Mid Space Systems Engineer — Threat Analysis & M&S

Trinzic; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 156,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR in Chantilly, VA is seeking a SETA Systems Engineer (Mid) to support national security space decisions by integrating intelligence with engineering analysis, modelling, and simulation to evaluate foreign capabilities and assess implications for U.S. space and ground architectures.

You will work on trade studies, mission thread analysis, and test and evaluation planning to reduce technical risk, coordinating with IC, DoD, and mission stakeholders to ensure analytic rigor and traceability.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in space, defense, or IC analysis or systems engineering.
• Experience with space mission M&S tools (STK/AFSIM or equivalents).
• Understanding of space and ground architectures and interactions.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field from an accredited institution.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with Poly.

Responsibilities

• Support threat-informed mission engineering activities, 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 Python/MATLAB models to characterize performance, coverage, and timelines.
• Translate intelligence on foreign space and counterspace systems into technical requirements, measures of performance/effectiveness, and risk considerations for architectures.
• Coordinate with stakeholders across customer mission centers, USSF/SSC, the IC, and Combatant Commands to ensure analytic consistency and support decision processes.
• Contribute to test and evaluation planning, including modeling for test design, data sufficiency, and evaluation criteria.
• Produce clear, technically grounded 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/validation, and configuration management.

Skills

Systems engineering

Threat analysis

Modeling & Simulation

Space systems

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Physics

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

STK

AFSIM

Python

MATLAB

SysML/UML

Job description

KBR in Chantilly, VA is seeking a SETA Systems Engineer (Mid) to support national security space decisions by integrating intelligence with engineering analysis, modelling, and simulation to evaluate foreign capabilities and assess implications for U.S. space and ground architectures.

You will work on trade studies, mission thread analysis, and test and evaluation planning to reduce technical risk, coordinating with IC, DoD, and mission stakeholders to ensure analytic rigor and traceability.