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United Launch Alliance

Rockets for national security and NASA

Systems Engineer 4

Spacecraft & Launch Vehicle SystemsPosted on Nov 13
Full-timeCentennial, CO, USA$121.3k - $202.2k

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field from an accredited college or university.
  • At least 6 years of related work experience.
  • Deep technical expertise in one or more engineering domains relevant to launch vehicles, such as propulsion, structures, avionics, flight software, or ground software.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams through complex technical integration challenges.
  • Experience defining system architecture, performance allocations, verification logic, and integration plans.
  • Strong engineering judgment and ability to guide technical decisions with minimal oversight.
  • Experience leading major design reviews and presenting to technical leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multidisciplinary integration across cross-technology airborne development teams.
  • Own system-level requirements, architecture definition, and verification strategy.
  • Lead complex technical analyses, subsystem interactions, and failure investigations.
  • Drive major trade studies and provide technically authoritative recommendations.
  • Shape systems engineering processes, digital engineering workflows, and configuration-controlled system artifacts.
  • Mentor and coach engineers across the organization, elevating technical rigor and critical thinking.
  • Represent systems engineering in enterprise-wide technical forums and cross-program alignment activities.
  • Drive high-visibility review products and strategic technical decision packages.
  • Champion Agile principles and help teams apply Agile ways of working to accelerate learning, improve integration cadence, and increase delivery effectiveness.

Desired Qualifications

  • Be a recognized technical influencer able to elevate the systems engineering discipline across projects and teams.
  • Demonstrate the ability to coach and mentor integrators and early-career engineers.
  • Demonstrate the ability to synthesize complex engineering information and communicate clearly to senior leadership, peers, and customers.
  • Have capability in digital engineering and model-based systems engineering, including model architecture development, model fidelity expectations, digital thread integration, and model governance.
  • Have experience leading digital engineering adoption or contributing to enterprise-level model-based systems engineering transformation.
  • Have experience leading Agile teams or shaping Agile behaviors across engineering organizations.

About the Company

United Launch Alliance

Rockets for national security and NASA

ULA builds launch vehicles for national security, NASA and commercial space missions. Its rockets are designed to reach challenging and distant orbits and deliver highly accurate payload insertions, offering wide orbital flexibility for different mission profiles. The company’s approach centers on providing reliable, direct-to-orbit capabilities tailored to meet customers’ needs for secure national missions, space agency programs, and commercial launches. The goal is to expand access to space by offering dependable, precise launches that can place payloads into the specific orbits required by each mission.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$1.6B
Headquarters
Centennial, CO
Founded
2006

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