Space Systems Engineer & Threat Analysis Specialist

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

Job summary

KBR is seeking a Systems Engineer Technical Analyst (SETA) to provide systems engineering and all-source analysis supporting national security space decisions. You will integrate intelligence with engineering analyses, run M&S cases, and contribute to trade studies and test plans to reduce technical risk for government programs.

Location: Chantilly/Reston on-site with IC/DoD collaboration. Requires TS/SCI with CI Poly and 5–10 years of relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in space, defense, or IC analysis or systems engineering, including space threat analysis or mission/architecture assessments within the IC/DoD environment.
• Demonstrated experience using space mission M&S tools (e.g., STK, AFSIM, or equivalent) to support 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 related technical field.

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

Mission engineering

Systems engineering

Modeling & simulation

STK/AFSIM

Python/MATLAB

IC/DoD experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Physics/Math/CS

Tools

STK

AFSIM

Python

MATLAB

Job description

KBR is seeking a Systems Engineer Technical Analyst (SETA) to provide systems engineering and all-source analysis supporting national security space decisions. You will integrate intelligence with engineering analyses, run M&S cases, and contribute to trade studies and test plans to reduce technical risk for government programs.

Location: Chantilly/Reston on-site with IC/DoD collaboration. Requires TS/SCI with CI Poly and 5–10 years of relevant experience.