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In this role, you will integrate all-source intelligence with engineering analysis, modeling, and simulation to evaluate foreign space and counterspace capabilities and assess their implications for U.S. and allied space and ground architectures. You will contribute to trade studies, mission thread analysis, and test and evaluation planning to reduce technical risk for government programs. The position requires close coordination with partners across the Intelligence Community (IC), DoD, and mission stakeholders to ensure analytic rigor, traceability, and alignment with threat-informed requirements and CONOPS. You will produce high-quality technical assessments and briefings that support strategy, resourcing, and operational readiness.\nWhy Join Us?\nInnovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.\n\nCollaborative Environment: Join a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.\n\nImpactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nSupport threat-informed mission engineering activities, including end-to-end mission thread analysis, resiliency assessments, and deployment analysis.\nDevelop 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.\nTranslate intelligence on foreign space and counterspace systems into technical requirements, measures of performance/effectiveness (MOP/MOE), and risk considerations for architectures and programs.\nCoordinate with stakeholders across customer mission centers, Service components, USSF/SSC, the IC, and Combatant Commands to ensure analytic consistency and support decision processes.\nContribute to test and evaluation planning (developmental and operational), including modeling for test design, data sufficiency, and evaluation criteria.\nProduce clear, technically grounded assessments, reports, and briefings on space threat systems and their implications for mission assurance and resilience.\nProvide SETA support across the acquisition lifecycle, including requirements analysis, architecture decomposition, integration, verification/validation, and configuration management.\nApply analytic standards, review methodologies, and quality assurance practices to engineering and all-source analytic products.\nWork Environment:\nLocation: Chantilly, Va and Reston, VA [On-site]\n\nTravel Requirements: Minimal\n\nWorking Hours: Standard 40 hours per week\n\nRequired Qualifications\nExperience: 5-10 years in space, defense, or IC analysis or systems engineering, including exposure to space threat analysis or mission/architecture assessments within the IC/DoD environment.\nModeling & Simulation: Demonstrated experience using space mission M&S tools (e.g., STK, AFSIM, or equivalent) to support analytic or engineering tasks.\nArchitecture Knowledge: Working understanding of space and ground architectures, including interactions among mission, ground, and user segments.\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related technical field from an accredited institution.\nClearance & Eligibility: U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI security clearance with CI Poly.\nPreferred Qualifications\nAdvanced Degree: M.S. in Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related discipline.\nAdvanced Methods/Tools: Experience with MBSE (SysML/UML), digital engineering environments, or advanced modeling approaches (e.g., Python/MATLAB toolchains, Monte Carlo methods).\nMission/Enterprise Awareness: Familiarity with Intelligence Community and Combatant Command organizations (e.g., NRO, NSA, NGA, USSPACECOM), and understanding of how space and counterspace intelligence informs operational planning and joint mission execution.\nBasic Compensation:\n$140,200 to $167,000\nThe offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.\nAdditional Compensation:\nKBR 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 a sign-on bonus, relocation benefits, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance\nBelong, Connect and Grow at KBR\nAt KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver - Together.\nKBR is an equal opportunity employer. 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