SETA Systems Engineer (Mid)
About The Position
KBR is seeking a Systems Engineer (SETA) to provide systems engineering and analytical support to a customer, informing national security space decisions. The role 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, coordinating with partners across the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and mission stakeholders. The role produces technical assessments and briefings that support strategy, resourcing, and operational readiness. The position supports threat-informed mission engineering, modeling and simulation, translation of intelligence into engineering requirements and risk considerations, stakeholder coordination, test and evaluation, and SETA support throughout the acquisition lifecycle. Work is performed on a standard 40-hour-per-week schedule, with minimal travel. KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business is planned to spin off as Trinzic in January 2027. Employees who join the business before the 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 within 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 polygraph.
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 or 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 stakeholders across customer mission centers, Service components, USSF/SSC, the Intelligence Community, and Combatant Commands to ensure analytic consistency and support 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
- KBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of additional compensation for certain job titles or levels, potentially including sign-on bonuses, 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
