Job Description
Title SATCOM Senior Systems Engineer (Modem) 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. The Senior Wideband Anti-Jam Modem (WAM) Systems Engineer will serve as the program’s senior technical authority for modem architecture, waveform integration, and anti-jam system performance supporting the government Lead Engineer. This role carries significant technical responsibility — driving architectural conversations and implementation decisions, establishing systems engineering standards, requirements, and representing the governments technical position to various vendors and other government organizations. The WAM provides wideband protected SATCOM access with integrated anti-jam capability, leveraging both the protected tactical waveform (PTW) and direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS), frequency hopping, and low probability of intercept and detection (LPI/LPD) waveform techniques to support reliable communications in contested and congested electromagnetic environments. The senior engineer will own the modem technical baseline requirements definition through design, integration, ver