Senior Systems Architect & Digital Engineering Lead — Space

Redwire Space; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwire Space seeks a Software Architect / Technical Product Lead to define and govern a digital ecosystem supporting emulation, simulation, digital engineering, data, and software platforms.

You will guide enterprise architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and shape long-term technical roadmaps for enterprise systems, including modeling, data, and frontend/backend layers.

Qualifications

• 7–15 years of enterprise software, simulation, or mission-critical systems architecture leadership.
• Experience leading multi-team projects and guiding cloud/hybrid deployments.
• Proficiency in Python, C++, or Rust for APIs, services, and simulations.
• Strong frontend knowledge with TypeScript/JavaScript and React.
• Familiarity with MBSE/SysML and MBSE tools such as Cameo or Teamwork Cloud.
• U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain DoD clearance.

Responsibilities

• Champion integration of Digital Engineering MBSE practices across Redwire's enterprise.
• Define system-level architectures for modeling, simulation, backend services, data platforms, and UI/UX integration.
• Oversee virtual system integration, verification, and validation strategies for multidomain systems.
• Build and scale knowledge-graph data systems supporting simulation and digital engineering workflows.
• Design and simulate interfaces across software, databases, simulation, and hardware boundaries to enable secure data access.
• Maintain digital twins for spacecraft and mission systems, ensuring traceability.
• Translate mission needs into architectural roadmaps and execution plans; align with program goals.
• Present strategies and roadmaps to executives, customers, and technical stakeholders.

Skills

Enterprise architecture leadership

Fullstack engineering leadership

Modeling & simulation

Modern frontend architecture

High-performance backend systems

DevSecOps alignment

Executive communication

Security eligibility

Tools

Cameo Systems Modeler

Teamwork Cloud

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

Redwire is an innovative space and defense technology company driving advanced capabilities across the aerospace sector. We are looking for a leader who can contribute to concept of operations development, mission solution design, and strategic analysis for spacecraft programs supporting National Security Space. This includes work spanning space domain awareness, space resiliency, mission autonomy, structures, sensors, and nextgeneration space systems.

The Software Architect / Technical Product Lead will be the technical authority responsible for defining, governing, and evolving a digital ecosystem that underpins the company's emulation, simulation, digitalengineering, data, and software platforms. This role blends systems fullstack technical expertise and product leadership to ensure corporate modeling, simulation, digitalthreads, and software capabilities are coherent, scalable, secure, and aligned with mission and business objectives. You will guide enterpriselevel architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and shape the longterm technical roadmap for enterprise systems.

Major Responsibilities

• Champion for integration of Digital Engineering MBSE practices, SysML modeling, and digitalthread integration across Redwire's enterprise.


• Defines system level architectures spanning modeling & simulation, backend services, data platforms, digitalengineering workflows, and UI/UX integration. Oversee virtual system integration, verification, and validation strategies for multidomain systems.


• Builds and scales knowledgegraph or graphoriented data systems architectures supporting simulation and digitalengineering workflows.


• Designs and simulates system and subsystem interfaces across agentic methodologies, software, databases, simulation, and hardware boundaries to enable the ability to connect, access, and share proprietary data.


• Maintains digital twins for spacecraft, mission systems, and engineering workflows, ensuring traceability and configuration integrity


• Translates mission needs and business objectives into architectural roadmaps, capability definitions, and execution plans. Works closely with systems engineers, simulation experts, software teams, mission analysts, and product leadership to align architecture with program goals.


• Presents architectural strategies, tradeoffs, and roadmaps to executives, customers, and technical stakeholders.

Ideal Experience

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  Enterprise architecture leadership - 7-15 years of experience architecting complex software, simulation, or missioncritical systems, including multiteam technical leadership. Knowledge of datamodeling, storage strategies, indexing, lineage, and governance across relational, graph, and document databases. Ability to translate mission needs and business objectives into architectural roadmaps, capability definitions, and execution plans.


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  Fullstack engineering leadership - Deep experience building and owning production systems across frontend, backend, and distributed service layers. Strong understanding of concurrency, caching, distributed systems, and performance optimization across the stack


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  Modeling & simulation expertise - Deep expertise in physicsbased modeling, digital twins, digital threads, MBSE/SysML, and simulationdriven system design. Previously lead the design and evolution of simulation engines, scenario frameworks, and AIaugmented simulation workflows.


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  Modern frontend architecture - Expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, scalable UI architectures, and performancecritical visualization interfaces. Architect REST, GraphQL, and gRPC ecosystems, including schema governance, versioning, and crossservice contract management.


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  Highperformance backend systems - Proficiency with Python, C++, and/or Rust for APIs, microservices, simulationadjacent services, and highthroughput backend systems. Ability to architect compute environments spanning onprem clusters, GPU/accelerated compute, Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud deployments.


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  DevSecOps alignment - Strong grounding in DevSecOps principles, supplychain security, secrets management, and compliance frameworks.


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  Executive communication - Present architectural strategies, tradeoffs, and roadmaps to executives, customers, and technical stakeholders. Work closely with systems engineers, simulation experts, software teams, mission analysts, and product leadership to align architecture with program goals.


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  Security eligibility - U.S. Citizen; able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance.

Desired Skills

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  Missionsystem architecture - Experience architecting systems for aerospace, defense, robotics, or other highintegrity domains. Proficiency with Cameo Systems Modeler, Teamwork Cloud, or comparable MBSE tools.


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  Physicsbased modeling - Advanced experience with MATLAB/Simulink or Python scientific libraries for numerical modeling and simulation.


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  Simulation workflows - Exposure to mission design, configuration analysis, tradespace exploration, or simulation orchestration. Understanding of 2D/3D visualization frameworks (WebGL, Three.js, R3F, Cesium) and their integration with simulation backends.


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  HPC & GPUaccelerated simulation - Familiarity with heterogeneous compute pipelines, GPU kernels, and largescale simulation orchestration.


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  Systems engineering certifications - INCOSE CSEP/ESEP, OCSMP, cloud architecture certifications, or equivalent.


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  Requirements management - Experience with Jama, DOORS, or similar tools.


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  Define enterprise architecture - Own the longterm architectural vision across simulation, data, backend, frontend, and infrastructure systems. Establish coding standards, API governance, datamodeling conventions, and architectural review processes.


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  Mentor senior engineers - Provide technical mentorship, architectural coaching, and career guidance to senior and stafflevel engineers.


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  Drive crossteam alignment - Ensure architectural coherence across simulation, DevOps, systems engineering, and product teams.


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  Evaluate emerging technologies - Assess new tools, frameworks, and methodologies for strategic adoption.


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  Support proposals & customer engagements - Contribute to technical proposals, customer briefings, and architecturefocused reviews.


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  Security eligibility - U.S. Citizen; able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance.

Pay range

$108,000 - $190,000 per year

Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration! We offer a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence.

Don'tmeet every single requirement above? No worries. We want people who can grow,collaborateand build a stronger team. We strive to build a diverse and inclusive culture, so ifyou'reexcited about this job posting, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Redwire Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with MIS is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

All offers of employment at Redwire Space are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check.

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