Secret Systems Engineer - Cameo MBSE at Insight Global
Boulder, CO
$110,000–$195,000from the description
Jul 16, 2026
Boulder, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A systems engineering role supporting U.S. Space Force programs in missile defense and missile warning, based full-time at a customer facility in Boulder, CO. Day-to-day work spans requirements development and traceability, system design, and integration/testing within a multi-contractor environment using MBSE tools, digital engineering platforms, and Agile/DevSecOps practices. Suited to mid- or senior-level engineers with a DoD clearance and hands-on MBSE experience.
Senior level · 5+ years · Boulder, CO · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Mid, but the requirements read as Senior.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $135,669 (middle half $104,979–$172,767). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting targets 'mid- to senior-level' candidates but the requirements (5+ years, MBSE methodologies, DoD acquisition lifecycle) most strongly support a Senior classification; 'Mid' is reflected in the level advertised in the title as the lower bound of the stated range.
An active DoD Secret clearance is the hard gate; TS/SCI is explicitly listed as preferred, not required.
Cameo/MagicDraw and DOORS are listed with 'e.g.' qualifiers, indicating named tools are representative examples of a required capability class — alternatives would include other SysML modeling tools (e.g., Rhapsody) and requirements management tools (e.g., Jama, Polarion) respectively.
MATLAB, STK, and Ansys ModelCenter appear under 'Exposure to digital engineering tools' — framed as familiarity/exposure rather than a hard gate, so treated as preferred.
Familiarity with DoD acquisition lifecycle and systems engineering reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR) is listed as a requirement but names no specific tool or technology, so it is not emitted as a skill.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: MBSE is a systems engineering discipline that sits between 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) and 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other); no single SOC perfectly captures Model-Based Systems Engineering for space/defense programs.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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