# Specialty Systems Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Defence & Intelligence

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## Description

Leidos Defense Sector is seeking a Specialty Systems Engineer to join a collaborative Systems Engineering Integration and Test team developing sensor payloads for space. The role involves leveraging expertise across risk, reliability/availability, radiation, and cybersecurity disciplines , combined with strong MBSE modeling skills , while contributing to the national defense mission.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Risk Management:

- Conduct comprehensive risk assessments to identify, measure, and monitor potential threats to company assets, profitability, and operational integrity.

- Develop and enforce risk management policies, frameworks, and internal controls aligned with industry standards.

- Design and implement actionable risk mitigation plans, collaborating cross-functionally with department leaders to reduce exposures.

- Prepare regular risk reports for executive leadership and ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory requirements and governance standards.

- Specialty Engineering (Risk / Reliability / Availability / Radiation / Cybersecurity):

- Conduct or facilitate reliability and availability/maintainability analyses to identify, measure, and mitigate threats to system performance and mission success.

- Support radiation effects analysis for space systems through interaction with subject matter experts.

- Support cybersecurity risk assessments to ensure systems meet mission assurance and security requirements.

- Monitor and report specialty performance metrics to program and executive leadership.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with program management, design engineering, and logistics to integrate specialty findings into program baselines, design trade-offs, and compliance with applicable standards.

- MBSE / Cameo Modeling:

- Develop and maintain structural, behavioral, and parametric system models using SysML in Cameo Systems Modeler.

- Translate specialty analyses into model-based artifacts, establishing bi-directional traceability from stakeholder needs through requirements, architecture, and verification and validation.

- Map system-of-system architectures and define physical, logical, and software interfaces, integrating specialty engineering inputs directly into the digital model.

- Execute trade study analysis focusing on -illity related requirement and risk posture.

**Required Skills:**

- Experience as risk manager and running risk review boards

- Superior organization and leadership skills and attention to detail

- High level of commitment to quality work product and organizational ethics, integrity, and compliance

- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team environment

- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbally

- Demonstrated decision making and problem-solving skills

- Detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines with minimal supervision

**Basic Qualifications:**

- BS degree and 4+ years of relevant experience, or Masters with 2+ years of relevant experience

- Must be a US Citizen

- Must have an active Secret Clearance

- Experience modeling in Cameo Systems Modeler (or equivalent) using SysML, and experience using Teamwork Cloud

- Experience in risk management and one or more specialty disciplines: reliability engineering, availability/maintainability analysis, radiation effects analysis, or cybersecurity

- Experience deriving requirements for complex electrical, mechanical, optical, and software systems

- Familiarity with technical data management, report writing and support tasks

- Demonstrated ability in change management, process improvement, project planning, and stakeholder management

- Ability to demonstrate a commitment to personal and corporate excellence, ethical behavior and integrity

## Skills

### Required
- risk management
- reliability engineering
- availability/maintainability analysis
- radiation effects analysis
- cybersecurity
- SysML
- Cameo Systems Modeler
- Teamwork Cloud

### Nice to have
- space systems
- Object Management Group (OMG) Certified System Modeler Professional (OCSMP) certification
- INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional (SEP) certification
- ASQ CRE for reliability
- Security+/CISSP for cybersecurity

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