Engineer Senior Principal - Spacecraft Mechanical Design Lead
BAE Systems · Boulder, CO · Engineering & Technology
senior
software engineering
Hardware Engineer
tech_leadership
· Posted May 12, 2026
$132,962 – $226,035
USD per year
About this role
BAE Systems is hiring a senior-level Hardware Engineer in the software engineering function based in Boulder, CO. Compensation is listed at $132,962–$226,035 per year.
- Role
- Hardware Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Boulder, CO
- Department
- Engineering & Technology
- Posted
- May 12, 2026
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Job description
from BAE Systems careersJob Description
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:
- Lead the mechanical Design effort for new spacecraft and spacecraft bus in the unclassified and classified environment from proposal phase through award, detailed design, fabrication, assembly, test, and requirement verification.
- Define, maintain, iterate, and verify the mechanical requirements that are needed to meet the system and other subsystem requirements and interfaces.
- Generate, iterate, maintain, and release the spacecraft configuration, primary/secondary structure design, and mechanism architecture that meet system and subsystem requirements.
- Working on CAD and doing simple hand structural analysis calculations during proposal and program initial startup.
- Transition to leading team of 5-10 design and analysis engineers with majority of time spent leading the team and communicating with the internal and external customers.
- Transition to leading team of 5-40 design, analysis, test, and manufacturing engineering responsible for fabrication, assembly, and test with majority of time spent leading the team with the ability to lead and resolve complex technical issues as they crop up.
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