senior operations Systems Engineer ic Bachelor's · Posted Mar 5, 2026
Skills
Security

About this role

Johns Hopkins APL is hiring a senior-level Systems Engineer in the operations function based in Laurel, MD. The posting calls out experience with Security. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Role
Systems Engineer
Function
operations
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Location
Laurel, MD
Education
Bachelor's degree
Department
Systems Engineering
Posted
Mar 5, 2026
AI Summary
Senior-level systems engineer serving as technical leader for nuclear surety engineering at Johns Hopkins APL. Develops systems engineering processes for nuclear weapon system compliance, conducts risk assessments, and provides technical guidance to DoD sponsors on safety and security of strategic defense systems.

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Job description

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Are you interested in applying technical leadership, innovation, system engineering skills, and specialty nuclear surety expertise toward the difficult critical challenges of ensuring the safety and security of this nation’s most critical defense systems? 

 

Are you eager to apply strategy and innovative engineering approaches to transform how the DoD evaluates and analyzes modern nuclear surety design?

 

Would you like to help strategic weapon system programs ensure compliance with the DoD’s nuclear certification process that is crucial to ensuring the safety, security, and effectiveness of nuclear weapons and their systems, which are integral to national security?

 

If so, we are looking for someone like you to serve as the Senior Nuclear Surety Systems Engineer within the System Realization and Resilience Group (KBR) of the Force Projection Sector. Our team is responsible for enabling the realization of strategic systems, ensuring resilience and specialty disciplines are integrated throughout system development, and supporting credible verification of strategic weapon systems. We lead efforts in systems engineering, system security engineering, test and integration, digital engineering, nuclear command and control, and reliability engineering.

 

As the Senior Nuclear Surety Systems Engineer, you will...

  • Serve as the Lab’s focal point and thought leader for nuclear surety engineering with emphasis on leveraging and implementing systems engineering principles to enhance strategic systems nuclear surety design and modifications.
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