Kbr
Senior/SME Seeker Engineer – Long-Range Weapons
Eglin AFB, Florida · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- 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.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Support Government evaluation of seeker requirements, specifications, interface definitions, verification methods, technical performance measures, and requirements traceability.
- Support technical reviews, design reviews, test readiness reviews, program reviews, source selections, proposal evaluations, and other acquisition activities requiring independent seeker expertise.
- Experience evaluating seeker requirements, architectures, contractor designs, modeling and simulation results, test plans, test data, anomalies, and technical risks.
Requirements
- Active DoD Top Secret clearance required with SCI eligibility.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Optical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 15+ years of relevant experience in radar, EO/IR, seeker, sensor, guidance, missile, precision-guided munition, or closely related defense system development
- Demonstrated technical experience with both radar and EO/IR seeker technologies, including design, development, integration, performance analysis, test, or technical oversight.
- Experience supporting air-to-air or air-to-ground missiles, long-range weapons, precision-guided munitions, or comparable advanced weapon-system programs.
- Experience planning, executing, or evaluating seeker test programs, including laboratory, modeling and simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, captive-carry, flight-test, and live-fire activities.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced Government program office supporting time-sensitive acquisition, development, integration, and fielding decisions.
- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Optical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 25+ years of seeker, sensor, missile, or precision-weapon experience, including recognized subject-matter expertise in radar, EO/IR, or multimode seeker systems.
- Prior experience supporting a Government program office, System Program Office, acquisition organization, developmental test organization, operational test organization, defense prime, or seeker supplier.
Benefits
- Experience with multimode seeker integration, sensor fusion, automatic target recognition, artificial intelligence or machine learning applications, or collaborative weapon concepts.
Company info
- Senior/SME Seeker Engineer - Long-Range Weapons
- Grow. with KBR!
- 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.
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