Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer – Lead & Integrate

Airbus Ventures; Westminster (CO); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 161,000; Full time

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Job summary

CesiumAstro is seeking a Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer to lead the systems engineering activities across the product lifecycle for space systems. You will translate mission objectives and customer requirements into technical solutions and drive verification, integration, and risk management.

You will collaborate with software, hardware, mechanical, electrical, and mission operations teams to ensure system performance, cost, and schedule objectives are achieved, from concept through launch

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in a technical field with 5–8 years of experience, or Master’s with 3–6 years, or PhD with 0–3 years.
• Strong systems engineering principles and lifecycle knowledge.
• Experience developing and verifying space vehicle requirements.
• Familiar with MBSE and configuration management.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and decompose into verifiable system requirements.
• Define interfaces and manage traceability across the system.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure feasibility and manufacturability.
• Develop verification strategies and documentation (VCRM, RTMs).
• Lead system architecture studies and risk analyses.
• Support integration, test planning, and mission readiness.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

MBSE

Jama/IBM DOORS

Confluence/SharePoint

Jira

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's in Aerospace/Systems/EE/Mech/Computer/Physics

Master’s in related discipline

PhD in related discipline

Tools

CATIA Magic/Cameo

MagicDraw

System modeling software

Git/GitLab/Bitbucket

Jama/IBM DOORS

Job description

CesiumAstro is seeking a Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer to lead the systems engineering activities across the product lifecycle for space systems. You will translate mission objectives and customer requirements into technical solutions and drive verification, integration, and risk management.

You will collaborate with software, hardware, mechanical, electrical, and mission operations teams to ensure system performance, cost, and schedule objectives are achieved, from concept through launch