# Lead Systems Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Gaithersburg, MD
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking Lead Systems Engineers to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector, supporting the development of next-generation flight service and air traffic systems.

As a member of a Scaled Agile software development organization, you will contribute to the technical execution of a program that integrates proven, globally deployed technologies with modern cloud-native capabilities.

In this position, you will serve as the dedicated Systems Engineer for an Agile/SAFe development team, partnering closely with Product Owners, architects, software engineers, testers, DevSecOps engineers, and customer stakeholders to define, refine, and validate system capabilities.

**Primary Responsibilities**

- Review FAA requirement documents, advisory circulars, and applicable regulations to extract intent, constraints, interfaces, and acceptance criteria.

- Translate operational and regulatory requirements into detailed, testable system requirements, features, and acceptance criteria that support Agile development activities.

- Collaborate with Product Owners and development teams to refine backlog items, clarify system behaviors, and ensure technical completeness and traceability.

- Engage with customer stakeholders, operators, and subject matter experts to identify use cases with an emphasis on completeness, testability, alignment with operational workflows, and readiness for validation trials.

- Decompose high-level regulatory and operational requirements into specific capability statements with measurable performance criteria and traceability to FAA compliance outcomes.

- Develop and maintain requirements traceability between stakeholder needs, system requirements, architecture artifacts, implementation tasks, and verification activities.

- Support system design discussions by evaluating technical approaches, documenting trade-offs, identifying integration impacts, and assessing operational or regulatory risks.

- Prepare and review technical documentation, including system specifications, interface definitions, use cases, operational workflows, verification plans, and requirements traceability matrices.

- Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical interchange meetings, structured reviews, and system inspections.

- Coordinate with software engineering, test, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps teams to ensure system requirements are fully implemented, validated, and operationally supportable.

- Assist in defining verification and validation strategies, including support for demonstrations, integration testing, operational assessments, and customer reviews.

- Systematically capture and communicate design decisions, performance trade-offs, compliance rationales, and risk assessments to support program transparency and technical governance.

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, systems engineering, or a related field with 4–8 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 2–6 years of experience

- Experience working within Agile development environments, including familiarity with Agile methodologies, principles, and tools

- Experience performing systems engineering activities across the system development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, decomposition, traceability, integration, and verification

- Strong understanding of disciplined engineering processes and attention to detail in highly regulated or mission-critical environments

- Experience collaborating with cross-functional technical teams, customers, and stakeholders to define and refine system capabilities

- Experience preparing and maintaining technical documentation and requirements artifacts

- Familiarity with software development concepts, architectures, interfaces, and integration considerations

- Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills

- Experience with cloud-based systems and modern software architectures

- Ability to obtain SF-85 Public Trust suitability determination

- US Citizenship

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience with Java, Python, React, and scripting languages

- Knowledge of AI-assisted development workflows and tools

- Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

- Knowledge of air traffic control systems, general aviation, and/or flight services

- Practical knowledge of FAA/DoD systems, technical policies, standards, and orders

- Experience leveraging requirements-management and model-based engineering tools

- Experience supporting verification and validation activities in regulated environments

- Familiarity with systems integration, interface management, and operational testing in large-scale distributed systems

## Skills

### Required
- Agile development
- Systems engineering
- Cloud-based systems
- Software development
- Requirements analysis
- Traceability
- Integration
- Verification
- Validation
- Technical documentation
- Communication skills

### Nice to have
- Java
- Python
- React
- Scripting languages
- AI-assisted development workflows
- DevSecOps practices
- CI/CD pipelines
- Air traffic control systems
- General aviation
- Flight services
- FAA/DoD systems
- Requirements-management tools
- Model-based engineering tools
- Systems integration
- Interface management
- Operational testing

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