Fiber Test Engineer

Fiber Test Engineer

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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 Fiber Test Engineer to support the MIT LL team.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: Enable critically important communications over vast distances by being the team member to innovate and overcome technical challenges as we spearhead new solutions through advanced prototyping.
• Collaborative Environment: Come join a team of enthusiastic engineers engaged in creating the next generation of cutting-edge laser communication systems technology.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense and/or defense.

Key Responsibilities:

• Fiber handling, routing, organization in lab spaces
• Test equipment and infrastructure repair / replacement
• Test equipment and infrastructure configuration Setup / Debugging / Calibrating
• Arbitrary Waveform Generator operation
• Procedure Writing and Redlining
• Generating Documentation and Diagrams
• General / Test Event support for Comm and/or PAT

Work Environment:

• Location: Predominantly on-site
• Travel Requirements: Willing and able to travel (up to 10%, typically CONUS)
• Working Hours: Standard

Required Qualifications:

• Active DoD Secret clearance
• Bachelor of Science
• 5 years of applicable experience
• Fiber splicing
• Fiber routing and handling
• Fiber equipment / component characterization and calibration
• Power in fiber measurement to support compliance with component specifications
• Familiarity with a diverse set of lab test equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, waveform generators, power meters, attenuators, switches, spectrum analyzers, etc.)
• Instrumentation skills
• Optical amplifier experience (high power)
• Ability to perform experimental arrangement debugging
• Experience performing data analysis and generating reports
• Experience with MATLAB

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with designing GUIs for instrumentation (e.g., MATLAB App Designer)
• Familiarity with coding languages beyond Matlab (e.g., Python)
• Solidworks knowledge
• Signals and Systems knowledge
• Experience with optical communications systems and standards
• Experience with pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) techniques for free-space optical communications systems

Basic Compensation: For MA only, the salary range is approximately $117,600 - $176,300 USD annually. The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Ready to Make a Difference? If you're excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together.

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