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Astro Digital · Littleton, Colorado
About Astro Digital
Astro Digital designs, builds, and operates a diverse range of small satellite systems supporting space-based turnkey missions for several business applications, including earth observation, communications, in-orbit demonstrations, risk reduction, science, and exploration. Astro Digital is headquartered in Littleton, Colorado with roughly 120 employees and infrastructure around the globe.
Position Summary
As a Product Systems Engineer, you will help shape the architecture of our product offering. This role sits at the boundary between architecture and implementation and brings coherence across hardware, software, and the systems that connect them. You will work with senior engineers to define the structure of our ongoing product developments, contribute to architecture decisions, help define interfaces and requirements at the product level, and own the customer-facing interface so they remain coherent, reusable, and product-relevant.
Primary Duties &
Contribute to defining the general architecture of our offering across our products
Requirement allocation across hardware, software, embedded systems, in-house components, and external components
Help define and evolve the core processing chain as a coherent part of the offering
Support the design of software tools and interfaces as the main entry point for customers
Help clarify the interaction model between embedded software, application software, customer software, third-party software
Help document and maintain requirements, interfaces, and architectural boundaries
Participate in architecture discussions and help align product intent, system architecture, and implementation realities across teams
Ownership of product EIDP, ICDs, architecture notes, trade studies, and related technical documentation
Help ensure solutions are reusable, scalable, and understandable
Participate in architecture reviews and support technical decision-making
Take a product from early requirement definition, through development, to a production line and customer support
Minimum
Solid systems engineering background in technical products spanning software, electrical and mechanical
Some experience working across architecture definition, requirements structuring, and engineering implementation
Manage products through their entire lifecycle from conception to delivery
Ability to help structure complex systems into clear capabilities, interfaces, requirements, and responsibilities
Good understanding of software-heavy systems, including abstraction layers, distributed devices, APIs, and integration patterns
Ability to collaborate on cross-functional technical work across teams without relying on direct authority
Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to help turn technical ambiguity into a clear framework for decisions and execution
Good engineering judgment on the right level of rigor, abstraction, and specification for a growing organization
Preferred
Experience with complex embedded or distributed systems including field-deployed tooling
Customer-facing technical platforms
Exposure to embedded programming
Exposure to designing for integration by customer-owned or third-party software
Exposure to architecture trade studies, requirement allocation, or system-level interface management
Familiarity with flight software architectural patterns and spacecraft operations
Familiarity with Internet Protocol and basic networking
Work Location
On site
Physical Demands
This position requires the ability to lift and move objects weighing up to 50 Lbs. Frequent standing, walking, bending, and reaching may be required.
Export Statement
This position requires access to export-controlled commodities, technical data, technology, software, and services. U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 22 CFR §120.15 and 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3) is required.
Details
| Company | Astro Digital |
| Location | Littleton, Colorado |
| Type | FULL TIME |
| Niche | Full-time |