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RF Systems Engineer

KBR Government Solutions
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Chantilly, VA, USA
Jul 20, 2026

Title:

RF 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.

We are seeking a RF Systems Engineer to support our customer in Chantilly, VA. The position requires the employee to draft critical documents necessary to establish new contracts and support system acquisitions. The ideal candidate will have experience within the Intelligence Community, with familiarity across standard systems engineering approaches, modeling techniques, and RF-enabled collection systems.

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.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide mission planning and requirements development using an interdisciplinary approach encompassing the entire technical effort to evolve and verify an integrated and total life-cycle balanced set of system, people, and process solutions that satisfy customer needs in support of system acquisitions, including maritime, ground, air, space-based, and RF-enabled collection systems.
  • Develop technical information to support the government program management decision-making process; assist Government PMs in managing and controlling the definition and management of the system configuration and the translation of the system definition into work breakdown structures.
  • Develop CONOPS for technical collection operations and management, including RF, sensor, or communications-based mission capabilities.
  • Oversee contractor development of technical collection systems, RF components, and supporting software in accordance with system requirements.
  • Demonstrated experience in mission planning and requirements development to evolve and verify an integrated and total lifecycle balanced set of system, people, and process solutions that satisfy customer needs, including systems with RF, sensing, or signal collection elements.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting systems engineering and integration functions for customer acquisitions, including requirements development, acquisition documentation, test and evaluation, and system design reviews for complex technical and RF-influenced systems.
  • Experience developing programmatic and technical information to support the program management decision-making process for collection, sensing, or communications systems.
  • Experience developing, managing, and controlling system configuration documents and work breakdown structures.
  • Demonstrated experience providing contractor support to government collection systems, RF-enabled platforms, and associated software acquisitions.

Work Environment:

  • Location: On-site
  • Travel Requirements: Minimal
  • Working Hours: Standard

Required Qualifications:

  • Active TS/SCI with currenty Polygraph
  • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM-related discipline; Master’s Degree preferred
  • 0 – 5 years of experience
  • Demonstrated ability to serve as the integrating mechanism across technical efforts related to the development, manufacturing, verification, deployment, operations, support, disposal, and training for systems and their life cycle processes
  • Experience working with the community to prioritize, rank, and task technical and RF-enabled collection capabilities
  • Experience in processing and exploiting technical intelligence and the production of intelligence products for dissemination to the community
  • Experience supporting RF, sensing, communications, or signal-based systems within a systems engineering or SETA capacity
  • Experience in Source Selections
  • Experience in the oversight of program cost, schedule, and performance

KBR Benefits

  • KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

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.

Job ID

R2120822

Security Clearance

TS/SCI
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