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Systems Engineer - Intelligence Integration and Operations

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Location
Houston, TX
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

TS/SCI clearanceBachelor's degree

Job overview

The Systems Engineer serves as an office liaison for classified intelligence mission operations and supports direct customers and mission partners. The role interfaces with Intelligence Community and Department of War partners, supports advanced sensor capability projects, and helps integrate technical solutions for national security missions. Candidates joining KBR’s Mission Technology Solutions business before its planned spin-off are expected to transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Sensor Payload SystemsSensor OperationsIntelligence Customer EngagementMilitary Customer EngagementPartnership DevelopmentProject ManagementProject IntegrationSenior-Level ConsultationLeadershipIntelligence SystemsIntelligence Operations

Qualifications

Active TS/SCI With CI Polygraph15 Years Military Intelligence ExperienceBachelor's in Relevant AreaMaster's in Relevant Area20+ Years Relevant ExperienceIntelligence Systems and Operations Training or Certifications

Full job description

Title:

Systems Engineer - Intelligence Integration and Operations

At KBR, we deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 85 countries and operations in over 28 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results.

Trinzic is the future independent company to be created through the planned spin-off of KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business, expected in January 2027. Our people work at the frontier of what is possible, delivering solutions in challenging environments and advancing some of the world's highest-priority national security and space missions.

Backed by decades of mission success, deep expertise, and trusted partnerships, Trinzic will launch as a global organization with more than 18,000 employees supporting customers around the world. Join us at a defining moment and help shape the future of a company built to tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact.

Candidates who join KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business before the spin-off will transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete and will not need to reapply for employment.

Position Overview:

Serve as office liaison for classified intelligence mission operations, supporting direct customer and mission partners. Interact with various partner organizations on advanced sensor capability projects. Serve as interface between Intelligence Community and DoW partners to ensure mission success.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive mission outcomes by interacting daily with national partner operators and analyzing sensor results to advise community stakeholders.

  • Identify critical intelligence deficiencies that can be filled with current and developmental sensor capabilities; coordinate/lead test events that result in a quick AOR deployment timelines.

  • Support integration and fielding of unique technical solutions with novel platforms and sensors, with consideration of cross-platform and cross-domain approaches.

  • Conducts live mission coordination on high value missions including worldwide operating locations and watch floor operations to ensure optimal use of capabilities to meet customer intentions

  • Creates educational aides/briefs for user community, customers and COCOMs to understand sensor capabilities and operational concepts that increase effectiveness

  • Provide oversight to troubleshooting and problem solving activities

  • Engage with development contractors on existing and emergent technical capabilities

Required Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI with CI polygraph

  • 15 years (minimum) experience in military intelligence dealing with relevant sensor payload systems and their operation

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant area(s) of study

  • Proven experience with intelligence and military customer engagement, and establishing partnerships through networking

  • Demonstrated ability to concurrently build, develop, manage, and integrate multiple key projects

  • Proven ability to provide consultation to senior leaders and stakeholders

Desired Qualifications

  • Master's degree in area(s) of relevance

  • Proven leadership experience and success in working within large and complex organizations

  • 20 years or more of relevant experience

  • Additional training and/or certifications centered around intelligence systems and operations

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBRAt 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.

How this job compares

Set against the 11,183 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Texas median$108–181K/yr294 salary ranges
  • US median$59–72/hr429 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 589 open Systems Engineer jobs in Texas and 11,183 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,437 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 4,569 of the 11,183 open Systems Engineer jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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