Jr. Systems Engineer

KBR • Chantilly, VA

11d • $96,000 - $116,000

About The Position

KBR is seeking a highly motivated Junior Systems Engineer to support the Customer’s SIGINT office and help address future intelligence collection challenges with innovative solutions. The successful candidate understands mission needs and can help overcome development and operations limitations of current systems while guiding changes to how the Customer conducts its mission.

This technical/engineering professional performs system- or enterprise-level systems engineering across the life cycle of complex space systems acquisition processes. The engineer advises on and helps manage systems engineering processes and implementation for a System Program Office (SPO)-developed collection system, including the space vehicle, payloads, and associated ground command and control elements. The position supports the SPO in acquisition, verification and validation, and initialization of current programs, and includes requirements management, interface definition, customer engagement, and proposal technical evaluation support.

The role manages configuration baselines and related review and control processes, prepares change documentation, assesses impacts to capabilities and interfaces, and coordinates review schedules with the government customer. Candidates joining KBR’s Mission Technology Solutions business before its planned spin-off are expected to transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete and will not need to reapply.

Requirements

• Active/current TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or a related discipline.
• Understanding of DoD/IC satellite systems and architectures.
• Experience in DoD/IC space systems acquisition, sustainment, and program management processes.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in an engineering discipline or systems engineering.
• Experience with the JSMART tool suite.
• Understanding of acquisition and operations technology best practices.
• Technical and analytical capabilities in systems engineering focused on baseline control.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, team-building, and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to work independently and effectively in a government/contractor team environment.
• Ability to clearly articulate requirements definitions and their dispositions to senior executive government leadership.
• Exposure to the system design trade process, assessing system design options, analyzing mission requirements, monitoring vehicle development, test development and execution, and tracking requirement verification.

Responsibilities

• Manage the configuration baseline by overseeing configuration control boards, engineering review boards, technical review boards, and other control mechanisms.
• Establish rigorous processes to document baseline configurations and manage architectural and process changes in support of the chief engineer.
• Prepare deviations, waivers, and requests for change (RFCs) for government approval when specifications cannot be met.
• Submit engineering changes to customers for review and approval, maintain records, and submit status reports.
• Identify and assess impacts of new capabilities, including impacts across internal and external interfaces.
• Prepare configuration verification audit record sheets for all programs.
• Coordinate review schedules and timelines with the government customer.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level