Title:
Systems Engineer
KBR is seeking a Systems Engineer to provide systems engineering and technical advisory services at Springfield, VA. The successful candidate will:
- Provide technical leadership for the integration of mission systems
- Responsible for system engineering and technical execution of projects that cover hardware/software system development, test and final integration on customer platforms.
- Conducts technical reviews and assessments of program development and readiness activities. Coordinates recommendations with government stakeholders and supports program status reviews.
- Provide program management experience for new capabilities, evaluates technologies, schedules, milestones, while balancing local and enterprise impacts across the organization.
- Analyze user needs, concept of operations (CONOPS), and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements
- Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies
- Collaborate with SETA team members, development contractors, and customer forums
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with engineers from various contractors and government organizations
- Develop assessments and briefings for a variety of audiences, must be able to convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors of Science degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) or relevant field required
- 9 years' technical experience
- Direct and current experience with National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
- Top Secret/SCI clearance with CI Poly
- Knowledge of GEOINT and/or SIGINT overall space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions
- Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission
- Experience with CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development
- Experience with mission readiness process, familiar with control gates and associated documentation, entry/exit criteria
- Experience in mission operations environment - ops tempo, launch and initialization, performance characterization, utility analysis, system calibrations
- Experience in requirements definition, analysis and engineering, systems and data architecture, system analysis and design, systems development, validation and verification
- Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
- Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment
- Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
- Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project
Desired Qualifications
- Familiar with MBSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.