Are you innately curious about unfamiliar subjects and developing new skills? Do you like to tinker with tools or situations to make a product or a process better? Are you a self-starter who instinctively explores and implements solutions to difficult problems?

If your answer is a vigorous, “Yes!” to these questions, then the LinQuest Corporation wants you to join our team to contribute to an exciting and dynamic effort for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on location in Reston, Virginia.

LinQuest Corporation is seeking a Senior Technical Writer to support dynamic knowledge capture, presentation, and dissemination as the broader team explores and develops leading edge analytic processes and insights, and delivers game-changing modeling and simulation (M&S) capability for evaluating future warfighting investments and concepts for the Department of Defense.

The selected individual will serve on a broader multi-disciplinary team of operational military subject matter experts, operations research analysts, and modelers conducting sponsor-directed studies and analyses using an environment and modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) tool being developed by DARPA. Other applicant requirements and job functions include:

• Develop and/or revise documentation, handbooks, and manuals that capture an array of practical analytic, knowledge management, and other processes
• Support development and/or revision of documentation related to models, scenarios, and/or behaviors developed in the M&S framework.
• Capture terms and processes for taxonomy, procedural, and workflow development.
• Create and maintain study documents for reliability and verification.
• Capture and organize revisions, references, tests, outcomes, and figures into a coherent narrative or report.
• An active Top Secret clearance with Sensitive Comparted Information (SCI) eligibility is required.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of experience as a technical writer
• Demonstrated ability to create visually appealing and effective PowerPoint briefs, structured assessments, and reports
• Demonstrated ability to concisely integrate a large amount of varied information into well-structured and digestible written materials
• Skilled in Microsoft Office products and Adobe Acrobat tools.
• Effective communicator and collaborator
• Proven experience working with classified documents for the Department of Defense or the military Services
• Experience developing training materials and/or documentation for software tools
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with current SCI eligibility
• Eligible for Special Access Program (SAP) access
• US Citizenship

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Master’s degree with 12 years of experience as a technical writer
• Project Management skills
• Illustration and creative graphic skills
• Understanding of web-based documentation workflows and management cycles
• Experience developing training materials and/or documentation for software tools.
• Have modeling and simulation documentation experience.
• Experience writing for research
• Knowledge Management experience
• Familiarity with Joint warfighting capabilities, advanced weapons, current and future operational concepts
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with active SCI within the last 12 months

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

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.