2020-03-19
Kellogg Brown & Root (www.kbrjobs.com)
Other
/yr
full-time
employee
Dayton
Ohio
45410
United States
Title:
Technical Advisor Software Engineering
KBR is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join team located in Dayton, Ohio. The individual will work with a team of electrical engineers, material scientists, physicists, and other software engineers to support KBRwyle’s fully automated Eddy Current Inspection Station (ECIS). The ECIS is the premier inspection system of the United States Air Force with over thirty systems utilized at the engine overhaul depot at Tinker AFB with others located in Dayton and at allied countries worldwide. The ECIS is a mission critical system designed to detect defects on fracture critical components in gas turbine engines on the F-15, F-16, F-22, and F-35 fighter aircraft thereby extending the their life saving the United States extensive maintenance costs.
Job assignments will include maintaining and expanding the capability of the ECIS Station Executive software to allow for hardware enhancements in addition to supporting inspection developments.
The station software is a multi-threaded program that administers commands to system hardware devices for data collection and then interprets that data utilizing sophisticated processing techniques for the presence of flaw indications embedded within geometry signals. This position provides an opportunity for continuous challenges in problem solving to achieve the ever pressing expansion of inspection requirements to meet higher performance engine inspection requirements. Throughout its thirty year lifecycle the ECIS has undergone numerous expansions and upgrades with a recent modification to rewrite the station executive software utilizing object oriented programming design structure. The new design structure and added offline test capabilities position KBRwyle to make substantial upgrades in many system improvements such as algorithms for flaw characterization, enhanced graphical display of inspection results and online system diagnostics.
Further responsibilities will be to support the ECIS Server Software and Flaw Reporting Database, including development of data analytics algorithms and tools to extract and organize information from prior inspection data.
Required Skills and Experience
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40KBR is a global provider of differentiated professional services and technologies across the asset and program lifecycle within the Government Solutions and Energy sectors. KBR employs approximately 38,000 people worldwide (including our joint ventures), with customers in more than 80 countries, and operations in 40 countries, across three synergistic global businesses:
Government Solutions , serving government customers globally, including capabilities that cover the full lifecycle of defense, space, aviation and other government programs and missions from research and development, through systems engineering, test and evaluation, program management, to operations, maintenance, and field logistics
Technology Solutions , featuring proprietary technology, equipment, catalysts, digital solutions and related technical services for the monetization of hydrocarbons, including refining, petrochemicals, ammonia and specialty chemicals, as well as inorganics
Energy Solutions , including onshore oil and gas; LNG (liquefaction and regasification)/GTL; oil refining; petrochemicals; chemicals; fertilizers; differentiated EPC; maintenance services (Brown & Root Industrial Services); offshore oil and gas (shallow-water, deep-water, subsea); floating solutions (FPU, FPSO, FLNG & FSRU); program management and consulting services
KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, integrated EPC delivery and long term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver .