Description
Leidos is seeking an Electrical Engineer to lead cutting-edge engineering efforts within the Undersea Systems Division. This role supports underwater vehicle systems, maritime sensors, subsea telemetry, and ISR solutions for critical defense and national security missions.
You will be an engineer on a multidisciplinary team developing and supporting customers with advanced maritime technologies, from production processes to prototype design.
The Undersea Systems Division is a recognized leader in undersea technologies, delivering innovative solutions across sensor networks, unmanned systems, and tactical platforms.
Why Join Us?
- Make a Mission Impact: See your work directly contribute to U.S. maritime dominance.
- Turn Capability into Readiness: Support proven technologies through production, integration, fielding, and long-term operational support.
- Own Real-World Results: Solve production, quality, supply chain, and sustainment challenges.
- Work with an Exceptional Team: Collaborate with engineers, manufacturing professionals, technicians, program teams, suppliers, and customers.
- Build Capability That Lasts: Improve how maritime systems are produced, supported, upgraded, and sustained.
What You'll Do
- Provide hands-on electrical engineering support for production, integration, testing, and sustainment of complex maritime systems.
- Troubleshoot electrical and electronic hardware at the component, assembly, and system level.
- Perform technical investigations and root-cause analysis, developing practical engineering solutions.
- Develop and maintain electrical schematics, cable and wiring diagrams, bills of material, test procedures, specifications, and other technical documentation.
- Work closely with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, technicians, and suppliers to resolve electrical component challenges.
- Support component selection, configuration changes, obsolescence management, part substitutions, repairs, and technology refreshes.
- Support electrical integration and test activities, including test equipment, failure analysis, troubleshooting, and disposition of nonconforming hardware.
- Provide engineering support for fielded systems, ensuring delivered products remain reliable and mission-ready.
What You Bring Required Experience:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering (Systems, Electrical, Ocean), Physics, or Math.
- 10+ years of experience with subsea maritime systems or other integrated electro-mechanical systems.
- 5+ years of experience leading integrated teams.
- Exposure to DoD technical program execution.
- U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
Preferred Experience:
- Applicable experience in the industry may be possible in lieu of a degree.
- Over 10 years leading design, development, and integration of complex subsea maritime systems.
- Experience with UUVs, deployed subsea systems, and underwater payloads.
- Experience with manufacturing processes and procedure development.
- Experience with underwater acoustics.
- Proven track record in product manufacturing and transitioning designs to production.
- Familiarity with ISO 9001:2015 and quality-focused engineering processes.