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Senior/SME Propulsion 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 propulsion technologies, architectures, performance, integration, producibility, and technical risk for long-range air-to-air and air-to-ground weapon systems.
- Assess air-breathing and advanced propulsion technologies, as applicable, including ramjet, ducted-rocket, turbine-based, or other propulsion concepts; inlets; combustors; fuel systems; thermal management; and associated controls.
- Evaluate propulsion integration with the weapon airframe, guidance and control system, power and thermal systems, ignition and initiation systems, separation hardware, flight-control actuators, launch platform, and carriage and release interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate contractor propulsion concepts, designs, development plans, technical baselines, performance claims, risk-reduction activities, qualification approaches, and maturation strategies.
- Assess solid rocket motor technologies, including propellant formulations, grain design, case materials, insulation, liners, igniters, nozzles, thrust-vector control, safe-and-arm features, and insensitive-munitions considerations.
- Support Government evaluation of propulsion requirements, specifications, interface definitions, verification methods, technical performance measures, qualification criteria, and requirements traceability.
- Experience evaluating propulsion requirements, architectures, contractor designs, modeling and simulation results, qualification plans, test data, anomalies, manufacturing readiness, and technical risk.
- Ability to independently assess complex propulsion issues, identify key risks and uncertainties, and develop actionable recommendations for Government decision-makers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Propulsion Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 15+ years of relevant experience in missile propulsion, rocket motors, air-breathing propulsion, energetics, propulsion integration, or closely related defense or aerospace system development
- Demonstrated technical experience with missile propulsion systems, including design, development, integration, performance analysis, qualification, test, production, or technical oversight.
- Experience supporting air-to-air or air-to-ground missiles, long-range weapons, precision-guided munitions, hypersonic systems, or comparable advanced weapon-system programs.
- Advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Propulsion Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience with solid rocket motors, dual-pulse or variable-thrust motors, ducted rockets, ramjets, turbine-based propulsion, hypersonic propulsion, or other advanced propulsion concepts.
- Experience with propellant formulation, grain design, combustion stability, ignition systems, nozzles, thrust-vector control, motor cases, insulation, liners, thermal protection, or propulsion-control systems.
Company info
- Senior/SME Propulsion 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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