Senior Lead Systems Engineer

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Job Title:

Senior Lead Systems Engineer

Reporting To:
Engineer Sr., Systems

Work Schedule:

Hybrid – Arvada, CO (5 days a week on a 9/80 schedule, providing every other Friday off)

Arvada, CO is nestled near the foothills of the front range, just west of Denver. The office is a 10‑minute drive from downtown Golden and Arvada and is an easy commute from most of the Denver Metro area. Colorado offers year-round outdoor activities and is a melting pot of cultures.

Moog’s Space and Defense Group is seeking an experienced Senior Lead Systems Engineer to join our Space Vehicles team in Arvada, CO. The candidate will work through all phases from conceptual design to development, integration, test, and delivery. Typical space vehicle applications include spacecraft buses, a “smart upper stage”, an in‑space transfer vehicle, and a hosted payload platform.

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of relevant aerospace engineering experience, including spacecraft or similarly complex mission‑critical systems.
• Experience leading spacecraft payload, bus or space vehicle‑level systems engineering across multiple lifecycle phases.
• Strong understanding of spacecraft architectures, subsystem interactions, requirements management, interface control, technical budgets, and verification.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary trade studies, integration activities, technical risk management, design reviews, system testing, and anomaly resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross‑functional teams and make sound technical decisions while balancing performance, risk, cost, and schedule.
• Experience with requirements management, configuration management, analysis, modeling, or engineering collaboration tools.
• Experience leading technical teams, design reviews, supplier oversight, trade studies, and anomaly investigations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting technical information to multidisciplinary teams, leadership, customers, and suppliers.
• Ability to support occasional travel and off‑shift testing and support when required.

• 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:

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