Senior/SME Seeker Engineer – Long-Range Weapons

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Senior/SME Seeker Engineer – Long-Range Weapons

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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.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in developing and fielding advanced long-range weapon capabilities that ensure national security and strengthen the future joint force.

Position Summary:

KBR is seeking a highly experienced Senior to SME-level Seeker Engineering professional to support a U.S. Government program office developing and fielding advanced long-range weapon systems. This position will provide expert technical and programmatic support across seeker architecture, design, integration, performance assessment, risk reduction, test, and transition to production. The ideal candidate possesses deep, hands-on expertise with both radar and electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) seeker technologies and has supported air-to-air and air-to-ground missile or precision-guided weapon programs through development, integration, test, and fielding.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical advisor to the Government program office on seeker technologies, architectures, performance, integration, and technical risk for long-range air-to-air and air-to-ground weapon systems.
• Evaluate contractor seeker concepts, designs, development plans, technical baselines, performance claims, risk-reduction activities, and maturation strategies.
• Assess active and passive radar seeker technologies, including radio-frequency front ends, antennas and arrays, transmit/receive modules, signal processing, waveform design, target detection, tracking, discrimination, and electronic-protection features.
• Assess EO/IR seeker technologies, including imaging infrared sensors, focal plane arrays, optics, cryogenic and uncooled detector approaches, image processing, automatic target recognition, scene-based navigation, and target tracking.
• Evaluate single-mode, dual-mode, and multimode seeker architectures and the allocation of functions among radar, EO/IR, onboard processing, navigation, datalinks, and weapon-level guidance and control.
• Assess seeker performance across representative air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, target sets, engagement geometries, environmental conditions, backgrounds, countermeasures, clutter, obscurants, and contested electromagnetic environments.
• Support Government evaluation of seeker requirements, specifications, interface definitions, verification methods, technical performance measures, and requirements traceability.
• Evaluate seeker integration with the weapon guidance, navigation and control system, mission computer, inertial navigation system, datalink, power and thermal systems, airframe, radome or optical window, and fire-control or launch-platform interfaces.
• Assess contractor modeling, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, digital engineering, laboratory, captive-carry, flight-test, and live-fire test approaches used to verify seeker performance.
• Analyze seeker test data, anomalies, failure investigations, root-cause assessments, corrective actions, and technical trade studies; identify implications for performance, cost, schedule, and fielding risk.
• Support technical reviews, design reviews, test readiness reviews, program reviews, source selections, proposal evaluations, and other acquisition activities requiring independent seeker expertise.
• Research comparable radar, EO/IR, and multimode seeker approaches across the Department of War, allied programs, industry, and the broader technology base to identify applicable technologies, lessons learned, and risk-reduction opportunities.
• Evaluate opportunities to improve seeker affordability, modularity, commonality, open architecture, processing capability, software reusability, producibility, upgradeability, and resilience to evolving threats.
• Assess technology maturity, integration readiness, supplier dependencies, critical components, obsolescence, exportability, cybersecurity, software assurance, and transition-to-production risks associated with seeker solutions.
• Develop independent technical assessments, risk summarie