Fiber Test Engineer
About The Position
KBR's National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. We are seeking a Fiber Test Engineer to support the MIT LL team. Why Join Us? Innovative Projects: Enable critically important communications over vast distances by being the team member to innovate and overcome technical challenges as we spearhead new solutions through advanced prototyping. Collaborative Environment: Come join a team of enthusiastic engineers engaged in creating the next generation of cutting-edge laser communication systems technology. Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense and/or defense.
Requirements
- Active DoD Secret clearance
- Bachelor of Science
- 5 years of applicable experience
- Fiber splicing
- Fiber routing and handling
- Fiber equipment / component characterization and calibration
- Power in fiber measurement to support compliance with component specifications
- Familiarity with a diverse set of lab test equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, waveform generators, power meters, attenuators, switches, spectrum analyzers, etc.)
- Instrumentation skills
- Optical amplifier experience (high power)
- Ability to perform experimental arrangement debugging
- Experience performing data analysis and generating reports
- Experience with MATLAB
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with designing GUIs for instrumentation (e.g., MATLAB App Designer)
- Familiarity with coding languages beyond Matlab (e.g., Python)
- Solidworks knowledge
- Signals and Systems knowledge
- Experience with optical communications systems and standards
- Experience with pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) techniques for free-space optical communications systems
Responsibilities
- Fiber handling, routing, organization in lab spaces
- Test equipment and infrastructure repair / replacement
- Test equipment and infrastructure configuration
- Setup / Debugging / Calibrating Arbitrary Waveform Generator operation
- Procedure Writing and Redlining
- Generating Documentation and Diagrams
- General / Test Event support for Comm and/or PAT
Benefits
- Zero Harm culture
- People First company
- team of team’s philosophy
- environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
