Sr. Propulsion Systems Engineer

Title: Sr. Propulsion Systems Engineer Position Type: Full Time Pay Range: $108,000 - $165,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.) On-site position at our Lafayette, CO location (work locations are subject to change based on business need). Benefits: • Employer sponsored health, dental, and vision benefits effective the first of the month following hire date • Life insurance • 401k (matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution) • Generous PTO (3 weeks of vacation + 3 floating holidays, 2 weeks of sick time, 7 paid holidays throughout the year) and parental leave Job Responsibilities: • Develop and maintain spacecraft delta-v and/or propellant budgets, given mission-level requirements • Create/confirm propulsion subsystem designs • Develop and manage propulsion subsystem and component requirements and verification techniques • Develop tools for propulsion subsystem performance analyses • Oversee propulsion component and/or subsystem development, design, qualification, and verification efforts • Develop interface specifications, CONOPS definition, subsystem description documents, and other design documents related to propulsion subsystems • Author and manage propulsion hardware vendor specifications, requests for information, and statements of work • Assist with customer meetings and facilitate technical exchanges with customers and vendors • Assist with proposals and facilitate technical exchanges with the engineering team • Manage subcontract vendors to ensure high quality and timely product delivery • Support program design reviews • Collaborate closely with technical program leads across diverse domain expertise • Support the allocation of driving requirements (both cost and technical) • Support key trades (both cost and technical) • May include personnel management responsibilities • Other responsibilities as assigned Required Qualifications/Education: • 7+ years of relevant experience • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science discipline, or equivalent • Experience with all phases of the program life cycle (business development, mission formulation, requirements flow-down, manufacturing, integration and test, and on-orbit operations) • System design experience, balancing performance, cost, power, emerging technologies, etc. • Ability to perform trade studies and parametric analyses • Ability to develop procurement documents (specification, SOW) and manage subcontracts • Good documentation and communication skills • Ability to work rapidly with some supervision on projects involving both small and large engineering teams • Experience and skills in project definition, simulation, implementation, lab integration and test • Must be able to work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with emphasis in rapid prototyping and fielding of capabilities • Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education Working Conditions: This job operates in a professional office environment, but in a manufacturing company. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines. BCT anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require BCT to shorten or extend the application window. Physical Demands and Work Environment: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time. The employee is occasionally required to stand, bend, reach, and walk. The position requires some light physical effort. This would require the ability to lift or move objects up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities are required by this job which includes close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus. We recommend applying directly via the Blue Canyon Technologies website, careers page: https://www.bluecanyontech.com/careers