Systems Engineer (SETA) Mid Level

Title:

KBR is seeking a Systems Engineer (SETA) to support our customer in Chantilly VA. The Technical Professional (SETA) provides systems engineering and analytical support to help inform national security space this role you will integrate allsource intelligence with engineering analysis modeling and simulation to evaluate foreign space and counterspace capabilities and assess their implications for U.S. and allied space and ground architectures. You will contribute to trade studies mission thread analysis and test and evaluation planning to reduce technical risk for government programs. The position requires close coordination with partners across the Intelligence Community (IC) DoD and mission stakeholders to ensure analytic rigor traceability and alignment with threatinformed requirements and CONOPS. You will produce highquality technical assessments and briefings that support strategy resourcing and operational readiness.

Why Join Us

• Innovative Projects:KBRs work is at the forefront of engineering logistics operations science program management mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment:Join a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

• Impactful Work:Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Key Responsibilities

• Support threatinformed mission engineering activities including endtoend mission thread analysis resiliency assessments and deployment analysis.
• Develop and execute modeling and simulation (M&S) cases using tools such as STK AFSIM or custom Python/MATLAB models to characterize system performance coverage and timelines.
• Translate intelligence on foreign space and counterspace systems into technical requirements measures of performance/effectiveness (MOP/MOE) and risk considerations for architectures and programs.
• Coordinate with stakeholders across customer mission centers Service components USSF/SSC the IC and Combatant Commands to ensure analytic consistency and support decision processes.
• Contribute to test and evaluation planning (developmental and operational) including modeling for test design data sufficiency and evaluation criteria.
• Produce clear technically grounded assessments reports and briefings on space threat systems and their implications for mission assurance and resilience.
• Provide SETA support across the acquisition lifecycle including requirements analysis architecture decomposition integration verification/validation and configuration management.
• Apply analytic standards review methodologies and quality assurance practices to engineering and allsource analytic products.

Work Environment:

• Location: Chantilly Va and Reston VA On-site

• Travel Requirements: Minimal

• Working Hours: Standard 40 hours per week

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 510 years in space defense or IC analysis or systems engineering including exposure to space threat analysis or mission/architecture assessments within the IC/DoD environment.
• Modeling & Simulation: Demonstrated experience using space mission M&S tools (e.g. STK AFSIM or equivalent) to support analytic or engineering tasks.
• Architecture Knowledge: Working understanding of space and ground architectures including interactions among mission ground and user segments.
• Education: Bachelors degree in Engineering Physics Mathematics Computer Science or a related technical field from an accredited institution.
• Clearance an active TS/SCI security clearance with Poly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Degree: M.S. in Engineering Physics Applied Mathematics Operations Research or a related discipline.
• Advanced Methods/Tools: Experience with MBSE (SysML/UML) digital engineering environments or advanced modeling approaches (e.g. Python/MATLAB toolchains Monte Carlo methods).
• Mission/Enterprise Awareness: Familiarity with Intelligence Community and Combatant Command organizations (e.g. NRO NSA NGA USSPACECOM) and understanding of how space and counterspace intelligence informs operational planning and joint mission execution.

Basic Compensation:

$136200 to $151000

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidates knowledge skills abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Additional Compensation:

KBR may offer bonuses commissions or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels per internal policy or contractual designation. Additional compensation may be in the form of a sign-on bonus relocation benefits short-term incentives long-term incentives or discretionary payments for exceptional performance

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