Communications Systems Engineer

KBR Inc

Beavercreek, OH

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$100,000–$140,000 Per Year
SKILLS
Acceptance Testing, Antenna, Avionics, Budgeting, CDL Driver's License, Communication System Design, Communication Systems, Communications Architecture, Communications Protocols, Computer Engineering, Computer Security, Design Document, DoD Clearance, Documentation, Electrical Engineering, Field Trials, Hardware Quality Assurance, Hardware-Software Integration, Integration Testing, Internet Security, Interoperability, Interoperability Testing, Logistics, Military Communications, Network Simulation, Network System Hardware, Network Testing, Project/Program Management, Protocol Analysis, Prototyping, Radio Frequency, Requirements Management, Research & Development (R&D), Risk, Satellite Communications, Security Clearance, Simulation, Software Testing, Support Documentation, System Architecture, System Integration (SI), System Test, Systems Analysis, Systems Engineering, Tactical Communications System, Team Player, Technical Analysis, Test Data, Test Equipment, Test Plan/Schedule, Testing, United States Department of Defense (DoD), Waveforms
LOCATION
Beavercreek, OH
POSTED
3 days ago

Title:

Communications Systems Engineer

Belong. Connect. 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.

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 designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

KBR is seeking a midlevel Communications Systems Engineer to support the design, development, integration, test, and vulnerability assessment of military communications systems in laboratory, simulation, and operationally relevant environments. The role focuses on RF and non-RF communications systems, including waveforms, datalinks, protocol behavior, interfaces, and end-to-end system performance.

The engineer will work across hardware, software, RF, networking, and test boundaries to develop requirements, support lab design, develop and integrate waveforms and communications protocols, and evaluate system behavior using representative equipment, test data, and technical analysis.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and document communications system architectures, lab configurations, interfaces, and test environments
  • Research, select, and integrate communications hardware, software, RF equipment, networks, datalink systems, and test infrastructure
  • Develop system requirements, interface descriptions, verification approaches, test plans, and supporting design documentation
  • Develop, integrate, and evaluate waveforms, communications protocols, message flows, and data exchange behavior
  • Assess communications systems and architectures for vulnerabilities, limitations, interoperability issues, and technical risk
  • Execute lab, HIL/SIL, modeling and simulation, field test, exercise, and interoperability activities for communications systems
  • Document test results, findings, and recommendations for technical reviews and customer deliverables

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Systems Engineering
  • 3-8 years of experience in systems engineering, integration, test, evaluation, vulnerability assessment, or development of communications or other complex technical systems
  • Experience developing or using requirements, interface descriptions, verification matrices, test plans, architecture diagrams, or system design documentation
  • Experience integrating or testing systems involving hardware, software, networks, RF equipment, simulators, lab infrastructure, or fielded equipment
  • Working understanding of communications behavior across physical, link, network, and logical layers, including waveforms, protocols, message flows, timing, interfaces, routing, or data exchange
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DoD security clearance

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with military communications systems such as tactical radios, datalinks, SATCOM, IFF, Link 16, CDL, MANET, avionics communications, or related C5ISR systems
  • Experience with RF communications, SDR-based systems, waveform or protocol development, datalink systems, interoperability testing, vulnerability assessment, or protocol-level analysis
  • Experience designing, configuring, or sustaining communications labs using radios, SDRs, RF test equipment, network equipment, simulators, mission-system interfaces, or representative fielded equipment
  • Familiarity with RF fundamentals such as spectrum, modulation, antennas, link budgets, interference, signal paths, and RF test equipment
  • Experience supporting DoD programs, laboratory R&D, acquisition, operational test, or prototyping environments

Basic Compensation: $100,000 - $140,000 (For Ohio Only)

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people 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 People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team's philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver - Together.

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.

About the Company

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KBR Inc

When you become part of the When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. As a leading global technology, engineering, procurement and construction company serving the hydrocarbons and government services industries. For decades it has been the company that customers turn to for their most challenging assignments.

With operations in 40 countries, KBR has more than 25,000 people delivering services to customers in over 70 countries. Together they represent an unmatched reservoir of talent and experience in a wide range of markets.

Whatever the assignment, no matter how complex or demanding, KBR can marshal resources across every product line to respond quickly and effectively to changing markets and customer needs.

Whether it's providing the technology and consulting know-how to develop our customers' valuable assets; designing and constructing the infrastructure and facilities to develop energy resources in some of the world's more remote and challenging locations; providing support and services for men and women of their countries' armed forces; or navigating the intricacies of undertaking major projects in geopolitically or culturally sensitive environments, our clients depend on KBR because they know that We Deliver.

Join us and you'll be part of a dynamic, elite team of professionals who understand what it takes to get a job done and has the experience, knowledge and determination to succeed.”

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Construction - Industrial Facilities and Infrastructure
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://www.kbr.com/en