# Chief Engineer

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Chief Engineer to join our Electronic Warfare Division at Leidos in Arlington, VA or San Diego, CA. As an EW Chief Engineer, you will be responsible for research, design, and development of signal collection, processing, and dissemination systems.

Responsibilities:

- Develop novel and advanced algorithms, performance simulation, and analysis using simulated and real data in both time series and spectral domains

- Serve as Technical Team Lead

- Lead or support marketing and business development initiatives: develop technical solutions and new ideas for response to capture efforts

- Participate in, and/or lead, lab-based and field testing

- Lead and/or engage in multiple projects

- Communicate results in briefings and written material to your team, the Customer, and management

Requirements:

- Master's degree with 15+ years prior relevant experience. May consider a BS and equivalent experience.

- Fluent with tools such as MATLAB, Linux, Mathematica, Python, Simulink, and languages such as C/C++, Java, etc.

- Working knowledge areas such as digital filtering, spectral estimation, detection and estimation theory, linear algebra, and stochastic processes

- Demonstrated leadership of small multi-disciplinary technical teams and/or projects

- Demonstrated strong oral and written communication

- Experience working in EW, SIGINT, and/or radar fields as a technical leader

- Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret clearance and the ability to obtain a TS/SCI level clearance

Benefits:

- Competitive benefits including 4 or more weeks Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- MATLAB
- Linux
- Mathematica
- Python
- Simulink
- C/C++
- Java
- digital filtering
- spectral estimation
- detection and estimation theory
- linear algebra
- stochastic processes

### Nice to have
- Doctoral degree
- Business Development and Capture experience
- Experience working in a Research and Development (R&D) environment

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