Chief Space Missions Engineer — Systems & Mission Excellence

Redwire Space; Littleton (CO); On-site; USD 222,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Redwire Corporation in Littleton, CO seeks a Chief Engineer for Space Missions to serve as senior technical authority across the Space Missions portfolio. You will drive system architecture, requirements flow-down, and verification closure, ensuring mission success and technical rigor from concept through flight operations.

You'll lead cross-program reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership and customers to resolve complex tradeoffs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field is required.
• 20+ years of experience in spacecraft or complex aerospace system development is required.
• US citizenship and eligibility for security clearance are required.
• Ability to travel approximately 15% is required.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical authority across the Space Missions portfolio, ensuring technical integrity, rigor, and mission assurance.
• Allocate time across programs to address the most complex, high-risk technical challenges, providing hands-on technical leadership and independent technical judgment.
• Drive systems thinking throughout the full spacecraft lifecycle, ensuring cohesive architecture, requirements flow down, interfaces, and verification closure.
• Lead and participate in independent technical reviews, gate reviews, readiness assessments, anomaly and failure resolution efforts, and design decisions, bringing cross-program insight and historical context.
• Establish and uphold engineering principles, standards, and best practices across spacecraft, products, and disciplines.
• Mentor and coach technical leaders and Responsible Engineers.
• Provide technical oversight during proposal development, architecture definition, and early mission concept studies.
• Act as a trusted technical interface to customers, partners, and internal executives.

Skills

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

Spacecraft architecture

Trade-off analysis

Mentoring

Cross-program leadership

Travel 15%

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering

Master’s or Ph.D. in related field

Tools

MBSE

Model-based systems engineering

Configuration management

Job description

Redwire Corporation in Littleton, CO seeks a Chief Engineer for Space Missions to serve as senior technical authority across the Space Missions portfolio. You will drive system architecture, requirements flow-down, and verification closure, ensuring mission success and technical rigor from concept through flight operations.

You'll lead cross-program reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership and customers to resolve complex tradeoffs.