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True Anomaly · Denver, CO · Long Beach, CA · Space Systems · first seen 2026-07-16
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Your Mission

True Anomaly builds autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors to deliver decisive capabilities for space superiority. As a Systems Engineer III, you will define, analyze, and ensure successful implementation of mission, element, and subsystem requirements across complex, mission-critical space systems supporting national defense.

You will support requirements development, traceability, and verification across multiple vehicles. Working with cross-functional teams, you will conduct impact analyses, ensure design integrity, support integration and test planning, perform risk assessments, and provide inputs for design reviews.

Your Responsibilities

As a Level 3 Systems Engineer, you will act as a focal for specific subsystem disciplines. Depending on the subsystem, you may:

  • Collaborate with internal teams to define mission objectives, system requirements, and operational concepts
  • Support requirements traceability and verification planning
  • Translate customer and mission needs into actionable engineering solutions aligned with technical and programmatic constraints
  • Support system trade studies, performance evaluations, and feasibility assessments for optimal system architecture design
  • Prepare detailed technical reports, presentations, and documentation for internal and external stakeholders, including government agencies
  • Develop system-level integration and verification plans, conducting end-to-end testing to validate mission requirements
  • Coordinate with subsystem teams to troubleshoot and resolve integration challenges
  • Support mission operations teams during testing and real-time mission execution
  • Conduct system performance analysis, including reliability, safety, and mission effectiveness under various environmental conditions
  • Assess mission success criteria and operational risks, and propose mitigation strategies
  • Identify and analyze mission risks related to complex space missions, including collision risks and operational uncertainties

Subsystem Focus Areas

The Systems Engineering team supports multiple programs across these subsystem domains:

  • Command and Data Handling
  • Communications
  • Cyber/Crypto
  • Electrical Power
  • Flight Software
  • Guidance, Navigation, and Control
  • Mechanisms
  • Payload Integration
  • Propulsion
  • Structures / Harness
  • Thermal Control

Required Qualifications

  • 5 or more years of applicable aerospace or systems engineering experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
  • Strong analytical and communication skills
  • Ability to support cross-functional technical teams and coordinate across hardware and software boundaries
  • Desire to develop both subsystem domain knowledge and Systems Engineering skills
  • U.S. Citizen and eligible for DoD TS/SCI or TS/SAP U.S. government security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering
  • Experience in design, analysis, and verification on a major aerospace program
  • Strong track record leading cross-functional engineering teams and managing design-to-delivery cycles
  • Demonstrated expertise with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
  • Background in range certification, test readiness reviews, and safety boards
  • Active TS/SCI clearance
  • Experience in defense or classified space missions
  • Familiarity with U.S. Department of Defense and NASA mission standards and processes
  • Experience working with government agencies, primes, or subcontractors on space missions

Compensation and Benefits

  • Base Salary: $105,000 to $160,000
  • Equity participation as part of total compensation
  • 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents, with HSA/HRA options
  • Flexible Time Off for exempt employees; accrued PTO up to 25 days for non-exempt employees, plus 12 paid holidays
  • Parental Leave and Sick Leave
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Fitness reimbursement

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, location, and experience.

Work Location

This is a fully onsite position based in our Centennial, CO or Long Beach, CA office.

Export Control and Citizenship

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.