# Systems Engineer SME

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Tucson, AZ
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) to provide technical leadership for the Chinook Program. As a Systems Engineering SME, you'll serve as the technical authority for systems engineering activities, helping shape the architecture and future direction of a mission-critical application while ensuring engineering excellence across the program.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as the technical lead and systems engineering authority for the customer application.

- Define system architecture, engineering standards, technical roadmaps, and modernization strategies.

- Manage and maintain cloud-based application systems to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance.

- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and develop effective solutions to support system functionality and operational needs.

- Evaluate opportunities in the use of AI tools and how they can be applied to troubleshooting and system monitoring.

- Lead requirements analysis, system design, integration, verification, and validation activities.

- Guide technical decision making across cross-functional engineering teams.

- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative solutions to improve system capabilities.

- Lead technical risk identification, mitigation planning, and engineering trade studies.

- Mentor systems engineers and promote engineering best practices across the program.

- Partner with program leadership and stakeholders to align technical solutions with mission objectives.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance system performance, scalability, security, and maintainability.

Requirements:

- US citizenship is required per contract.

- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience.

- 12+ years of progressive systems engineering experience supporting software-intensive systems or enterprise systems.

- Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and influencing engineering strategy.

- Deep knowledge of systems architecture, integration, lifecycle engineering, and systems thinking.

- Experience leading engineering efforts within Agile and DevSecOps environments.

- Exceptional leadership, communication, collaboration, and technical mentoring skills.

Benefits:

- Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

## Skills

### Required
- Systems Engineering
- Cloud-based application systems
- AI tools
- Agile
- DevSecOps
- Python
- C++
- Linux

### Nice to have
- Experience supporting large-scale government or mission-focused programs
- Expertise in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, and enterprise modernization
- Systems Engineering Professional (SEP), INCOSE, CISSP, Security+ certification

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