Senior Systems Engineer, Cloud-Based ATC Systems

Leidos LLC; Gaithersburg (MD); On-site; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join the Air Traffic Business Area within Homeland Sector, supporting next-generation flight service and air traffic systems.

You will work in a Scaled Agile environment to translate regulatory requirements into testable system capabilities and collaborate with Product Owners, architects, software engineers, and stakeholders to ensure traceability and compliance throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, systems engineering, or a related field and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with at least 6 years of experience.
• Experience working within Agile development environments, including familiarity with Agile methodologies, principles, and tools.
• Experience performing systems engineering activities across the system development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, decomposition, traceability, integration, and verification.
• Strong understanding of disciplined engineering processes and attention to detail in highly regulated or mission-critical environments.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional technical teams, customers, and stakeholders to define and refine system capabilities.
• Experience preparing and maintaining technical documentation and requirements artifacts.
• Familiarity with software development concepts, architectures, interfaces, and integration considerations.
• Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with cloud-based systems and modern software architectures.
• Ability to obtain SF-85 Public Trust suitability determination US Citizenship

Responsibilities

• Review FAA requirement documents, advisory circulars, and applicable regulations to extract intent, constraints, interfaces, and acceptance criteria.
• Translate operational and regulatory requirements into detailed, testable system requirements, features, and acceptance criteria that support Agile development activities.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and development teams to refine backlog items, clarify system behaviors, and ensure technical completeness and traceability.
• Engage with customer stakeholders, operators, and subject matter experts to identify use cases with an emphasis on completeness, testability, alignment with operational workflows, and readiness for validation trials.
• Decompose high-level regulatory and operational requirements into specific capability statements with measurable performance criteria and traceability to FAA compliance outcomes.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability between stakeholder needs, system requirements, architecture artifacts, implementation tasks, and verification activities.
• Support system design discussions by evaluating technical approaches, documenting trade-offs, identifying integration impacts, and assessing operational or regulatory risks.
• Prepare and review technical documentation, including system specifications, interface definitions, use cases, operational workflows, verification plans, and requirements traceability matrices.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical interchange meetings, structured reviews, and system inspections.
• Coordinate with software engineering, test, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps teams to ensure system requirements are fully implemented, validated, and operationally supportable.
• Assist in defining verification and validation strategies, including support for demonstrations, integration testing, operational assessments, and customer reviews.
• Systematically capture and communicate design decisions, performance trade-offs, compliance rationales, and risk assessments to support program transparency and technical governance.

Skills

Agile development

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Traceability

Technical documentation

Public Trust

Cloud-based systems

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Tools

Cameo

DOORS

Jama

Jira with traceability plugins

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join the Air Traffic Business Area within Homeland Sector, supporting next-generation flight service and air traffic systems.

You will work in a Scaled Agile environment to translate regulatory requirements into testable system capabilities and collaborate with Product Owners, architects, software engineers, and stakeholders to ensure traceability and compliance throughout the lifecycle.