Systems Engineer - Military veterans preferred

Systems Engineer

Location AL - Huntsville

Req # 5646

Minimum Clearance Required Secret

Thank you for your interest in joining the KBR team. Together, we can leverage the next generation of advanced technologies to deliver industry-leading capabilities across land, air, sea, space, and cyberspace. Our goal is to deliver innovative solutions using an agile, mission-first approach to address the most difficult technical challenges facing our customers. The only way that we can tackle these challenges is by recruiting the brightest minds in the industry to join our team.

Overview:

The Directed Energy Weapons Department is seeking a systems engineer with experience working on directed energy (DE) laser weapon or similar systems. The ideal candidate possesses the ability to work both independently and as part of a team, with strong written and verbal communication and proficiency in analytical skills. The individual is also a motivated self-starter, and participant in professional and community activities. The ideal candidate will be technically sound and committed to innovative, cost-effective solutions for DE laser system development. The candidate will work with other engineers to support the design, development, integration, and verification of laser systems. Duties will include: developing DE system requirements; modeling, preparation, assembly, troubleshooting, installation and checkout; and test data reduction and analysis. The candidate will be an organized, objective, balanced decision maker, who supports technical reviews; diagnoses technical issues, and implements effective solutions.

Experience requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience
• Experience in the development, integration, test and production
• Hands on persons, willing to work in a laboratory or field environment
• Develop systems specifications, tolerances, and tests and have an appreciation of safety aspects and requirements of High Energy Laser systems
• Demonstrated ability to work well as a part of a diverse team
• Demonstrated experience with working in a collaborative and dynamic team environment with aggressive program schedules among multiple organizations
• Must be able to effectively communicate
• Ability to travel and work at government test facilities for periodic time frames
• An active, or ability to obtain, U.S. Security Clearance.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in physics, engineering, or related field

Desired Skills:

• Systems Experience with:
• EOIR Sensors
• Laser systems
• Power Systems
• Thermal Systems
• Ability to research and develop advanced laser concepts, power & thermal management
• Perform end-to-end kill chain analysis
• Experience with control systems for beam direction and auto alignment
• Experience with requirements development, decomposition, and tracing using requirements management tools
• Hands on experience with design, integration & test of laser weapon systems (greater than 5kW output)

KBR is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other factor protected by law.