Principal Electronic Warfare Engineering Advisor - Long-Range Weapon Systems (Technical Fellow/SME)

About the role

KBR is seeking an exceptionally experienced Technical Fellow-SME-level Electronic Warfare Engineering professional to support a U.S. Government program office responsible for a portfolio of advanced long-range weapon systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted senior technical advisor to Government program leadership on electronic warfare, electronic protection, electronic attack, electromagnetic-spectrum operations, system survivability, and mission effectiveness across the long-range systems portfolio.
• Communicate highly complex electronic warfare concepts, technical risks, tradeoffs, and test results to senior leaders and other Government personnel in clear, concise, mission-focused terms that enable informed acquisition and program decisions.
• Engage directly with Government and industry engineers at the detailed technical level to examine architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces, models, test approaches, anomalies, and proposed solutions; challenge assumptions and drive technically sound resolution of complex issues.
• Evaluate contractor electronic warfare concepts, architectures, designs, development plans, technical baselines, performance claims, risk-reduction activities, maturation strategies, and integration approaches for long-range weapon systems.
• Assess electronic protection capabilities that enable weapon-system operation in contested and denied electromagnetic environments, including anti-jam performance, interference mitigation, frequency agility, signal authentication, resilience to deception, and protection of navigation, communications, datalinks, seekers, and other mission-critical functions.
• Assess electronic attack capabilities, techniques, and integration approaches, including stand-in or collaborative effects, onboard and offboard coordination, waveform and technique development, targeting and engagement logic, electromagnetic compatibility, and operational employment considerations.
• Evaluate electronic warfare requirements, threat representations, mission scenarios, measures of effectiveness, technical performance measures, specifications, interface definitions, verification methods, and requirements traceability.
• Analyze threat radar, communications, datalink, navigation-warfare, and other electromagnetic-system characteristics; assess implications for weapon survivability, penetration, targeting, terminal effectiveness, and mission success.
• Evaluate integration of electronic warfare capabilities with seekers, guidance and navigation, mission computers, datalinks, antennas, apertures, power and thermal systems, software, flight controls, platforms, offboard sensors, and collaborative weapon architectures.
• Analyze test data, anomalies, failure investigations, root-cause assessments, corrective actions, and technical trade studies; identify implications for performance, survivability, safety, cost, schedule, integration, production, and fielding risk.
• Lead or support technical reviews, design reviews, test readiness reviews, program reviews, proposal evaluations, source selections, independent assessments, and other acquisition activities requiring authoritative electronic warfare expertise.
• Evaluate the effects of evolving threats, countermeasures, low-probability-of-intercept or detection techniques, adaptive waveforms, cognitive electronic warfare, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and advanced signal-processing approaches on portfolio requirements and technical strategies.
• Research and synthesize relevant technologies, threat developments, lessons learned, test results, and operational insights from across the Department of War, intelligence community, allied programs, industry, and the broader technology base.
• Develop independent technical assessments, risk summaries, decision papers, briefing materials, technical roadmaps, test recommendations, and courses of action for Government stakeholders.
• Advise Government leaders on the electronic-warfare implications of acquisition strategies, contractor proposals, architecture trades, technical baselines, test results, schedule assumptions, production decisions, and fielding plans.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 20+ years of progressively responsible experience in electronic warfare, electronic protection, electronic attack, electromagnetic-spectrum operations, radar or communications systems, weapon-system survivability, or closely related defense engineering domains.
• Recognized technical expertise in electronic warfare engineering, with substantial experience supporting the design, development, integration, analysis, test, evaluation, or technical oversight of advanced defense systems.
• Demonstrated experience with both electronic protection and electronic attack as applied to weapon systems, airborne platforms, collaborative systems, mission systems, or other complex defense capabilities.
• Experience supporting long-range weapons, air-to-air or air-to-ground missiles, precision-guided munitions, penetrating systems, advanced aircraft, or comparable high-consequence weapon-system programs.
• Deep understanding of electromagnetic phenomenology, radar and communications fundamentals, signal processing, antenna and aperture performance, waveforms, interference, jamming and counter-jamming, deception, geolocation, threat systems, and system-level integration.
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex engineering concepts to senior leaders and non-specialist Government stakeholders while also conducting detailed technical discussions with Government and industry engineers.