Senior Space Systems Engineer - Lead Spacecraft Architecture

CesiumAstro, Inc.; Westminster (CO); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Comprehensive benefits

Retirement plans

Job summary

CesiumAstro, Inc. is seeking a Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering across the product lifecycle for space vehicles and platforms.

You will translate mission objectives and customer requirements into technical solutions, define interfaces, and develop verification strategies while collaborating with software, hardware, and test teams. The role emphasizes risk management, traceability, and continuous process improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline with 5–8 years of relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of systems engineering principles and lifecycle.
• Experience developing, managing, and verifying system and subsystem requirements for space vehicles.
• Knowledge of systems architecture, interface management, systems integration, and configuration management.
• Experience with spacecraft fault management architecture and implementation

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer, mission, and system-level requirements and decompose them into clear, verifiable system and subsystem requirements.
• Ensure requirements maintain end-to-end traceability to customer requirements, system architecture, and CONOPS.
• Define and manage hardware, software, electrical, mechanical, and data interfaces between system elements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to refine requirements for completeness, feasibility, technical accuracy, and manufacturability.
• Support requirements management, configuration management, baseline control, and engineering change activities.
• Identify technical risks, requirement gaps, ambiguities, and design issues early in the development lifecycle.
• Support system architecture development, technical trade studies, and engineering analyses to evaluate design alternatives and optimize system performance.
• Develop verification and validation strategies, including verification methods, acceptance criteria, and levels aligned with program requirements.
• Define verification configurations, including hardware, software, firmware, and test environments.
• Develop and maintain verification documentation, VCRM, requirements traceability matrices, and verification evidence packages.
• Partner with Integration & Test teams to plan, coordinate, and support system integration and verification activities.
• Evaluate test results, resolve discrepancies, and support corrective actions to ensure compliance with system requirements.
• Support technical planning, PI planning, staffing assessments, and engineering execution activities.
• Prioritize systems engineering activities to meet milestones.
• Participate in technical reviews, design reviews, customer meetings, and engineering milestones.
• Mentor junior engineers on systems engineering best practices, traceability, verification, and documentation.
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes and documentation.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to support program execution.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

MBSE tools

Spacecraft fault management

Traceability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering

Master’s degree in related field

PhD in related field

Tools

Jama

IBM DOORS

CATIA Magic/Cameo

MagicDraw

Confluence

Jira

Git

GitLab

Bitbucket

Job description

CesiumAstro, Inc. is seeking a Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering across the product lifecycle for space vehicles and platforms.

You will translate mission objectives and customer requirements into technical solutions, define interfaces, and develop verification strategies while collaborating with software, hardware, and test teams. The role emphasizes risk management, traceability, and continuous process improvement.