Senior Systems Engineer & Product Owner - Satellite Ground

Talent Stack; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off & holidays

Life and disability insurance

Employee assistance & wellness

Professional development and career‑成长

Job summary

Talent Stack is recruiting a Principal Systems Engineer – Product Owner for a confidential defense/aerospace client. You will own the ground software capability vision and roadmap, acting as the technical link between Product Manager, Chief Engineer, customers and engineering teams.

The role requires significant systems engineering experience and the ability to lead complex technical efforts within a SAFe Agile environment, translating mission needs into executable priorities and delivering with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of professional experience in systems engineering or product ownership roles.
• Experience as Product Owner/PM/Technical Lead in an Agile environment.
• Experience with satellite ground systems, mission operations, or systems engineering.
• Familiar with Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket.

Responsibilities

• Own and communicate vision, strategy, and roadmap for a key ground system component.
• Align engineering teams, leadership, customers around priorities and objectives.
• Plan and execute PIs within a SAFe Agile environment.
• Translate needs into requirements, designs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Manage and prioritize the team backlog across features, tech debt, risks.
• Lead readiness and design reviews, demonstrations, and technical presentations.
• Develop technical documentation, guidance, and product strategies.
• Drive requirements management, interface definition, risk management, integration, verification.
• Coordinate across systems, software, integration, and test teams to deliver.

Skills

Product Owner/PM leadership

Agile SAFe

Systems engineering

Jira

Confluence

DevSecOps / CI/CD

TS/SCI clearance

C2 satellite ground systems

Technical communication

Java/C++/Python

Linux / cloud environments

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM or related technical discipline

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Job description

Talent Stack is recruiting a Principal Systems Engineer – Product Owner for a confidential defense/aerospace client. You will own the ground software capability vision and roadmap, acting as the technical link between Product Manager, Chief Engineer, customers and engineering teams.

The role requires significant systems engineering experience and the ability to lead complex technical efforts within a SAFe Agile environment, translating mission needs into executable priorities and delivering with