About the job
Are you passionate about leveraging your technical leadership and specialized nuclear surety knowledge to tackle some of the most critical challenges in safeguarding our nation's defense systems? Do you aspire to innovate and enhance the Department of Defense's (DoD) methodologies for evaluating and analyzing modern nuclear surety designs? Join us as a Senior Nuclear Surety Systems Engineer within the System Realization and Resilience Group (KBR) at the Force Projection Sector. Our dedicated team plays a pivotal role in the realization of strategic systems and the integration of resilience and specialty disciplines throughout system development.
In this role, you will:
- Act as the principal architect and thought leader for nuclear surety engineering, applying systems engineering principles to optimize nuclear surety design and enhancements for strategic systems.
- Develop and enforce systems engineering processes to guarantee adherence to nuclear surety standards.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to assess, analyze, and confirm that systems fulfill nuclear surety requirements.
- Review nuclear surety requirements in alignment with Navy Technical Objectives Guidelines (TOG) and Air Force Weapon System Specification (WSS), suggest enhancements, and implement systems engineering best practices for requirement traceability and validation.
- Provide expert technical guidance on nuclear weapon system safety to DoD sponsors.
- Conduct independent evaluations and safety assessments to promote design improvements that align with government mandates.
- Oversee strategic weapon system certification processes to ensure that quality evidence and artifacts necessary for safety, security, control, and reliability certifications are meticulously identified, defined, and accessible to sponsors.
- Formulate nuclear surety risk assessment methodologies and models, evaluating the probabilities associated with nuclear weapon mishap scenarios while analyzing mitigating factors.
- Execute risk assessments and forge mitigation strategies to uphold the safety and security of nuclear systems.
- Analyze vulnerabilities and security risks, including support for authorized special read-in programs (e.g., Unauthorized Launch Analysis (ULA)).