TS/SCI Sr. Lead Systems Engineer V at Insight Global
Englewood, CO
$105,890–$189,545from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Englewood, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior leadership role on a space systems engineering team, responsible for guiding the design, integration, and verification of space, ground, and launch systems. The position combines hands-on technical work — producing architecture documents, requirements, CONOPS, trade studies, and MBSE artifacts — with team supervision, IPT leadership, and cost/schedule management. Suited to an experienced systems engineer with a background in aerospace or DoD programs and an active Top Secret clearance.
Senior level · 8+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance
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Why we read it this way (7)
The posting lists 'Active Top Secret clearance' as a hard requirement and 'TS/SCI clearance' as a separate bullet — the former is in the required block and the latter appears to be an aspirational upgrade; TS/SCI is marked preferred accordingly.
The role title 'Sr. Lead Systems Engineer V' and the supervisory/mentoring duties create genuine ambiguity between a senior individual-contributor systems engineer (15-1299) and a people-manager (11-3021). The posting emphasizes hands-on technical contribution alongside team leadership, so 15-1299 is the primary classification with 11-3021 as the runner-up.
The salary range appears to include a redundant 'k' suffix in the posting ('$105,890-$189,545k'); the figures have been captured as stated in dollars, treating the trailing 'k' as a typo.
Specific tools (Cameo/MagicDraw, DOORS, Jira, Confluence, IMS) and space systems experience appear under a secondary 'nice to have' style block and are marked preferred.
This posting is placed by a staffing firm (Insight Global); the actual employer is described as 'a leading aerospace and defense client.' Employment type is unspecified as the posting does not explicitly state full-time vs. contract.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): systems engineering, requirements management.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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