# Lead Systems Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Gaithersburg, MD
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**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 a Lead Systems Engineer to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector. As a Lead Systems Engineer, you will support the design, implementation, and lifecycle management of lab and data center infrastructure for FAA modernization programs.

You will own the low-level design layer, including rack elevations, wiring lists, port assignments, cable schedules, power budgets, methods of procedure, and as-built documentation. You will also run design reviews, commission installations, maintain configuration baselines, and provide technical direction to hardware technicians.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Develop low-level infrastructure designs from approved architectural concepts

- Produce installation work packages that enable technicians to execute independently

- Commission new installations and own punch-list resolution

- Maintain authoritative as-built documentation and configuration baselines

- Provide technical work direction to hardware technicians when onsite

- Serve as the engineering escalation point for physical/integration troubleshooting

- Lead design reviews for your environments

- Interface with procurement and engineering departments on hardware delivery and RMA

- Develop and improve engineering standards, templates, labeling schemes, and repeatable deployment processes

- Support compliance implementation by ensuring physical installations conform to applicable security standards

**Required Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, information technology, computer science, or a related field and at least 4 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with at least 2 years of experience

- Demonstrated experience producing detailed infrastructure documentation

- Practical understanding of data center or lab infrastructure

- Experience with commissioning, validating, or accepting infrastructure installations

- Familiarity with networking fundamentals

- Proficiency with Visio, CAD, or equivalent diagramming tools

- Comfortable working across multiple concurrent projects with shifting priorities and compressed timelines

- Willingness to learn complex, non-standard environments

- Clear and effective verbal and written communication

- Ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust investigation

- US Citizenship

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows and tool-building

- Net+, CCNA, or equivalent network implementation experience

- Experience with infrastructure source-of-truth platforms

- Experience with scripting or automation applied to infrastructure documentation, validation, or data extraction

- Familiarity with configuration management and change-control processes

- Experience in technical leadership capacity

- Familiarity with data center infrastructure design standards

- Prior experience in FAA, civil aviation, or government lab environments

The salary range for this position is $87,100.00 - $157,450.00.

## Skills

### Required
- infrastructure design
- documentation production
- data center infrastructure
- commissioning
- networking fundamentals
- Visio
- CAD
- communication
- project management

### Nice to have
- AI-assisted engineering
- Net+
- CCNA
- infrastructure source-of-truth platforms
- scripting
- automation
- configuration management
- technical leadership
- data center infrastructure design standards

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