Principal Software Integration, Automation, and Verification Engineer

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Performs all activities associated with the design, development, implementation, maintenance, configuration management, and quality control of automated software test and verification frameworks for scientific and engineering applications.
• Designs, builds, maintains, and expands software automated test and verification capabilities spanning unit, integration, and system-level validation to verify software functionality, integration, and performance against documented requirements.
• Analyzes customer and system requirements and translates them into automated requirement verification, functional, and integration test strategies.
• Develops and executes integration tests to ensure software components integrate and operate together successfully across distributed and modular architectures.
• Designs and implements test integrations, diagnostic utilities, and tooling to isolate defects, debug software versions, and support root-cause analysis across development and test environments.
• Implements automated reporting of test execution results to databases, dashboards, and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) artifacts, ensuring traceability between requirements, tests, and outcomes.
• Integrates automated testing capabilities into CI/CD pipelines using Python, GitLab, and associated DevSecOps toolchains to enable continuous verification and regression testing.
• Generates and updates technical documentation defining test frameworks, verification approaches, software baselines, and configuration management artifacts in accordance with department standards.
• Evaluates vendor-provided tools, libraries, and test frameworks; provides recommendations regarding adoption, integration, or replacement.
• Participates with software, systems, and test engineering teams in the design, development, and utilization of scientific and engineering data processing systems, with emphasis on verification, validation, and integration.
• Provides technical analysis related to the design, development, and implementation of test automation infrastructure, diagnostic software, and verification utilities.
• Supports system integration labs, hardware-in-the-loop, or distributed test environments.
• Experience supporting system integration labs, hardware-in-the-loop, or distributed test environments.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in mathematics, engineering, computer science, or other related technical field.
• Minimum of 8 years of progressive, related experience in software engineering, test engineering, or automated verification of scientific or engineering systems.
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated software test frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience writing integration tests, functional tests, and requirement-based verification tests for complex software systems.
• Proficiency in Python for test development, automation, and tooling.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Git-based workflows (e.g., GitLab CI).
• Experience analyzing software discrepancies, debugging integration issues, and resolving defects against documented requirements.
• Experience generating and maintaining technical documentation and software baselines in accordance with established standards.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret clearance.

Skills

• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environments, including automated reporting or traceability between tests and system models.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices and continuous verification in regulated or mission-critical environments.
• Familiarity with MkDocs or similar static documentation generation frameworks for automated technical documentation.
• Prior experience providing technical leadership, mentoring junior engineers, or owning test infrastructure used by multiple programs or teams.

Benefits

Join our team at KBR supporting the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and contribute to the development, prototyping, and transition of next-generation defense capabilities. If you thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy solving hard integration problems, and want to shape how complex systems are engineered and delivered, we invite you to bring your expertise and help define the future.

Pay

Competitive compensation package, including base salary, benefits, and incentives.

Schedule

Standard work schedule.