Associate Systems Engineer; Systems Engineer, Associate

Location: 2602 Clover Basin Drive, Unit D, Longmont, CO

Do you thrive on turning the impossible into reality? At Redwire Space, every day presents an opportunity to innovate, tackle fascinating challenges, and directly shape future technologies for multiple domains (space and terrestrial). Redwire is where groundbreaking ideas take flight, and the results are truly out of this world.

Join Redwire's RF Systems group in Longmont, Colorado, and become an integral part of engineering the next generation of RF products. These enable mission‑critical capabilities across space, air, land, and beyond. Whether it's advanced communications, sophisticated sensing, electronic warfare, or directed energy, our team delivers cutting‑edge solutions — from orbital deployments to the tactical edge — in support of one force, every front
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Decide today to become a part of our engineering team and you'll find yourself in a collaborative, agile environment where curiosity, purpose, and impact guide every decision. We are not just a company; we are a collective renowned for our technical expertise, leadership in engineering, and unwavering commitment to project ownership. Come experience a place where your contributions truly matter.

Redwire Space Solutions has an opportunity for an Associate Systems Engineer at our Longmont, CO facility. In this role, you will be responsible for developing system architectures, designing new systems, and guiding them through the entire development lifecycle. You will interface with customers, subcontractors, and project teams to drive the technical development of hardware systems. Key responsibilities include developing requirement architectures, integrated test planning, technical performance measurement, and lifecycle baseline management.

You will be supported by an experienced Systems team and collaborate with talented engineers across a wide range of disciplines.

As part of a diverse and dedicated team of engineers, technicians, and specialists, you will help develop cutting‑edge hardware solutions. Many projects are highly innovative with short development cycles, allowing you to see the results of your design work quickly. You will leverage your systems engineering expertise to help the team create advanced RF systems and deliver groundbreaking solutions.

• Participate in the design, assembly, and test of space or air‑based hardware systems.
• Ensure the delivered hardware meets internal and external stakeholder expectations and requirements.
• Foster trust, respect, and an inclusive team culture with colleagues and customers.
• Help generate products for gated design and operational reviews.
• Collaborate with customers to develop and refine the Concept of Operations.
• Develop, review, and assess verification artifacts such as test plans, requirement verification matrices, test reports, analysis reports, inspection reports, and help provide input on the appropriateness to the system goals.
• Act as a creative problem solver between multiple and sometimes conflicting interests in order to make sure the system as a whole is optimized, while ensuring internal and external stakeholders’ needs are being represented.
• Dynamically work with interdisciplinary teams and have the desire and ability to learn new systems.
• Support senior engineers in developing architectures based on customer requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering (or equivalent); a master’s degree may substitute for two years of experience.
• 2+ years of experience designing and manufacturing hardware systems, ideally for space or air‑based platforms.
• Experience developing RF hardware or aerospace hardware systems.
• Proficiency with systems engineering tools such as Jama, DOORS, or other requirements management methods.
• Familiarity with modern systems engineering and integration tools and methodologies.
• Strong communication skills with proven ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and coordinate complex…