# Sr Mechanical Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Albuquerque, NM
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $154,050.00 - $278,475.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

Leidos Defense Systems is seeking a highly motivated Sr Mechanical Engineer to join its team. The role involves driving the implementation of Value Driven Design and advanced Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) workflows across complex, high-priority DoD portfolios.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Architect, lead, and deliver state-of-the-art avionics, weapon interfaces, and custom/COTS Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) for missile systems, and fieldable launch platforms.

- Design for flight structures and mass optimization studies.

- Design for manufacturability and assembly optimization.

- Design for electronics packaging.

- Bill of Material development and component specification composition.

- Contribute to all phases of a development cycle: planning, design and development, implementation, test, and delivery.

- Direct multi-disciplinary Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) for structures.

- Act as the primary internal technical authority, hosting weekly technical interchange meetings with external subcontractors to maintain design consistency.

- Partner with systems engineering teams to translate military standards into rigorous hardware requirements.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related technical field.

- 10+ years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree, or 8+ years with a master's degree in mechanical engineering for complex aerospace, missile, or defense systems.

- Demonstrated experience owning end-to-end systems engineering (requirements, architecture, interfaces, integration, verification, and validation) on large or complex projects.

- Experience with missile, high-speed flight, or advanced weapon systems (e.g., hypersonics, ballistic missiles, interceptors, or similar).

- Experience with requirements and configuration management tools (e.g., DOORS or equivalent); familiarity with MBSE concepts and tools.

- Proven ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams and resolve complex technical issues.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience briefing leadership and customers.

- Active DoD Top Secret or TS/SCI preferred.

- U.S. citizenship required.

- Candidate must be a resident of or be willing to relocate to the Albuquerque, NM or Huntsville, AL area.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related technical discipline.

- Direct experience on hypersonic boost-glide, air-breathing hypersonic, or other high-Mach flight test or weapon programs.

- Experience with responsibility for technical scope, cost, and schedule on government contracts.

- Direct experience with ND systems and components.

- Experience designing and executing experiments for strategic environments.

- Experience in mechanical engineering within the NNSA nuclear complex.

- Proficiency with CAD software for complicated mechanical designs – solidworks, creo, etc.

- Experience in design and analysis with structural components and mounts.

- Finite Element Analysis and simulation experience.

- Familiarity developing prototypes, and their testing and validation.

- Experience with testing and analysis of thermal, shock, and vibration.

- Experience integrating subsystems into next-level assembly systems.

- Experience with weapon systems and weapon system teams.

- Experience with material selection for systems in strategic environments.

- Experience with blast tubes, sled tracks, drop tests, and vibrafuge testing.

- Experience with uncertainty quantification and approaches.

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## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- DOORS
- CAD software

### Nice to have
- Hypersonic boost-glide
- Air-breathing hypersonic
- Finite Element Analysis
- ND systems and components

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