Title:
R&D Integration Engineer
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Program Summary
KBR’s Digital Research, Engineering, Acquisition, and Materiel Management Team (DREAMM Team) provides comprehensive Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, Model Based Systems Engineering, Modeling & Simulation, Data Analysis, DevSecOps, technical solution development, and training capabilities, serving our DoD customers. With a wide range of services and contract options, the DREAMM Team is dedicated to ensuring excellence in every aspect of our customer’s Digital Transformation journey, including strategy and implementation plan development, technical execution, and training and development courses. This commitment ensures smooth and manageable design, implementation, test and deployment of technical solutions, streamlined processes, and digital methods and approaches.
Job Summary - Research And Development Integration Engineer:
Are you ready to embark on a journey where your expertise meets meaningful impact? As an R&D Integration Engineer you’ll dive into the system and software integration challenges related to airborne autonomy prototyping, driving toward a challenging timeline in order to meet national defense objectives. Join our team at KBR supporting the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and be at the forefront of military autonomous solution development and prototyping, contributing to our success story. You’ll collaborate closely with a diverse team, fostering innovation and excellence every step of the way. If you’re ready to make a difference and thrive in a dynamic environment, apply now and let’s shape the future together!
The successful candidate for this position possesses a background including the development and integration of software systems across a variety of computing hardware and/or military and commercial air platforms. Candidates should have experience working in a high-paced Agile development environment implementing a containerized DevSecOps approach. This role will be part of a team supporting the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in a research and development effort to prototype and transition an autonomous ISR capability operating at the edge to detect, identify, track, maintain custody of and report on high value targets. Responsibilities include:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Execute technical tasks to achieve challenging technical objectives including software integration, software system level test, software service level testing, problem resolution, modeling & simulation implementation, and support to system requirement verification & validation
- Support the establishment, maintenance, use and continued improvement of three to four separate development and test environments (Software in the Loop, and Hardware in the Loop) at different classifications, while maintaining synchronized software loads, code repositories, and issue tracking across each environment
- Coordinate, and integrate many interoperable software containers to create distinct and related software variants
- Create, develop, and implement solutions to address infrastructure and security requirements
- Identify the needs for build automation, designing, and implementing CICD solutions
- Create, develop, and implement automation and system integration for various build platforms
- Support publishing and dissemination of CICD best practices, patterns, and solutions
- Help troubleshoot, identify, and fix problems in the DevSecOps domain
- Prepare formal and informal documentation in accordance with organizational processes and procedures, schedule and facilitate incremental planning and coordination meetings and prepare and deliver written and oral progress reports.
- Develop detailed documentation, briefs, technical drawings, engineering diagrams, and plans
- Operate on a dynamic, high-paced team to deliver challenging technical solutions to near-term Air Force operational problems
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Bachelors’ degree from an accredited college in a technical discipline with 10 years of experience in software development, and/or systems integration
- DoD Clearance Requirement: Ability to gain a Secret and Top Secret/SCI
- Proficient in repository management software systems, container-based software systems, and DevSecOps processes
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office products
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance
- Master’s degree from an accredited college in a technical discipline
- Proficient in Kubernetes and/or Docker
- Familiarity with modeling and simulation systems
- Significant experience in military and/or commercial airborne systems, intelligence, UAV, and/or autonomous flight systems
- Experience with Gitlab, Kubernetes, Docker, Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM), Open Mission Systems/Unified Command and Control Interface (OMS/UCI)
- Familiarity with software system test tools, processes, and best practices
- Candidate must be a high performer, effective collaborator, and organized.
- Adept problem solver and possess critical thinking skills.
- Self-motivated and goal-oriented team player
KBR Benefits
KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.
Inclusion and Diversity at KBR
At KBR, we are passionate about our people, sustainability, and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a more inclusive and diverse company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment of real collaboration across cultures and locations. Our individual differences and perspectives bring enhanced value to our teams and help us develop solutions for the most challenging problems. We understand that by embracing those differences and working together, we are more innovative, more resilient.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
