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Leidos · 21 hours ago

Lead Systems Engineer

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with innovative solutions. They are seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to supervise a team developing a sensor system, ensuring systems engineering efforts are within budget and objectives are achieved while serving as a technical liaison with customer representatives.

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Responsibilities

Supervise the technical work of other systems engineers and manage the output/report on progress of up to four other individuals, including Reliability Engineering, Logistics, Safety Engineering, and Cybersecurity to Program Leadership
Ensure that systems engineering effort is within budget and that Systems Engineering objectives are achieved
Develop and manage systems engineering artifacts, including Requirements Specifications, Verification Plans, Verification Results, and SE-related action item tracking/burndown
Serve as a technical liaison with customer representatives
Work in a matrixed organization, which supports multiple programs at once in a variety of engineering fields with all different team environments
Support a different program in the matrixed engineering portfolio when the sensor program ends

Qualification

Systems EngineeringRequirements ManagementTechnical LeadershipSensor System DevelopmentModel-Based Systems EngineeringVerification PlansDOORSCommunication SkillsTeam LeadershipProblem Solving

Required

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited university with 8+ years of experience or an MS with 6+ years
Experience in deriving and managing requirements for complex electrical, electro-mechanical, mechanical, and software systems
Experience creating verification and test plans, and coordinating system integration and test activities to support verification of system level requirements
Basic understanding of radar systems or at minimum sensor system operations
Experience leading cross-discipline and product teams
Demonstrated experience effectively communicating within a team environment, including leading and conducting Technical Design Reviews
Resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama, AL area
Possess a secret clearance, or have the ability to obtain a secret clearance

Preferred

Master of Science in System Engineering from an ABET-accredited university
At least 2-4 years of direct systems engineering experience
Requirements management tools, such as DOORS, JAMA, or Cameo/MagicDraw
Demonstrated experience effectively leading a team of engineers
Demonstrated experience accurately estimating the engineering effort (i.e. hours) associated with Systems Engineering tasks
DOORS and/or other requirements database tools
Understanding of the DoD acquisition processes and methods
Experience supporting one or more DoD programs
Object Management Group (OMG) Certified System Modeler Professional (OCSMP) certification
INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional (SEP) certification (ASEP or CSEP)

Benefits

Health and Wellness programs
Income Protection
Paid Leave
Retirement

Company

Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health.

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
unknown
2025-02-20Post Ipo Debt
2013-09-17IPO

Leadership Team

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James Carlini
Chief Technology Officer
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Theodore Tanner
Chief Technology Officer
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