Senior Satellite Systems Engineer - LEO Bus & Vendor Lead

EVONA; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

EVONA in Denver, Colorado is seeking a Principal Satellite Systems Engineer to own satellite bus procurement and oversee supplier performance across design, verification, integration, and on-orbit operations.

You will collaborate with external vendors from requirements through environmental testing and launch, ensuring compliance with mission and environmental requirements for complex spacecraft.

Qualifications

• 5–12 years of aerospace or satellite systems engineering experience.
• End-to-end spacecraft programme experience from architecture through assembly, integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
• Experience owning design, analysis, qualification, or verification of a satellite bus or complete spacecraft.
• Strong requirements development, decomposition, traceability, and verification experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical interactions with satellite bus suppliers and manage design or performance issues.
• Develop statements of work, bus specifications, system requirements, and verification criteria.
• Review spacecraft designs, ICDs, analysis packages, integration plans, and test reports.
• Evaluate vendor responses to RFIs and RFPs.
• Confirm supplier hardware and software meet mission, payload, and environmental requirements.
• Support payload-to-bus integration across power, data, thermal, structural, RF, timing, and software interfaces.
• Oversee qualification for LEO environments, including radiation, thermal, structural, and EMI/EMC considerations.

Skills

Requirements management

System integration

Supplier management

LEO environment knowledge

Verification & qualification

Architecture decomposition

RF/Communications

Timing systems

Education

Bachelors degree in engineering or related field

Job description

EVONA in Denver, Colorado is seeking a Principal Satellite Systems Engineer to own satellite bus procurement and oversee supplier performance across design, verification, integration, and on-orbit operations.

You will collaborate with external vendors from requirements through environmental testing and launch, ensuring compliance with mission and environmental requirements for complex spacecraft.