SIGINT Flight Engineer with Security Clearance

XMSTART
Aurora, Colorado 80010 United States  View Map
Posted: May 30, 2026
  • Full Time
  • Federal Government
  • Summary

    Description
    XMSTART is looking to add an experienced and strategic full-time SIGINT Flight Engineer to our team, in Aurora, CO. This position is 100% onsite. Requirements
    Responsibilities: Provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services focused on SIGINT collection systems and systems engineering
    Represent the government in executing spacecraft integration, test, launch, and on-orbit operations
    Conduct anomaly support, launch and mission readiness, and end-to-end space systems architecture analysis
    Maintain close communications with the program acquisition office and customer engineering organizations providing recommendations on risk level of spacecraft activities
    Oversee day-to-day execution of mission operations and processes to ensure proper attention to health, safety, and effective use of national resources
    Provide launch and mission readiness subject matter expertise to operations and engineering including readiness for launch, spacecraft initialization, and transition to mission
    Qualifications: Experience in spacecraft, payload, and launch vehicle engineering as well as mission readiness
    process, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria
    SIGINT systems engineering expertise, and significant space and ground systems domain knowledge
    Technical familiarity with SIGINT system's payloads, subsystems, and technical capabilities
    Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; readily defines
    solutions for broad, abstract topics
    Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment
    Preferred Qualifications: 4-years' experience in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and/or closing DoD or Intelligence Community projects or Programs
    Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft operator or spacecraft engineer, familiar with space operations/policies
    Familiar with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools, Agile development, cloud technologies
    Contract management/COTR support experience
    Experience with Jira, Confluence
    Education: Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or
    Relevant field and nine (9) years or
    More experience; Master's Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience
    Certification: COTR certification (preferred)
    Security Clearance Requirements: Must be a US Citizen with with an Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
  • Job Description

    Description
    XMSTART is looking to add an experienced and strategic full-time SIGINT Flight Engineer to our team, in Aurora, CO. This position is 100% onsite. Requirements
    Responsibilities: Provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services focused on SIGINT collection systems and systems engineering
    Represent the government in executing spacecraft integration, test, launch, and on-orbit operations
    Conduct anomaly support, launch and mission readiness, and end-to-end space systems architecture analysis
    Maintain close communications with the program acquisition office and customer engineering organizations providing recommendations on risk level of spacecraft activities
    Oversee day-to-day execution of mission operations and processes to ensure proper attention to health, safety, and effective use of national resources
    Provide launch and mission readiness subject matter expertise to operations and engineering including readiness for launch, spacecraft initialization, and transition to mission
    Qualifications: Experience in spacecraft, payload, and launch vehicle engineering as well as mission readiness
    process, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria
    SIGINT systems engineering expertise, and significant space and ground systems domain knowledge
    Technical familiarity with SIGINT system's payloads, subsystems, and technical capabilities
    Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; readily defines
    solutions for broad, abstract topics
    Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment
    Preferred Qualifications: 4-years' experience in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and/or closing DoD or Intelligence Community projects or Programs
    Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft operator or spacecraft engineer, familiar with space operations/policies
    Familiar with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools, Agile development, cloud technologies
    Contract management/COTR support experience
    Experience with Jira, Confluence
    Education: Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or
    Relevant field and nine (9) years or
    More experience; Master's Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience
    Certification: COTR certification (preferred)
    Security Clearance Requirements: Must be a US Citizen with with an Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
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