Description
The Decision Advantage Business Area within Defence at Leidos is seeking a Systems Engineer to support our NAVAIR customer.
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 experience.
- Integrated development tool experience, such as DOORS, JAMA, Jira, Magic Draw, etc.
Desired Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience conducting engineering analysis, modeling, and simulation
- 4+ years of experience working in the defence 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
The pay range for this job level is $107,900.00 - $195,050.00.