Associate Systems Engineer - Mission Architecture and Systems Engineering Verified today
About the role
SpaceWrx, Vantor's division building next-generation satellite systems, ground infrastructure, and mission operations capabilities, is seeking an Associate Systems Engineer. You will establish and maintain the systems engineering foundation supporting multiple complex development programs.
You will be responsible for administering and maintaining systems engineering artifacts, ensuring technical consistency across engineering teams, and helping enforce design processes, standards, and best practices. Working closely with systems engineers and technical leads across multiple disciplines, you will help ensure that requirements, models, design artifacts, verification evidence, and technical decisions remain organized, traceable, and aligned throughout the system lifecycle.
This role provides broad exposure to spacecraft, ground systems, and mission operations while building a strong foundation in modern systems engineering practices. It provides significant opportunities to grow into broader technical systems engineering, architecture, integration, and mission engineering responsibilities over time.
Minimum qualifications
- U.S. Citizen
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or related technical discipline
- 1-3 years of professional engineering experience or relevant internship/co-op experience
- Fundamental understanding of systems engineering principles and the system development lifecycle
- Familiarity with requirements management concepts, including decomposition, allocation, verification, and traceability
- Exposure to Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) concepts and SysML
- Experience using engineering documentation, configuration-controlled repositories, or technical data management tools through academic or professional projects
- Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to coordinate across multiple engineering disciplines while maintaining technical accuracy and data consistency
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative engineering environment with multiple concurrent development efforts
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with requirements management tools such as IBM DOORS Next, Jama Connect, Polarion, or similar platforms
- Experience with MBSE tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler, Enterprise Architect, MagicDraw, or equivalent SysML modeling environments
- Familiarity and exposure to the Ansys engineering tool suite, including STK
- Familiarity with configuration management and engineering change processes
- Understanding of requirements verification and validation planning
- Experience organizing technical documentation and maintaining engineering baselines
- Familiarity with digital engineering methodologies and lifecycle traceability from initial concept design to verification and validation
- Exposure to spacecraft, satellite payloads, ground systems, mission operations, or other complex hardware/software systems
- Experience using Git, Jira, Confluence, or similar engineering collaboration tools
- Working knowledge of systems engineering standards such as ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, INCOSE systems engineering practices, or the NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
- Demonstrated ability to learn new engineering tools and processes quickly while supporting multiple technical teams
Compensation and benefits
Base pay for this position within Colorado: $86,000.00 - $115,000.00 - $126,500.00 annually. Pay for other states will vary based on geographic cost of labor.
Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package including robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance. This position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and individual results achieved.