Senior Systems Engineer

Position Summary

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) / Directorate of Science and Technology (ST) / Office of Space and Counterspace (SCS) and their mission partners have a need for scientific, engineering, and sustainment services to streamline the development, delivery, integration, and management of SCS’s portfolio of programs.

The purpose of this program is to support DIA’s overarching mission of providing timely space intelligence to the warfighter through the Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) cycle.

By leveraging a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach, this program will consolidate and integrate DIA’s technical collection capabilities to optimize data flow, eliminate service overlaps, evolve with leading-edge capabilities, and realize cost efficiencies to provide strategic informational advantages to the Government.

This position will provide technical and project leadership of a systems engineering team supporting current collection sites and defining the next generation of SCS systems.

This position supports Systems Engineering & Integration activities in a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities :

• Provide Systems of Systems (SoS) Engineering Management functionality guided by the SSC Chief Engineer or equivalent - this will provide for the SSC Director’s technical oversight of all processes and products within SSC
• Conduct SoS engineering management analysis and provide the control of SSC engineering processes to ensure disciplined processes are in place and pedigreed and highly credible products are being generated within SSC
• Perform cross-mission area architecture development through the identification of potential synergies and efficiencies across multiple mission areas based off of existing roadmaps and System Program Directorate developed to-be architectures
• Evaluate and characterize the known trade-space and ensure requirements mapping of newly developed enterprise-level cross-mission area architectures
• Develop candidate architectures that resolve common functions into common / enterprise solutions and reduce the cost associated with acquiring and maintaining multiple systems to achieve the same function
• Support defining strategic and operational-level strategy, developing associated architectures, and executing analysis processes to enable risk-informed investment decisions across the NSS enterprise to enable continued application of joint warfighter and National Command Authority effects in, through, and from space
• Apply DoD acquisition and management policies, principles, and instructions
• Analyze space enterprise future mission requirements; create technology road mapping, and identify and plan transition opportunities into programs of record and commercialization

Required Skills and Experience :

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field
• Twelve () years’ experience in space systems and national security, with a focus in developing roadmaps and architectures that are clearly aligned with future science and technology capabilities
• Extensive experience in systems engineering, systems of systems engineering, family of systems engineering, architectures, and road mapping for NSS systems
• Demonstrated ability to lead and participate in requirements development as part of the systems engineering, architecting, road mapping, and integration process
• Effective interpersonal and team-building skills, to engage at both the engineer and management levels to build confidence and collaboration
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project)
• Experience working with military or DoD civilian clients
• US Citizenship and Required DoD Top Secret clearance and DIA Special Compartmented Investigation (SCI)

Preferred Skills and Experience :

• Advanced degree in Engineering
• Systems engineering certifications, such as ESEP, CSEP, OCSMP
• Experience in technologies of Electro-Optics, Radar, Infrared, Magnetic, Nuclear, and small form factor sensors
• Experience with ground and airborne systems, such as terminals and networks
• Experience with technical mentorship

Compensation : Starting salary ranges from $, 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, tuition reimbursement, company paid life insurance, and more! For additional information please visit :