Remote Systems Engineer - Mission Planning

Leidos; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Systems Engineer to support our NAVAIR customer in Alexandria, VA, California, MD, or Virginia, VA. The role emphasizes systems engineering, analysis, and collaboration with government and vendor teams. Travel up to 25% is required, and a Top Secret clearance is required.

The candidate will participate in requirements transition, architecture design, testing, and milestone reviews, while drafting specifications and roadmaps for mission planning tools.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Active Top Secret clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI.
• Willing to travel 25%.
• Demonstrated initiative and ownership of deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience leading working groups.
• Strong writing skills.
• Model Based System Engineering experience.
• SAFe agile experience.
• Experience with DOORS, JAMA, Jira, Magic Draw.

Responsibilities

• Transition of requirements from current requirements to support prototype mission planning requirements.
• Collaborate with the government and teams to define algorithms and architecture for operational mission planning and strike planning.
• Understand and facilitate algorithm design, software implementation and testing, quality control, documentation, and integration into tactical mission planning tools.
• Provide engineering design and analysis assessments
• Validate system and customer requirements
• Draft system specifications
• Develop Roadmap and release planning
• Support Formal software and system milestone reviews
• Recommend CONOPS changes and use case development
• Conduct and lead system test events
• Evaluate vendor design and requirements specifications, hardware proposals and software solutions
• Coordinate and lead technical exchange meetings with vendors, customers and system operators
• Ability to work in ambiguous situations relying on creativity to deliver products
• Ability to explain and effectively communicate complex engineering analyses and studies to government and corporate management

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Model Based Systems Eng.

Team leadership

Written communication

Education

B.S. in Engineering

Tools

DOORS

JAMA

Jira

Magic Draw

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Systems Engineer to support our NAVAIR customer in Alexandria, VA, California, MD, or Virginia, VA. The role emphasizes systems engineering, analysis, and collaboration with government and vendor teams. Travel up to 25% is required, and a Top Secret clearance is required.

The candidate will participate in requirements transition, architecture design, testing, and milestone reviews, while drafting specifications and roadmaps for mission planning tools.