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📍 Location
Boulder
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
May 27, 2026

About the Role

**Job Description**

We're seeking an action-oriented engineer with intellectual curiosity who is excited to put their potential to use testing space flight hardware. The position will be as part of a spacecraft / space vehicle test team as a test lead, with a focus on testing execution of flight hardware.

As a Senior Principal Engineer at BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems (SMS) you will lead and mentor team members within the field. You will have the opportunity to:

Lead or support significant test campaigns on a large bus and space vehicle program.
Develop and support new business pursuits.
Take responsibility as a lead for strengthening and supporting the company s strategic goal.

This is a challenging, fast-paced job which will be exciting and highly gratifying for the successful candidate.

The Engineering, Science and Analysis (ESA) Strategic Capabilities Unit comprises the technical talent and organizational leadership that ...

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