2027 PhD Graduate - Reliability Engineer System Realization and Resilience Group

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory•Laurel, MD

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Are you passionate about applying reliability and system engineering principles to analyze and assess the resilience of future strategic weapon systems? Do you have a strong technical background and interest in reliability engineering, safety engineering, or related experience in leading and evaluating the reliability, availability, maintainability (RAM) and resilience of weapon systems for national defense? Are you motivated by working on multidisciplinary teams solving some of the nation’s highest-priority security challenges? If so, we are looking for someone like you to join the Reliability and Sustainment Engineering Team in the System Realization and Resilience Group (KBR) within the Force Projection Sector. Our team is responsible for enabling the realization of strategic systems, ensuring resilience and specialty disciplines are integrated throughout system development, and supporting credible verification of strategic weapon systems. We lead efforts in systems engineering, system security engineering, test and integration, digital engineering, nuclear command and control, and reliability engineering. As a member of our team, you will provide subject matter expertise to inform reliability strategies, methodologies, and assessments of existing and future strategic weapons systems. We are passionate about making critical contributions to these critically important programs, and you will be a key part of our success. With your help, we will remain at the forefront of weapon systems engineering for the Force Projection Sector.

Requirements

PhD, or PhD to be awarded soon, in Engineering, mathematics, physics or related technical field.
Academic or relevant experience performing Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) engineering in the design, development or evaluation of critical systems.
Experience in crafting and applying reliability approaches (e.g. FMEA, FMECA, Reliability Block Diagrams, Fault Tree Analysis, Probabilistic Risk Assessment and so forth) to quantify risk and inform program decisions in early concept development, acquisition, requirements analysis, building, test and evaluation, and sustainment.
Knowledge in developing and allocating RAM requirements based on assessment of mission needs in relation to the end user Concept of Operations.
Especially strong verbal and written communication skills, as well as strong critical thinking skills.
Shown ability to interact effectively with and lead multidisciplinary teams.
Willing and able to travel periodically, including short duration visits to sponsors and stakeholder sites locally as well as to locations outside of the state.
Hold an active Secret security clearance and are able to get a Top Secret clearance. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience applying reliability engineering for Navy and/or Air Force strategic weapon systems.
Understanding of Department of War (DoW) acquisition lifecycle for supporting RAM activities.
Familiarity with reliability and statistical engineering software tools such as Reliasoft, Windchill, Saphire, MADe, JMP, R, SAS, and so forth.
Experience developing reliability tools and analysis through code development (R, Matlab, Python, SAS, etc.).
Experience applying Bayesian techniques to data analysis for prediction, planning, and evaluation purposes.
Experience with Software Reliability analysis and implementation of best practices for ensuring highly reliable and available code.
Familiarity with systems engineering software, especially model based systems engineering tools like CAMEO, and DOORS.
Hold an active Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

Provide reliability engineering expertise and thought leadership for several strategic deterrence programs.
Participate as a reliability engineer on various projects, studies, and technical working groups focusing on requirements development, analysis, concept/technology development, acquisition, risk assessments, test planning and system evaluation.
Develop reliability methodologies and analyses to inform and assess the performance and capabilities of existing and future strategic deterrence weapon systems.
Deliver formal presentations to sponsors and supporting contractors, and effectively communicate proposed concepts/solutions and analysis results.
Produce reports that bring together concept definitions, requirements, analysis results, and technical recommendations.
Identify risk areas to project and program leaders with recommended mitigation strategies that are cost and schedule effective to meet the needs of the program.