Prin Sys Engr - Mission Integration Lead

Position:
Principal Systems Engineer – Mission Integration Lead

Location:

Aurora, CO. Onsite.

Security clearance: TS/SCI active clearance required prior to start; U.S. citizenship mandatory.

• Serve as the technical champion and steward for assigned class of vehicles throughout development, integration, delivery, and transition to operations.
• Develop and maintain deep technical expertise in mission objectives, operational concepts, interfaces, and system capabilities.
• Partner with Product Management and OCE to align technical execution with program priorities and milestone objectives.
• Advocate across Agile Delivery Teams to ensure required capabilities, technical work, and integration activities are delivered on schedule.
• Identify technical, integration, interface, and schedule risks affecting assigned mission area and drive timely resolution.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Cyber, Integration & Test, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to deliver mission capabilities.
• Represent mission area during customer engagements, technical interchange meetings, demonstrations, design reviews, and milestone events.
• Develop trusted relationships with customers, users, and external partners.
• Influence backlog priorities by advocating for necessary technical work.
• Foster collaboration across engineering organizations for technical trade studies.
• Support continuous improvement of mission integration processes, technical planning, and cross‑functional execution.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics, and minimum 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience leading technical execution of complex software‑intensive systems or systems‑of‑systems in government or defense.
• Experience collaborating across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Experience influencing technical direction and resolving integration challenges in Agile environments.
• Active and transferable U.S. government‑issued TS/SCI clearance required prior to start; U.S. citizenship required.

• Experience as Technical Lead, Systems Engineering Lead, Chief Engineer, Product Owner, or similar roles.
• Experience supporting satellite ground systems, mission‑management, command‑and‑control, or other mission‑critical software.
• Experience applying Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler and SysML.
• Experience defining and integrating software interfaces using OpenAPI, service‑oriented architectures, or modern integration patterns.
• Experience leading cross‑functional integration spanning multiple engineering organizations.
• Experience supporting customer demonstrations, technical interchange meetings, and operational events.
• Experience with Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, cloud‑native architectures, distributed systems.
• Experience with Agile development and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Salary range: $107,500 – $204,500 USD.