Senior Space Systems Engineer

Position Summary

LinQuest has an immediate opening for a Senior Space Systems Engineer this position will be supporting the Space Systems Center’s Space Systems Integration Office (SSIO), for which the LinQuest team will provide integration planning across the nation security space community, ensuring the US Space Force and its mission partners are able to acquire and field space systems that work together and within the Government’s planned and existing architecture.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Provides technical oversight of space systems development efforts and developers who are responsible for the design, development, manufacturing, fabrication, integration, and test of space systems
• Develops, derives, and decomposes technical requirements for future development activities
• Decompose technical data into actionable information for government customer
• Support systems architecting and engineering activities such as requirements definition, design, interface management, data architecture development, integration and test, verification and validation, performance analysis, lifecycle cost analysis
• Some travel required by the customer
• Provide critical path analysis

Required Skills and Experience :

• Bachelor’s Degree with + years of related experience
• Must have experience supporting technical programs throughout the engineering life cycle with an emphasis in one or more of the following areas :
• Systems engineering
• Space systems design and development
• Payload engineering
• Major systems development
• Must have an active Top Secret clearance with in-scope SSBI / T and have SCI eligibility. Must be willing to consent to a Counter-Intelligence Polygraph

Compensation for California : The salary for this position ranges from approximately $, to $, depending on relevant experience and qualifications.

Why LinQuest?

LinQuest Corporation has a stellar -year track record of providing end-to-end system-of-systems (SoS) architecture definition, engineering design, integration and test, and operations expertise to enable full lifecycle development and deployment of pre-eminent Space, Air, Land, Sea, Ground, and Cyberspace game-changing capabilities across US DOD and IC Customers’ portfolios.

Unique combination of in-depth domain knowledge, lessons learned-honed best practices, and mission-specific applications of principles, tools, and techniques of Digital Engineering (DE), DE Ecosystem (DEE), and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) set LinQuest apart from the competition to consistently deliver stellar high-value results for our customers.

LinQuest’s corporate vision and values place the employee at the center of utmost customer satisfaction, strategic business growth, and tactical execution excellence.

Our employees’ creative and inspirational drive, sense of fulfillment of personal and professional growth, and tightknit camaraderie within and across lines of business are essential in gaining and maintaining exceptional LinQuest corporate-wide results of new business awards and renewed contracts.

Benefits : LinQuest offers comprehensive and competitive benefit offerings to our team members to include medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, company paid life insurance, and more! For additional information please visit :