Senior Space Systems Engineer - End-to-End Spacecraft Design

Arcfield; Louisville (CO); On-site; USD 88,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcfield seeks a Systems Engineer III to lead design and validation across Orion Space Solutions products, acting as a technical authority for systems engineering on complex spacecraft and payloads.

The role emphasizes deriving requirements, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and driving milestone reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) with a focus on traceability and verification. Strong aerospace experience is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant engineering field plus 5 years, MS plus 3 years, or PhD plus 1 year of professional experience in systems engineering for high-reliability space and aerospace applications.
• Extensive experience with systems engineering development methods on complex product architectures.
• Experience supporting programs and products through all phases of development – from requirements derivation and development to sustainment.
• Experience with aerospace requirements management tools (DOORS, Jama, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Perform systems engineering activities in all stages of product design, from customer requirements derivation, through design, verification and validation, AI&T, and product launch.
• Derive and manage requirements at all levels of complex space systems, sub-systems and components.
• Using a holistic approach, designs, develops, evaluates and modifies end-to-end systems and system-oriented products through their entire life cycle.
• Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics.
• Author and design verification and validation methods and document them through procedures.
• Translate high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and work with other cross-functional teams to develop derived level design implementation requirements.
• Establish and coordinate development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development timeline.
• Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.
• Reviews test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements.
• Participate in and contribute to Risk Review and Configuration Control Boards.
• Act as the Systems Lead for a dedicated subsystem (Mechanical, Electrical, Software, etc.).
• Management of Interface Control Documentation, specifically payload-to-bus interfaces.
• You will organize, prepare and drive execution of customer-facing milestone design reviews: SRR, PDR, and CDR.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Spacecraft systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant engineering field

Tools

DOORS

Jama

Job description

Arcfield seeks a Systems Engineer III to lead design and validation across Orion Space Solutions products, acting as a technical authority for systems engineering on complex spacecraft and payloads.

The role emphasizes deriving requirements, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and driving milestone reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) with a focus on traceability and verification. Strong aerospace experience is required.