Sr. Systems Engineer

Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX's small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, is solving some of the toughest challenges in space. Our components and bus platforms have completed missions ranging from very-low Earth orbits to lunar and interplanetary journeys at a fraction of the cost of traditional space systems. We support premier defense, commercial and civil organizations including the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, MIT Lincoln Lab, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Colorado and more.

Join our innovative and dynamic company as we build, test and operate the small spacecraft of the future.

As the Sr. Systems Engineer for ADCS products, you'll own the day-to-day technical execution of BCT's integrated attitude determination and control systems – the avionics boxes that have enabled hundreds of spacecraft and missions. You will integrate other BCT components (star trackers, reaction wheels, CMGs, torque rods, and sun sensors) into a spacecraft‑specific ADCS system that you own end to end.

From experiences from each unit built, you influence product roadmaps, so the next generation integrates better than the last. You're embedded in the Components team with the authority to lead technical development, run issue investigations, and keep maturing products that are already in production.

You're the technical "glue" for the team. You take ownership naturally when things are ambiguous or need attention, and you don't wait for perfect requirements to start asking the right questions and moving issues forward. You communicate clearly, stay steady under pressure, and lead through influence by creating clarity, aligning the team, and helping others make sound, product‑minded decisions. What matters most is products that can be built, tested, and delivered at scale through engineering decisions that hold up on the factory floor and on orbit.

This is a high‑ownership, hands‑on role. If you're the kind of person who reads an ambiguous problem and starts pulling on threads, you'll do well here.

Title:

Senior Systems Engineer

Position Type:
Full Time

Pay Range: $108,000 - $180,000

(Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)

On‑site position at our Boulder, CO location (work locations are subject to change based on business need).

• Employer sponsored health, dental, and vision benefits effective the first of the month following hire date
• Life insurance
• 401k (matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution)
• Generous PTO (3 weeks of vacation + 3 floating holidays, 2 weeks of sick time, 7 paid holidays throughout the year) and parental leave

• Internalize the integrated system. Become the person who understands the ADCS systems broadly and deeply (where the interfaces are, how the components behave together, and what drives system‑level performance) and is able to answer most technical questions from your own knowledge but knowing when and which expert to pull in across mechanical, electrical, and software.
• Keep the disciplines aligned. Lead design reviews, risk burn‑downs, and internal engineering meetings; anticipate integration issues and resolve interface gaps before they escalated, and mentor Level 1/2 engineers by modeling clear ownership and technical rigor.
• Drive test and qualification. Contribute to test planning, qualification campaigns, and design validation, making sure coverage maps to system requirements.
• Influence the component interfaces and roadmaps. Act as the internal customer for the star tracker, wheel, CMG, and sensor lines by defining what the integrated system needs from them, holding the interfaces clean, and steering their technical direction so each generation integrates better than the last.
• Support customer‑facing discussions. Communicate status, design intent, and risk credibly to people who are not familiar with the product or its capabilities.
• Own production support and sustainment. Keep products in active production and delivered flight hardware healthy (configuration management, EIDP generation,…