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Senior Air Warfare Test and Evaluation / Threat M&S / HWIL / Over-the-Air Test Subject Matter Expert 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. Job Description: Job Title: Senior Air Warfare Test and Evaluation / Threat M&S / HWIL / Over-the-Air Test SME Location: CONUS; remote/work from home acceptable, with supervisor based in Huntsville, AL Clearance: Top Secret (TS) required at hire; candidate must be able to successfully obtain and maintain a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) investigation and eligibility. Existing TS/SCI is strongly preferred. Employment: Full-time Summary: KBR is seeking a senior subject matter expert (SME) to support the Test and Evaluation Threat Resource Activity (TETRA) in Air Warfare Test and Evaluation (T&E), threat modeling and simulation (M&S), hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL), and over-the-air (OTA) test capability development. The ideal candidate brings deep experience across developmental test (DT) and operational test (OT), threat surrogate development and validation, air electronic warfare (EW) systems, and intelligence community (IC)-produced threat emulators. This role will help define requirements, assess test capabilities, support range and laboratory integration, and provide technically rigorous analysis and recommendations to government stakeholders across the DoD and IC. Key Responsibilities: • Lead technical assessments for Air Warfare T&E efforts spanning laboratory, HWIL, open-air range, and flight test environments. • Develop and evaluate threat M&S approaches, including threat surrogates, IC-validated digital models, and closed-loop or open-loop threat representations for T&E. • Define requirements and methodologies for OTA test capabilities, threat emitter systems, mobile threat simulators, and HWIL test infrastructure that support specification verification, mission effectiveness assessment, and rapid reprogramming validation in support of TETRA and the office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E). • Provide subject matter expertise in Air EW M&S capabilities, threat environment assessments, intelligence-based analyses, and the operational use of threat emulators produced by the IC. • Coordinate with government, industry, academia, test ranges, laboratories, and intelligence stakeholders to mature test capabilities, assess system performance, support acquisition decisions, and identify cost, schedule, and technical risk reduction opportunities. Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical discipline. • 20+ years of relevant experience in Air Warfare T&E, threat M&S, flight test, laboratory test, range test, or related defense acquisition and integration activities. • Active TS clearance required; TS/SCI eligibility required, with active TS/SCI strongly preferred. • Demonstrated experience with threat surrogate development, verification and validation (V&V), intelligence data and threat assessments, and integration of threat models into Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) test environments. • Experience developing requirements, test methodologies, test plans, technical assessments, and briefing materials for senior government and program leadership. • Strong communication skills and proven ability to work effectively across the DoD, IC, national labs, federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs), industry, and academia. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience with Air EW systems, countermeasures, rapid reprogramming test environments, IC-accredited threat models, mobile threat simulators, and major platform programs such as fighter, unmanned, Artificial Intelligence (AI) -enabled, or electronic attack aircraft. • Experience working with organizations such as TETRA, MSIC, NASIC, DOT&E, TRMC, AFRL, NRL, NAWCAD, or major defense industry laboratories and test organizations. • DAWIA or equivalent certification in Systems Engineering, T&E, or Program Management is preferred. Work Conditions & Travel: • Primary duty location: CONUS remote/work from home acceptable. Occasional travel to KBR sites, customer sites, test ranges, laboratories, and government or industry partner locations may be required. 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.