Senior Configuration Engineer

Ursa Major
Berthoud, Colorado
Posted 1 months ago
Posted 26 August 2026
full-time

About the Role

 

The future of aerospace and defense starts here. 


Ursa Major was founded to revolutionize how America and its allies access and apply high-performance propulsion, from hypersonics to solid rocket motors, satellite maneuvering and launch. We design and deliver propulsion and defense systems that solve the most urgent and critical national security demands. 

The Senior Configuration Engineer is a key role that ensures the accuracy and detail of hardware configurations for all hardware programs across both engineering and manufacturing. This role will interface closely with all engineering functional groups, the manufacturing team, and program management to ensure that our products are properly configured, documented, and can cleanly integrate with all customer applications. This role will also support ongoing design efforts related to manufacturability and general hardware optimization. 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Ownership and configuration management of system CAD models in both development and production environments, maintaining accuracy of eBOM, product structure, and assembly configurations including Ursa Major designed and COTS components 
  • Definition of clear communication process between design, manufacturing, and test operations to ensure consistent configuration management of products through all hardware stages supporting Test, Manufacturing, and Shipment of hardware 
  • Incorporation of Design for Manufacturing (DFM) feedback from the manufacturing team 
  • Work with manufacturing team to ensure system model is sufficient to ensure accurate and up-to-date build Work Instructions 
  • Consistent delivery of eBOM to the manufacturing team in intervals that best support development or production efforts based on engineering change 
  • Development of Technical Data Packages for customer delivery 
  • Develop and guide methodology of Digital Engineering and Model Based Engineering approaches 
  • Management, constraining, and modeling support of assemblies consisting of multiple subassemblies, wiring harnesses, and ratification against customer mechanical interface control documents and requirements 
  • Interfacing capability, and collaboration with engineering groups such as Systems Engineering, Design, Manufacturing, Quality, and Chief Engineering teams 

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