Space Systems Engineer & Analyst — Threat & Mission Lead

KBR, Inc; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR is seeking a Systems Engineer Technical Analyst (SETA) in Chantilly/Reston, VA on-site to support threat-informed mission engineering and systems analysis for space programs.

You will integrate all-source intelligence with engineering analysis, develop M&S cases, and translate intelligence into technical requirements while coordinating with IC/DoD stakeholders. A TS/SCI clearance is required.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years in space, defense, or IC analysis or systems engineering.
• Experience with space mission M&S tools (STK, AFSIM, or equivalent).
• Understanding of space and ground architectures.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, CS or related field.
• U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance with CI 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 (M&S) 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/effectiveness (MOP/MOE), and risk considerations for architectures and programs.
• Coordinate with stakeholders across customer mission centers, Service components, USSF/SSC, the IC, and Combatant Commands to ensure analytic consistency and support decision processes.
• Contribute to test and evaluation planning (developmental and operational), 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.
• Apply analytic standards, review methodologies, and quality assurance practices to engineering and all-source analytic products.

Skills

Systems engineering

Threat-informed analysis

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science

TS/SCI clearance

Tools

STK

AFSIM

Python

MATLAB

Job description

KBR is seeking a Systems Engineer Technical Analyst (SETA) in Chantilly/Reston, VA on-site to support threat-informed mission engineering and systems analysis for space programs.

You will integrate all-source intelligence with engineering analysis, develop M&S cases, and translate intelligence into technical requirements while coordinating with IC/DoD stakeholders. A TS/SCI clearance is required.