# Lead Software Engineer

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

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## Description

We are seeking a talented Lead Software Engineer to work onsite in our Huntsville, AL office in support of the IFPC program, developing software for critical counter-UAS and missile defense solutions.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will serve as the team's technical lead and drive the adoption of AI-assisted software engineering practices. You will develop production software in C++ and Python in a Linux environment for counter-UAS and missile defense systems within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Serve as the technical lead and design authority for the IFPC Agentic AI software development improvement software team

- Champion and operationalize agentic AI-assisted software development across the team

- Coach and upskill engineers in the effective use of AI coding assistants

- Adapt commercial agentic-AI coding practices to a secure, restricted, or air-gapped environment

- Develop production software in C++ and Python in a Linux environment

- Debug and troubleshoot software in a Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) and Software-in-the-loop (SWIL) setting

- Establish and enforce engineering and coding standards

- Collaborate across systems, electrical, test, and cybersecurity teams

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline

- 12+ years of professional software development experience

- Recent, substantial, hands-on experience building real software with current-generation agentic AI coding assistants

- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor engineers and to lead a software team as a technical lead

- Strong, current proficiency in C++ and Python

- Experience across the full software lifecycle, including peer reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD

- Experience working within an Agile / SAFe environment

- Experience with tools such as Jira and GitLab

- Ability to adapt modern AI-assisted development workflows to security-constrained, restricted, or disconnected environments

- Currently living in Huntsville, AL or willing to relocate

- U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Deep, hands-on expertise with specific agentic AI coding tools

- Experience building AI enablement assets

- Experience measuring and driving AI developer-productivity impact

- Experience with self-hosted / on-prem large language models and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over codebases

- Familiarity with AI governance and safety for software teams

- Commercial / private-sector software experience

- Counter-UAS, missile defense, or other mission-system domain experience

- Real-time / embedded C++ and experience troubleshooting/testing software in an HWIL environment

- Experience with Buildroot and VMware; network programming (UDP/TCP) and analysis tools such as Wireshark

- Experience supporting and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and familiarity with DoD acquisition processes and methods

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Python
- Agile
- SAFe
- Jira
- GitLab
- Linux
- AI-assisted software development

### Nice to have
- agentic AI coding tools
- AI enablement assets
- self-hosted large language models
- retrieval-augmented generation
- AI governance and safety

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