# Flight and Mission Software Development Lead

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Defence & Intelligence

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## Description

We are seeking a talented Flight and Mission Software Development Lead to work onsite in our Huntsville, AL office. As a leadership position, you will lead a software team through the software development life cycle (SDLC) to produce solutions for advanced defense technologies such as manned aircraft software, tactical strike systems, sensors, computer vision, uncrewed air systems (UAS), counter UAS, mission planning, command/control/communications (C3), platform autonomy, network collaborative autonomy, aerial refueling, and flight management systems.

Responsibilities:

- Lead a Software Integrated Product Team (IPT) and work across technical functions on cohesive integrated solutions

- Provide software program management and oversee software systems engineers and lead software test engineers

- Serve as Agile Product Owner and make direct contributions to proposals

- Communicate with customers, end users, internal stakeholders, and team members on a frequent basis

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field

- 12+ years of relevant technical experience

- 3+ years of experience leading teams and managing resources for software development

- Excellent communication and team leadership skills

- Experience in development of software products or simulations using C, C++, Rust, C#, or Java

- Experience working on one or more final products that went beyond prototypes, demonstrations, test beds, or internal/lab use only

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with Agile/Scrum, unmanned aircraft or robotics, embedded development, design and implementation of operational flight software, digital communications, real-time development, and software safety

- Knowledge of various development tools for software qualification testing, requirements management, build and release, unit testing, regression testing, configuration management, and issue tracking

- Experience using and influencing the adoption of tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex or other coding agents to improve efficiency and productivity

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- Rust
- C#
- Java
- Agile
- Scrum
- Software Development
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- Python
- .NET/C#
- Qt
- Swift/Objective-C
- XML
- Anthropic’s Claude Code
- OpenAI’s Codex

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