Senior Systems Engineer

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. KBR is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team in El Segundo, CA. The Space Systems Command (SSC) Space Systems Integration Office (SSIO) Science & Engineering Technical Support team is looking for an energetic and innovative Senior Systems Engineer to support the SSC Senior Engineer to focus on developing roadmaps and architectures aligned with future science and technology capabilities. The candidate shall provide systems engineering, architectures, and road mapping support to shape the future of the United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Integration Office enterprise architecture. The candidate shall work side by side with SSC personnel in the performance of engineering tasks applying critical thinking concerning solutions to current threat environments for National Security Space (NSS) customers. Responsibilities include: Provide Systems of Systems (SoS) Engineering Management functionality guided by the SSC Space Superiority Division, ensuring technical oversight of all processes and products supporting the Space Defense Mission. Conduct SoS engineering analysis and provide the “control” of SSC engineering processes to ensure disciplined processes are in place and credible products are being generated within SSC. Perform cross-mission area architecture development through the identification of potential synergies and efficiencies across multiple mission areas based on existing roadmaps and System Program Directorate developed to-be architectures. Evaluate and characterize the known trade-space and ensure requirements mapping of newly developed enterprise-level cross-mission area architectures. Develop candidate architectures that resolve common functions into common/enterprise solutions and reduce the cost associated with acquiring and maintaining multiple systems to achieve the same function. Support defining strategic and operational-level strategy, developing associated architectures, and executing analysis processes to enable risk-informed investment decisions across the NSS enterprise. Apply DoD acquisition and management policies, principles, and instructions. Analyze space enterprise future mission requirements; create technology road mapping, and identify and plan transition opportunities into programs of record and commercialization. Prepare draft briefings, reports, trip reports, or papers as appropriate to document meeting results, discussions, or evaluation results. Location: On-site Travel Requirements: Minimal Working Hours: Standard Qualifications: Required: Active DoD TOP SECRET with SCI eligibility. Fifteen (15+) years’ experience in space systems and national security, with a focus in developing roadmaps and architectures that are clearly aligned with future science and technology capabilities. Understanding of the government systems engineering process for NSS systems. Experience with creation of new NSS technology development projects. Experience with business-case evaluation for NSS vendors. Active participation within the past 12 months in at least one current critical systems engineering, architecting, or road mapping project applicable to NSS with experience in NSS standards. Extensive experience in systems engineering, systems of systems engineering, family of systems engineering, architectures, and road mapping for NSS systems. Demonstrated ability to lead and participate in requirements development as part of the systems engineering, architecting, road mapping, and integration process. Effective interpersonal and team-building skills to engage at both the engineer and management levels. Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (EE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), or equivalent Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Experience with Space Superiority or Space Domain Awareness programs and their associated ground systems. MS Office Suite proficiency. Familiarity with model-based systems engineering tools, such as Cameo or Sparx EA. Experience working with military and other government representatives, FFRDC (e.g. Aerospace) representatives, and SMC’s prime contractors, sub-contractors, and vendors. DOD program office experience with understanding of DoD acquisition process and compliance with government instructions. Experience with technical mentorship. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Basic Compensation: $175,000 - $200,000. This salary range is for California only. The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity. KBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels, per internal policy or contractual designation. Additional compensation may be in the form of sign-on bonus, relocation benefits, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance. KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D

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