Über diese Systems Engineer - Missile Systems Mission Planning Stelle bei Leidos
Systems Engineer
Location: Alexandria, VA, California, MD, Virginia Beach, VA
Clearance: Top Secret
The Decision Advantage Business Area within Defense at Leidos is seeking a Systems Engineer to support our NAVAIR customer in Alexandria, VA, California, MD, or Virginia, VA
The ideal candidate will have experience performing systems engineering, systems analysis, and supporting software development activities in support of acquisition, design, test and operations. This position requires up to 25% travel.
Position Responsibilities:
· Transition of requirements from current requirements to support prototype mission planning requirements.
· Collaborate with the government and teams to define algorithms and architecture for operational mission planning and strike planning.
· Understand and facilitate algorithm design, software implementation and testing, quality control, documentation, and integration into tactical mission planning tools.
- Provide engineering design and analysis assessments
- Validate system and customer requirements
- Draft system specifications
- Develop Roadmap and release planning
- Support Formal software and system milestone reviews
- Recommend CONOPS changes and use case development
- Conduct and lead system test events
- Evaluate vendor design and requirements specifications, hardware proposals and software solutions
- Coordinate and lead technical exchange meetings with vendors, customers and system operators
- Ability to work in ambiguous situations relying on creativity to deliver products
- Ability to explain and effectively communicate complex engineering analyses and studies to government and corporate management
Required Qualifications:
- B.S. in Engineering, Computer Science, or other related fields.
- Active and current Top Secret clearance with ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI.
- Must be willing and able to travel 25%.
- Demonstrated initiative and strong ownership of deliverables.
- Demonstrated experience leading working groups.
- Very comfortable speaking to groups.
- Strong writing skills.
- Model Based System Engineering experience.
- SAFe agile experienc.e
- Integrated development tool experience, such as DOORS, JAMA, Jira, Magic Draw, etc.
- Ability and willingness to travel 25%.
Desired Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience conducting engineering analysis, modeling, and simulation
- 4+ years of experience working in the defense and/or intelligence industry
- TS/SCI clearance
- Experience with the TLAM weapon system or other weapon systems
- Experience with imagery-based mission planning navigation products
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Original Posting:
October 27, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
