Senior Systems Engineer

GRVTY; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 160,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Retirement planning

Paid time off

Continued education

Job summary

GRVTY is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as a technical anchor across a large-scale, multi-team space ground initiative. You will bridge mission operations, stakeholders, and distributed software pods in an agile setting.

Lead MBSE modeling, define data contracts, and ensure traceability from software backlogs to system requirements while guiding verification and customer demonstrations.

Qualifications

• Active Top-Secret clearance with SCI access and polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with 15+ years of engineering experience (or Master's with 13+ years).
• Proven track record delivering space-ground architectures and C2 systems.
• Expert-level proficiency in MBSE modeling and SysML.
• Experience defining interface protocols for distributed software (RESTful APIs, event streams).
• Heavy use of Jira/Confluence for backlog and traceability.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex mission needs into robust digital engineering artifacts and baselines.
• Govern and maintain ground segment SysML models with bidirectional traceability.
• Collaborate with agile teams to decompose capabilities into technical criteria and backlogs.
• Define ground-to-space and ground-to-ground messaging schemas and protocols.
• Develop verification strategies, review tests, and lead formal sell-off with customers.
• Lead TEMs, ICWGs, and ERBs; represent engineering in milestone reviews.

Skills

MBSE modeling

SysML

REST APIs

Protobuf/JSON

Jira/Confluence

Event streaming

Pub/Sub

Kubernetes

Docker

Education

B.S. in STEM fields

M.S. in STEM fields

Tools

MBSE tools

Atlassian suite

Job description

We are seeking an accomplishedSenior Systems Engineerto serve as a principal technical anchor across a large-scale, multi-team engineering initiative supporting mission-critical satellite ground systems. In this lead-by-example role, you will bridge the gap between high-level mission operations, external segment stakeholders, and distributed software development pods.

Operating embedded within an agile development framework, you will provide deep domain expertise to steer ground segment architecture, author authoritative digital engineering artifacts, resolve cross-system interface complexities, and drive full-lifecycle verification and operational sell-off.

What You'll be Owning

• Lead the translation of complex customer mission needs, operational concepts (CONOPS), and multi-segment interfaces into robust digital engineering artifacts—including baseline ICDs, end-to-end operational sequence diagrams, data schemas, and verifiable requirements.
• Architect, govern, and maintain the ground segment’s behavioral and structural SysML models. Ensure model consistency, maintain tight bidirectional traceability to software user stories, and enforce MBSE modeling standards across the engineering teams.
• Embed with agile scrum teams to decompose epic-level capabilities into precise technical acceptance criteria and software backlogs, ensuring software builds reliably conform to mission objectives and interface constraints.
• Drive the definition and technical governance of ground-to-space and ground-to-ground messaging schemas and protocols (REST, HTTP, Protobuf/JSON, pub/sub), ensuring low-latency data transport and clean subsystem separation.
• Architect comprehensive verification and validation strategies. Review automated test plans, establish verification matrices, troubleshoot high-tier integration anomalies, and spearhead formal requirements sell-off with customer representatives.
• Lead technical exchange meetings (TEMs), interface control working groups (ICWGs), and engineering review boards (ERBs). Represent the engineering program during formal milestone reviews and executive customer demonstrations.

What You Must Have

• Active or currentTop-Secret clearance with SCI access and polygraph (TS/SCI with poly).
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline) with15+ yearsof relevant engineering experience (or Master's degree with 13+ years).
• Extensive, proven track record delivering space-ground architectures, Command and Control (C2), and mission management solutions through all lifecycle phases from concept to operational handover.
• Expert-level proficiency building and managing complex behavioral and structural models using MBSE tools
• Deep experience establishing interface protocols and data contracts for modern, distributed software architectures (RESTful APIs, event streaming, message brokers, microservice data models).
• Extensive experience applying systems engineering discipline within scaled Agile/Scrum development frameworks using theAtlassian suite (Jira, Confluence)for product backlog decomposition and technical traceability.

What Would be Nice to Have

• Direct experience integrating systems deployed to cloud-native, containerized environments (Kubernetes,Docker).
• Familiarity with automated integration test frameworks (e.g., Playwright, PyTest, or automated API test suites).
• Experience modeling or evaluating space-vehicle subsystem interactions (telemetry, commanding, orbit dynamics, payload operations).
• Track record of coordinating architecture across multi-vendor or geographically dispersed engineering teams.

Pay Range:

At GRVTY, we understand that compensation is influenced by many factors - such as geographic location, federal contract labor categories, wage rates, prior experience, skillsets, education, and certifications. We're proud to offer a work environment that empowers our team to achieve a strong work-life balance. GRVTY provides competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth. Our benefits package is designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families, and includes coverage in areas such as healthcare, financial wellness, retirement planning, family assistance, continued education, and paid time off.

• The pay range for this position is: $160,000 - $225,000