Engineer Senior Principal - Ground Systems
BAE Systems · Boulder, CO · Engineering & Technology
About this role
BAE Systems is hiring a senior-level Systems Engineer in the operations function based in Boulder, CO. The posting calls out experience with CI/CD, Jira, Testing, Agile. Compensation is listed at $130,355–$221,603 per year.
- Role
- Systems Engineer
- Function
- operations
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Boulder, CO
- Department
- Engineering & Technology
- Posted
- May 14, 2026
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Job description
from BAE Systems careersJob Description
We are looking to expand our team with a talented and energetic ground system engineer in support of operation of space vehicles and ground systems for commercial, DoW, and NASA customers. This position consists of working on a tightly integrated team in a fast-paced Agile environment to deliver continuous innovation to our customers.
The Ground Systems Engineer is in support of design, requirements, analysis, integration, and test of satellite ground systems for DoW customer.
The Engineering, Science and Analysis (ESA) Strategic Capabilities Unit comprises the technical talent and organizational leadership that enables the successful delivery of high-impact discriminating technologies for our customers’ missions. Our collaborative, cross-functional teams are committed to innovation, integrity, continual learning and strong execution.
What You’ll Do:
- Support design, development, integration and testing of an enterprise ground system.
- Apply technical expertise, and knowledge of ground systems.
- Fully competent in core systems engineering skills, contribute to effective producibility of designs, and to cost, budget, and schedule constraints over program lifecycle.
- Work is performed with limited direction. Completed work is reviewed from a relatively long-term perspective, for desired results.
- Develop technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.