Undersea Systems Vulnerability Engineering Analyst

Leidos Inc; Suitland (MD); On-site; USD 166,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an experienced engineer to join the Analysis Solutions Business Area. You will shape maritime threat understanding, support ONI products, and contribute to naval decision-making through multidomain system analysis.

You will characterize C4ISR architectures, translate intelligence into actionable insights, and evaluate network topology while addressing vulnerabilities and countermeasures. This role requires an active TS clearance and a passion for mission-driven work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field with 8+ years of experience, or master's with 6+ years of experience.
• Experience in signal processing and/or systems engineering.
• Experience working with SIGINT, OSINT, and other all-source intelligence.
• Active TS clearance with the ability to obtain SCI.

Responsibilities

• Characterize threat C4ISR architecture from the component level upward, covering node hierarchy, decision timelines, battle management logic, and sensor integration.
• Translate raw intelligence into actionable insights, highlighting decision points, timing constraints, and structural vulnerabilities.
• Evaluate physical and logical network architecture, connectivity, bandwidth, latency, and redundancy/failover design.
• Analyze adversary processes from target detection through track reporting, fire control solution development, and battle damage assessment.
• Assess how threats coordinate across sensors and platforms, including data exchange formats and cueing protocols.
• Examine track accuracy and latency requirements at every handoff point; assess jamming or countermeasures impact on engagement performance.
• Conduct vulnerability research with attack trees and threat scenarios identifying system weaknesses.

Skills

Signal processing

Systems engineering

SIGINT/OSINT

Active TS clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Description

Are you an experienced engineer ready to apply your expertise to some of the nation's most complex and consequential intelligence challenges? Join Leidos' Analysis Solutions Business Area, where your work will directly shape maritime threat understanding, strengthen national defense, and influence real-world operational outcomes. In this missiondriven role, you'll collaborate with top technical and intelligence professionals, tackle sophisticated multidomain systems, and see your contributions impact countermeasure development and Navy decision‑making. If you're motivated by solving hard problems with strategic importance, this is where your skills can make a lasting difference.

Leidos' Analysis Solutions Business Area is seeking experienced engineers who are eager to contribute to some of the nation's most important maritime intelligence challenges. In this role, you'll help characterize undersea naval and multidomain threats‑from subsystemlevel analysis to integrated combatsystem assessments‑and support the creation of highvalue maritime finished intelligence (FINTEL) products for the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI).

Your work will directly advance several missioncritical objectives:

• Producing objective, tradecraftcompliant FINTEL (ICD 203)
• Delivering defensible, sourceable intelligence (ICD 206)
• Enabling maximum utility for countermeasure developers
• Helping close the sensortoshooter loop and strengthen U.S. maritime advantage

This position is ideal for engineers who enjoy complex systems analysis, thrive in missiondriven environments, and want their technical expertise to directly influence national security outcomes.

What You'll Do

C4ISR Architecture Analysis

Characterize threat C4ISR architecture from the component level upward. Your assessments will cover node hierarchy, decision timelines, battlemanagement logic, sensor integration, datafusion requirements, communications/datalink features, and EP integration under jamming or EA conditions. You'll also generate subsystemlevel engineering building blocks that feed broader systemofsystems analysis.

SensortoVulnerability Integration

Translate raw intelligence into operationally actionable insights, closing the loop between sensor performance and architectural vulnerabilities. Your work will highlight decision points, timing constraints, and structural weaknesses that inform EW, EP, and hardkill countermeasure development.

Network Topology & Connectivity

Evaluate physical and logical network architecture, connectivity pathways, bandwidth and latency constraints, and redundancy/failover design.

Full SensortoShooter Characterizati on

Analyze adversary processes from initial target detection through track reporting, firecontrol solution development, weaponlaunch authorization, guidance support, and battledamage assessment.

CrossPlatform Coordination

Assess how threats coordinate across sensors and platforms, including dataexchange formats, cueing protocols, and cooperativeengagement logic.

Targeting Data Quality

Examine track accuracy and latency requirements at every handoff point, and evaluate how jamming or countermeasures degrade engagement performance.

Networked System Vulnerability Research

Conduct functional decomposition, develop attack trees, construct threat scenarios, and perform rigorous assessments to identify system and network vulnerabilities.

Required Skills, Education, and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field, and 8+ years of relevant experience or master's degree and 6+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in signal processing and/or systems engineering
• Experience working with SIGINT, OSINT, and other allsource intelligence
• Active TS clearance with the ability to obtain SCI.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline
• Priority consideration for candidates with an in-scope and active TS/SCI clearance
• Experience with Grapevine
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence

Salary Range for this position is: $166K to $205K - The final salary offered will be based on experience, education, and clearance.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.