-ramps to retire risk before prototype commitment.
• Establish modular open architecture principles, open interfaces, data-rights objectives, and replaceable capability increments.
• Evaluate commercial products, non-traditional suppliers, competitive prototyping, and alternative contracting pathways.
• Coordinate acquisition, contracting, finance, operations, intelligence, communications, engineering, test, cybersecurity, logistics, and industry stakeholders through execution and transition.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, software engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, engineering management, or a related technical discipline, plus at least 10 years of relevant experience.
• Recognized technical leadership and experience influencing high-consequence mission or acquisition decisions.
• Experience creating or executing acquisition strategies during concept maturation, pre-prototype planning, rapid prototyping, or another early phase of a complex defense, intelligence, space, or mission capability.
• Technical depth in mission architectures, operational threads, interfaces, data flows, modularity, interoperability, transition constraints, and integration risk.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including presenting options, consequences, and recommendations to senior leaders.
• Active DoD security clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Satellite Control, telemetry, tracking and command, space-ground integration, command and control, or mission management systems.
• Experience working with the U.S. Space Force, Space Systems Command, Space Operations Command, or another DoD acquisition organization.
• Master’s degree or acquisition, contracting, portfolio leadership, product delivery, or mission analytics credentials.
• Experience with commercial-first sourcing, COTS evaluation, Other Transaction pathways, digital threads, digital twins, AI-enabled analytics, or portfolio scorecards.
• Current Top Secret or TS/SCI eligibility.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with a comprehensive benefits package.
• Hybrid work in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.
• Work supporting safety, security, resiliency, and critical government and commercial missions.
• No required certifications or drug screening.
• The position is contingent upon contract award and includes a seven-year pre-employment background check.