Systems Engineer at KBR
Chantilly, VA
$160,000–$205,000from the description
Jul 29, 2026
Chantilly, VA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A systems engineering role supporting a government SIGINT/space systems program office within the intelligence community. The engineer manages configuration baselines, requirements, interface definitions, and engineering review processes across the full acquisition lifecycle for complex space systems — including space vehicles, payloads, and ground command and control elements. Suited to experienced SE professionals with a DoD/IC space background and an active TS/SCI with polygraph.
Senior level · 10+ years · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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Why we read it this way (8)
Location is not specified in the posting. Given the TS/SCI with polygraph requirement and the IC/SIGINT mission context, the role is almost certainly in the Washington DC metro area (e.g., Fort Meade/NSA corridor), but this cannot be confirmed from the text alone.
The JSMART tool suite is listed as a required skill; it is a government configuration/requirements management tool used in IC space programs.
The posting requires a Bachelor's in STEM 'or related discipline' with no explicit equivalent-experience substitution, so Bachelors is treated as a hard requirement.
A Master's degree in engineering or systems engineering is listed under Desired and is therefore preferred, not required.
Skills such as 'system design trade process', 'mission requirements analysis', and 'test development/execution' appear only under the Desired section and name no specific tool or technology, so they are omitted per the no-generic-concepts rule.
The TS/SCI with Polygraph is an explicit hard gate ('Active/Current TS/SCI with Polygraph' listed under Required).
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): DoD/IC satellite systems, DoD/IC space systems acquisition, systems engineering baseline control.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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