About the position
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 Software Engineer/Developer to join our team in Albuquerque, NM. This position supports the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate (ARFL/RV), the Air Force's center of excellence for space research. AFRL/RV develops and transitions technologies that provide space-based capabilities to the nation. In this role, you will work with government and industry leaders to develop new modeling & simulation capabilities for space, driving critical analyses and investment decisions for pathfinding technologies.
Responsibilities
- Perform software design and development in C++
- Collaborate with customers and systems engineers and subject matter experts to develop, refine and translate requirements
- Research trends for various concept designs and translate to detailed software models
- Provide technical engineering support to analysis projects
- Conduct modeling and simulation (M&S) study and analysis support
- Analyze test data on various space systems, compare to M&S results, provide summary reports
- Support modeling and simulation for space systems (e.g., SATCOM, GPS and GNSS)
- Lead or manage aspects of or full projects
- Solve complex problems
- Meet regularly with customer, provide oral and written status on tasks
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), Computer Engineering, Computer Sciences or other related degree
- 1-3 years of programming experience with C++, Python, Matlab, and Visual Basic. Experience using AFSIM is highly desired.
- Some experience in system architecting, modeling, simulation, analysis, developing concepts, early systems engineering, and/or soliciting concepts from industry and stakeholders
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely both orally and in writing to support acquisition documentation and effectively collaborate among the engineering team and management to achieve common project goals
- Ability to build, integrate and troubleshoot software components
- Ability to take technical findings/data to generate analysis required to support informed decisions
Nice-to-haves
- General knowledge of other software programming frameworks and databases and the ability to apply that knowledge to the software domain
- Knowledge of the Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration and Modeling (AFSIM) for M&S efforts
- Some understanding of space-based assets, including satellite constellations, space-based radar, space weather, space ISR and GPS
- 3-5 years of software engineering experience
- Experience working with constructive mission simulations
- Experience conducting modeling and simulation (M&S) study and analysis support
- General knowledge of real-time target environments, including processor and network architectures, communication protocols and existing simulation framework design/use
- Working knowledge of electronic warfare in a technical field such as aircraft, ship, missile, or space systems
- Mission Level Analysis derived from physics-based modeling and simulation
- Experience supporting system engineering and integration of concept development, systems design and architecture, modeling and simulation, engineering integration, test and evaluation
- An active TS/SCI clearance is preferred.
