Space Systems Engineer - Threat Analysis (Mid)

KBR, Inc.; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Innovative projects

Collaborative environment

Impactful work

Job summary

KBR, Inc. in Chantilly, VA, seeks a mid‑level Systems Engineer (SETA) to support a national security space client. You will integrate all‑source intelligence with engineering analysis, modeling, and simulation to evaluate space and counterspace capabilities and inform CONOPS and mission designs.

You will coordinate with the IC, DoD, and mission stakeholders to ensure analytic rigor, produce assessments and briefings, and provide SETA support across the acquisition lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in space, defense, or IC analysis or systems engineering.
• Experience with space mission M&S tools (STK/AFSIM) to support analytic tasks.
• Understanding of space and ground architectures.

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

Space/defense analysis

M&S modeling

Education

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

Tools

STK

AFSIM

Python

MATLAB

Job description

KBR, Inc. in Chantilly, VA, seeks a mid‑level Systems Engineer (SETA) to support a national security space client. You will integrate all‑source intelligence with engineering analysis, modeling, and simulation to evaluate space and counterspace capabilities and inform CONOPS and mission designs.

You will coordinate with the IC, DoD, and mission stakeholders to ensure analytic rigor, produce assessments and briefings, and provide SETA support across the acquisition lifecycle.