Sr. Systems Engineer

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Centennial, CO, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

At Rincon Research Corporation, our primary business is innovating, developing, and fielding digital signal processing (DSP) products and services for the United States Defense and Intelligence Communities in support of national security.

Rincon Research Corporation is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as the systems engineering lead of an end-to-end development program studying, designing, and deploying advanced orbit determination, maneuver planning and constellation management missions for United States Government space systems. RRC is looking for an exceptional systems engineering leader to guide this program through all phases of development—from early architecture and System Requirements Review (SRR) through Critical Design Review (CDR), integration, testing, and finally deployment into operational systems.

In this role, you will work with other team leads to serve as a lead system engineer for a complex space program. As a small business, RRC offers a unique opportunity to combine hands-on technical depth with senior-level leadership, allowing you to remain deeply engaged in detailed design and engineering decisions while helping to guide the overall program.

You will work in a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary environment alongside talented electrical engineers, mathematicians, aerospace engineers, and computer scientists/engineers. At RRC, systems engineers are involved across the entire system lifecycle from architecture and development through deployment, operations, and sustainment—receiving direct feedback from customers and seeing their work make a tangible, real-world impact. Innovation is expected: team members are encouraged to propose improvements to system architectures, engineering processes, tools, and security posture.

Come join the team that is creating cutting edge signal processing and geolocation systems for the future!

System Architecture & Technical Leadership

Define and evolve the overall system architecture, ensuring coherence across subsystems, interfaces, and mission phases

Balance performance, risk, cost, schedule, and margin in system-level decisions and trade studies

Resolve cross-discipline technical issues and elevate critical risks or trades to program leadership as needed

Participate in system requirements definition, allocation, traceability, and change control across the program lifecycle

Establish system-level verification and validation strategies aligned with mission objectives

Maintain system technical risks, margins, and mitigation plans

Program Technical Execution

Support system-level technical reviews, including SRR, PDR, and CDR

Integration, Test & Customer Interface

Define and oversee system integration, test, and verification activities

Serve as a technical interface to the customer, presenting architectures, design decisions, and technical status

Support pre-deployment testing, launch preparation, commissioning, and anomaly resolution, as applicable

Stay current with emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies, applying them when beneficial

Work across the full mission lifecycle from development through operations and proactively recommend improvements

Operate independently with minimal supervision and a strong sense of ownership

A key duty is staying current with the latest technologies, tools, and methodologies, as well as experimenting with new technologies to bring innovative solutions into RRC projects. RRC team members can expect to work across all functional areas: systems engineering, development, integration and testing, deployment and operations & maintenance, gaining direct mission feedback from customers and seeing your work make a meaningful impact.

You are encouraged and expected to suggest improvements for the projects you work on. The ability to work independently with minimal supervision and to…