
Systems Engineer, Mid
Colorado Springs, COFull-time$95–140K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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AMERICAN SYSTEMS seeks a mid-level Systems Engineer to support system sustainment, modifications, and complex technical projects. The role includes engineering analysis, requirements development and traceability, configuration-data maintenance, documentation, and test activities. The engineer works under Senior Systems Engineer direction on Bifrost and CDS-related change packages and contributes to design reviews, verification, and customer acceptance testing.
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Systems Engineer, Mid Location US-CO-Colorado Springs ID 2026-5034 Category Software & Systems Development Position Type Full-Time Remote No Clearance Required Top Secret Overview AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training. Responsibilities - Performs detailed engineering for system sustainment and modifications, including technical baseline updates, ICD/ICS/interface analysis, customer onboarding, requirements traceability, data-flow and dependency analysis, and configuration-data maintenance. Supports Bifrost and CDS-related change packages, engineering documentation, test execution, and implementation activities under Senior Systems Engineer direction. - Support complex projects to include design and management over the project life cycle. - Applies sound principles and methods to difficult problems in technical areas to arrive at automated solutions. - Apply work-processes and tools to manage risks on technical projects in the areas of engineering, organizations studies, and project management. - Designs and prepares technical reports and related documentation, and makes charts and graphs to record results. - Prepares and delivers presentations and briefings. - Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with multi-disciplineengineering teams to develop lower-level detailed requirements. - Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensureapplicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation. - Generates system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures. - Reviews test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractualrequirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements Qualifications - Bachelor's degree - 5-7 years of related work experience - Active Top Secret Clearance - US Citizenship Pay Transparency Statement AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is USD $95,000.00/Yr. - USD $140,000/Yr. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors permitted by law. AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides for the welfare of its employees and their dependents through a comprehensive benefits program by offering healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance. EEO Statement EEO Race/Sex/Disability Status/Veteran Status Apply at: https://ipc.us/t/F3EAC1F6A57E43A2.
How this job compares
Set against the 10,745 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$95–140K/yr
- Colorado median$114–176K/yr879 salary ranges
- US median$115–188K/yr7,938 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $118K, is 20% below the Colorado median midpoint ($147K) — in the lowest quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,025 open Systems Engineer jobs in Colorado and 10,745 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
- Lockheed Martin146 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (8,921 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 4,703 of the 10,745 open Systems Engineer jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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