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Systems Engineer SME-February 2024
El Segundo
Feb 10, 2026
About Systems Engineer SME

  Description

  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:

  Apply Model Based System Engineering to support development of the program technical baselines

  Analyze system requirements that define the technical baseline and verification of the technical baseline

  Work with Government and contractor personnel to close gaps in flow of customer requirements down through the system and component levels

  Lead and supporting Government/Contractor Working Group meetings—by creating briefings, leading discussion, and writing minutes to resolve risks, requirement gaps, and action items

  Review proposed changes to the technical baseline for impacts to capabilities and to cross-stakeholder integration concerns

  Facilitate review of program documents by providing comments, compiling other reviewer comments, and working with contractor to adjudicate the comments

  Serve as a subject matter expert to assess technical issues and to prepare briefings to U.S. Air Force management

  Support management of risks, issues, interdependencies, identifying schedule disconnects and conflicts, developing action plans for resolution, and assisting the Government in executing selected solutions

  Required Skills and Experience:

  BS in engineering with specialization in Communications systems

  10+ years’ demonstrated experience with space or aeronautical systems engineering & integration programs and projects

  10+ years’ working in a collaborative team environment developing technical baseline/systems specification, verification or analysis using engineering applications and simulation models

  Proficient in using Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS)

  Strong interpersonal skills, communication (oral and written), and presentation skills

  Proficient in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

  Experience working with military or DoD civilian clients

  US Citizenship and current holder of a DoD Top Secret clearance and a bility to obtain a 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

  Compensation for California: Starting salary ranges from approximately $180,000 to $215,000, depending on relevant experience and qualifications.

  Why LinQuest?

  LinQuest Corporation has a stellar 40-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: https://www.linquest.com/careers/our-benefits

  Qualifications

  Licenses & Certifications

  Required

  Top SecretEqual Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

  The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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