Engineering Design Manager Jobs in Colorado
Engineering Design Manager jobs in Colorado are concentrated in aerospace and defense, advanced manufacturing, and energy systems, with strong demand in mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering disciplines. Denver, Colorado Springs, and Boulder anchor most of the hiring, where established employers like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Intelligence and Space, and Ball Aerospace maintain major engineering operations. Openings range from senior individual contributors stepping into leadership to seasoned managers overseeing multidisciplinary design teams. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Standard Job Description
Join us as a Circuit Design Engineering Associate Manager and become a member of the US Navy's Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) D5 Life Extension 2 (D5LE2) Avionics team.
Location: This position does not support teleworking; the preferred candidate will be located near our Lockheed Martin Space facility one of the Coolest places to work: Littleton CO, and be expected to work in the office.
Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security, and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire, and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.
At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity. Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.
What does this role look like?
The FBM Program is experiencing significant growth, and we need your expertise to deliver amazing new technologies to our customers while maintaining the technical requirements of the strategic deterrence.
As a Circuit Design Engineering Associate Manager, you will lead the development of Avionics Packages for the Initiation and Preset Subsystem for the D5LE2 Trident II Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile.
Key activities you will accomplish in this role:
- Provide leadership on a fast-paced team from requirements through development and production.
- Be responsible to assure coordination between functional groups during the product development life cycle.
- Communicate technical status and issues internally to program leadership, technical leadership and functional leadership as well as externally to the customer.
- Conducting personnel management for a portion of the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Tactical Avionics team
- Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection, and training.
- Responsible for performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions.
- Participate in technical reviews and audits.
To be effective in this role, you will need:
- Project leadership experience in electronics hardware design with a track record of success in meeting technical, schedule, and cost objectives.
- 5+ years of professional experience.
- Active DoD Secret clearance (or equivalent), thus US Citizenship is required.
Standard Job Description:
Manages the design and development of circuits used in electronic devices. Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions. Directs layout and mask design, device evaluation and characterization, test box design, prototype construction and checkout, and determination of wafer fabrication processes. Responsible for the preparation of test methods and specifications; analyses of equipment to establish operating data and conducting experimental tests.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science or higher from an accredited college in Electrical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.
- Electronics hardware design, development and test experience of avionics electronics, at the circuit card and unit level.
- Project leadership in electronics hardware design.
- Experience in the development including product ownership responsibility for missile, space, or equivalent high reliability applications
- For this position, an active DOD Secret clearance or higher is required to be considered, thus US Citizenship is required.
Desired Skills
- Experience with a combination of design, test, operations and systems engineering disciplines.
- Demonstrated good communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex technical issues to peers, management, subcontractors and customers.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative team environment and to build consensus among peers and effective relationships with team members.
- Demonstrated strong problem solving and conflict resolution skills.
- Adaptable to new situations and demonstrate self-initiative in solving complex problems.
- Able to work effectively in a diverse team environment.
- Demonstrated experience with Avionics Architecture (physical / functional).
- Understanding of analog and digital circuit design and analysis.
- Ability to interpret and create electrical schematics.
- Aerospace experience supporting development of Flight Hardware.
- Certified Principal Engineer (CPE) or Responsible Systems Engineering (RSE) experience.
- Missile System design experience.
- Supply chain technical oversight experience including proposal support and technical evaluations.
- Demonstrated experience with electronics packaging.
- Demonstrated excellent written and oral communications skills are required, with an ability to address diverse audiences, such as customer reviews, management meetings, etc.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $135700.00 - $251900.00
At Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow—both professionally and personally.
The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
Standard Job Description
Join us as a Circuit Design Engineering Associate Manager and become a member of the US Navy's Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) D5 Life Extension 2 (D5LE2) Avionics team.
Location: This position does not support teleworking; the preferred candidate will be located near our Lockheed Martin Space facility one of the Coolest places to work: Littleton CO, and be expected to work in the office.
Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security, and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire, and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.
At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity. Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.
What does this role look like?
The FBM Program is experiencing significant growth, and we need your expertise to deliver amazing new technologies to our customers while maintaining the technical requirements of the strategic deterrence.
As a Circuit Design Engineering Associate Manager, you will lead the development of Avionics Packages for the Initiation and Preset Subsystem for the D5LE2 Trident II Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile.
Key activities you will accomplish in this role:
- Provide leadership on a fast-paced team from requirements through development and production.
- Be responsible to assure coordination between functional groups during the product development life cycle.
- Communicate technical status and issues internally to program leadership, technical leadership and functional leadership as well as externally to the customer.
- Conducting personnel management for a portion of the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Tactical Avionics team
- Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection, and training.
- Responsible for performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions.
- Participate in technical reviews and audits.
To be effective in this role, you will need:
- Project leadership experience in electronics hardware design with a track record of success in meeting technical, schedule, and cost objectives.
- 5+ years of professional experience.
- Active DoD Secret clearance (or equivalent), thus US Citizenship is required.
Standard Job Description:
Manages the design and development of circuits used in electronic devices. Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions. Directs layout and mask design, device evaluation and characterization, test box design, prototype construction and checkout, and determination of wafer fabrication processes. Responsible for the preparation of test methods and specifications; analyses of equipment to establish operating data and conducting experimental tests.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science or higher from an accredited college in Electrical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.
- Electronics hardware design, development and test experience of avionics electronics, at the circuit card and unit level.
- Project leadership in electronics hardware design.
- Experience in the development including product ownership responsibility for missile, space, or equivalent high reliability applications
- For this position, an active DOD Secret clearance or higher is required to be considered, thus US Citizenship is required.
Desired Skills
- Experience with a combination of design, test, operations and systems engineering disciplines.
- Demonstrated good communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex technical issues to peers, management, subcontractors and customers.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative team environment and to build consensus among peers and effective relationships with team members.
- Demonstrated strong problem solving and conflict resolution skills.
- Adaptable to new situations and demonstrate self-initiative in solving complex problems.
- Able to work effectively in a diverse team environment.
- Demonstrated experience with Avionics Architecture (physical / functional).
- Understanding of analog and digital circuit design and analysis.
- Ability to interpret and create electrical schematics.
- Aerospace experience supporting development of Flight Hardware.
- Certified Principal Engineer (CPE) or Responsible Systems Engineering (RSE) experience.
- Missile System design experience.
- Supply chain technical oversight experience including proposal support and technical evaluations.
- Demonstrated experience with electronics packaging.
- Demonstrated excellent written and oral communications skills are required, with an ability to address diverse audiences, such as customer reviews, management meetings, etc.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $135700.00 - $251900.00
At Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow—both professionally and personally.
The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
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What Colorado Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in engineering design manager jobs across Colorado.
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering required by most Colorado employers
- Professional Engineer registration in Colorado preferred for roles involving stamped design deliverables
- Seven or more years of engineering experience with at least three in a leadership or supervisory role
- Demonstrated experience managing full product development lifecycles from concept through production release
- Proficiency with CAD platforms such as CATIA, SolidWorks, or Creo and PLM systems
- Experience with government or defense program management standards preferred for Colorado Springs and Denver employers
Engineering Design Manager Jobs in Colorado: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a engineering design manager in Colorado?
Most engineering design managers in Colorado follow a path starting with a bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline, followed by several years of hands-on design or systems work before moving into team leadership. While Colorado does not require a management-specific license, many employers in aerospace and defense prefer candidates who hold or are pursuing Professional Engineer licensure through the Colorado State Board of Licensure for Architects, Professional Engineers, and Professional Land Surveyors. Building a portfolio of cross-functional project leadership strengthens candidacy considerably.
Which companies hire engineering design managers in Colorado?
Employers hiring engineering design managers in Colorado right now include Lockheed Martin, Olsson, and Benesch, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Colorado's aerospace corridor along the Front Range means defense contractors and space systems companies represent a particularly consistent share of engineering design manager openings.
Which Colorado cities have the most engineering design manager jobs?
Denver, Littleton, and Golden have the most engineering design manager openings in Colorado. Denver draws the broadest volume across aerospace, energy, and advanced manufacturing, while Colorado Springs reflects the concentration of defense contractors and military installations in that region, and Boulder's research and space technology sector adds consistent demand outside the two larger metros.
Are there remote engineering design manager jobs in Colorado?
Yes, but they're less common than in purely desk-based fields. About 100% of engineering design manager openings tied to Colorado are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-on coordination these roles typically require with design teams, labs, and production floors. The portions of the role most amenable to remote work are design review, project planning, and stakeholder reporting rather than day-to-day team supervision.
How can I get hired as a engineering design manager in Colorado with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is securing a senior individual contributor role at a Colorado aerospace or manufacturing employer and building a record of leading projects informally before moving into a formal management title. Large Colorado employers like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon often post senior engineer roles that include team coordination responsibilities, which function as proving grounds for design manager candidates. Obtaining an Engineer-in-Training designation through Colorado's licensing board and completing a project management credential signals readiness for leadership and distinguishes candidates without prior management titles.
Where can I find and apply to engineering design manager jobs in Colorado?
You can find and apply to engineering design manager jobs in Colorado on Migrate Mate, which lists current Colorado openings across aerospace, defense, manufacturing, and energy sectors. Find roles that fit your background and apply directly to the ones that match.
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