# Principal Systems Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Laurel, MD
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $154,050.00 - $278,475.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to provide technical leadership and engineering direction across complex mission systems. You will guide systems-engineering efforts from stakeholder needs and requirements through architecture, design, integration, verification, deployment, and operations. This role requires extensive systems-engineering experience and demonstrated success planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts.

**Responsibilities**

- Requirements Engineering & Technical Baseline:

- Analyze user requirements, CONOPS, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications.

- Guide stakeholders in formulating requirements, evaluating alternative approaches, and assessing technical feasibility.

- Manage system and derived requirements to support delivery of production systems compatible with defined architectures.

- Architecture, Design & System Analysis:

- Lead system design and development activities based on system requirements and mission needs.

- Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions.

- Develop comprehensive Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions.

- Interfaces, Integration & Configuration:

- Define and manage interfaces throughout the system lifecycle.

- Establish formal procedures for coordinating system-integration activities across multiple teams.

- Verification, Test & Certification:

- Define methods, processes, and evaluation criteria for verifying systems, subsystems, and work products against established requirements.

- Plan verification activities for new and unproven designs early in the development lifecycle with system stakeholders.

- Risk, Trade Studies & Lifecycle Engineering:

- Assess program risks and quantify probability of occurrence and consequences of failure.

- Conduct and/or approve end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize lifecycle operations.

- Standards, Documentation & Acquisition Support:

- Maintain knowledge of applicable agency, national, and international system-development standards.

- Develop and contribute to Systems Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and other technical documentation.

- Principal-Level Technical Direction:

- Plan and lead Systems Engineering efforts supporting complex mission systems.

- Provide technical leadership for integration of requirements, design, and technology.

**Requirements**

- TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance

- Minimum of 20 years of experience as a Systems Engineer

- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline

## Skills

### Required
- Systems Engineering
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- DoDAF
- System Design
- Integration
- Verification
- Risk Management
- Trade Studies
- Lifecycle Engineering

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