Systems Engineer - Advisory at BWX Technologies, Inc.
Oak Ridge, TN
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Jul 10, 2026
Oak Ridge, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior systems engineering role supporting advanced gas centrifuge development for uranium enrichment at a defense-focused nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, TN. The work spans the full engineering lifecycle — requirements decomposition, system architecture, interface definition, trade studies, verification and testing, and design reviews. Suited to experienced engineers with a background in defense, DOE, or national security programs who hold an active DOE Q or DoD Top Secret clearance.
Senior level · 15+ years · Knoxville, TN · Bachelor's required · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
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Why we read it this way (8)
This is a Systems Engineering role in the defense/nuclear domain — not a pure software or IT occupation. SOC 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the closest available code, but this role is more accurately a traditional Systems Engineer (SOC 17-2199, Industrial/Other Engineers), which is not available in the schema. 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) is listed as the alt code given the systems analysis and integration emphasis.
The clearance requirement is stated as 'Active DOE Q or DoD Top Secret (TS)' — both are equivalent in access level. Mapped to TopSecret (not TopSecretSci) as no SCI or polygraph is mentioned.
The salary range fields in the posting contain unfilled template placeholders ('$[[cust_salaryMin]]' / '$[[cust_salaryMax]]'), so no compensation figures could be extracted.
Teamcenter and Windchill are listed together as examples under a single preferred qualification ('PLM/MBSE ecosystems'), so they are captured as a single skill with alternatives.
MQTT, Kafka, AWS IoT, and Azure Digital Twins are listed together as IoT/streaming framework examples under Preferred Qualifications — captured as one skill with alternatives.
The role requires 15+ years of systems engineering experience specifically in defense, DOE, nuclear, or national security programs — a very senior experience gate, though the title carries no explicit seniority label.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): systems engineering lifecycle, requirements management, configuration management, ML modeling.
Requires a Top Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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