Aerospace Engineer (Astrodynamics) - Military veterans preferred

Aerospace Engineer (Astrodynamics)

Location HI - Kihei

Req # 5773

Minimum Clearance Required Clearance Eligibility

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.

We are seeking an Aerospace Engineer (Astrodynamics) professional to join our Astrodynamics team to support modeling and simulation and astrodynamics software development. The ideal candidate must have experience coding orbit propagation and estimation algorithms and performing research in space domain awareness.

Description/Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated initiative and strong ownership of deliverables.
• Ability to understand orbital mechanics, to include propagation, propulsion, and error estimation to solve a variety of aerospace engineering problems.
• Ability to model sensor measurements and perform and analyze orbit determination.
• Ability to quickly learn new sensor phenomenology for experimental applications.
• Ability to design engineering experiments for the purpose of understanding system design impacts or identifying optimal parameter settings.
• Ability to explain and effectively communicate complex engineering analyses and studies to government and corporate management.
• Ability to establish a plan for a project and to accomplish goals embodied by the plan.
• Ability to contribute to team efforts or to operate completely independently.?

Required Qualifications:

• At a minimum, a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or other related fields.
• 3 to 15 years of experience performing astrodynamics algorithm development, modeling, and simulation.

Desired:

• Background in space domain awareness is desired.
• Experience developing software in Matlab and C++ Statistics background
• Applicants selected may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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.