SETA Systems Engineer (Mid)
About The Position
KBR is seeking a Systems Engineer (SETA) to support a customer in Chantilly and Reston, Virginia. The role provides systems engineering and analytical support for national security space decisions. It integrates all-source 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. The engineer contributes to trade studies, mission thread analysis, and test and evaluation planning to reduce technical risk for government programs. The position coordinates with partners across the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and mission stakeholders, and produces technical assessments and briefings that support strategy, resourcing, and operational readiness. The role supports threat-informed mission engineering, including end-to-end mission thread analysis, resiliency assessments, deployment analysis, and modeling and simulation of system performance, coverage, and timelines. It also provides SETA support across the acquisition lifecycle, from requirements analysis and architecture decomposition through integration, verification and validation, and configuration management. The position is on-site in Chantilly and Reston, Virginia, with minimal travel and standard 40-hour work weeks. Candidates joining KBR’s Mission Technology Solutions business before its planned spin-off are expected to transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete without needing to reapply.
Requirements
- 5–10 years of experience in space, defense, or Intelligence Community analysis or systems engineering, including exposure to space threat analysis or mission/architecture assessments in an IC/DoD environment.
- Demonstrated experience using space mission modeling and simulation tools such as STK, AFSIM, or equivalent for analytic or engineering tasks.
- Working understanding of space and ground architectures, including interactions among mission, ground, and user segments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related technical field from an accredited institution.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with Poly.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related discipline.
- Experience with MBSE (SysML/UML), digital engineering environments, or advanced modeling approaches such as Python/MATLAB toolchains and Monte Carlo methods.
- Familiarity with Intelligence Community and Combatant Command organizations, such as NRO, NSA, NGA, and USSPACECOM, and understanding of how space and counterspace intelligence informs operational planning and joint mission execution.
Responsibilities
- Support threat-informed mission engineering, including end-to-end mission thread analysis, resiliency assessments, and deployment analysis.
- Develop and execute modeling and simulation 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 and effectiveness, and risk considerations for architectures and programs.
- Coordinate with customer mission centers, Service components, USSF/SSC, the Intelligence Community, and Combatant Commands to support analytic consistency and decision processes.
- Contribute to developmental and operational test and evaluation planning, including modeling for test design, data sufficiency, and evaluation criteria.
- Produce technical 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 and validation, and configuration management.
- Apply analytic standards, review methodologies, and quality assurance practices to engineering and all-source analytic products.
Benefits
- Potential additional compensation, which may include a sign-on bonus, relocation benefits, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
