Solar Technology and Energy Consultant

Looking for an opportunity to make an impact?

Leidos is a Fortune 500® company with nearly $18B in sales and 50,000 employees that brings over 70 years of experience in support of both investor-owned and municipal utility growth goals. Leidos Energy helps utilities address complex challenges through comprehensive, performance-based solutions delivered across the full project lifecycle. Our capabilities include engineering, planning, project management, construction management, and commissioning services for electric power substations, transmission and distribution systems, protection and controls design, and electrification programs. Utilities nationwide rely on Leidos for trusted power industry expertise, demonstrated by our work with more than 75 investor-owned utilities and over 100 municipal and cooperative utilities, as well as a growing portfolio of private developer clients.

Your greatest work is ahead!

Leidos Energy has an opportunity for a Solar Technology and Energy Consultant with primary responsibility for working in a team setting to support the existing solar consulting practice and with secondary responsibility for managing work products within the practice.

What you’ll be doing:

• Assist team with solar resource and PVsyst energy modeling.
• Review performance test provisions and results.
• Write independent engineering and owner advisor solar resource and energy production reports.
• Review and analyze SCADA data to assess the performance of operating solar power generating facilities.
• Work with the team managers in training and mentoring other technical team members.
• Maintain and grow Leidos’ viewpoints/opinions, solar information database, standards of practice, and internal improvement projects.

What does Leidos need from me?

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical field required. Recent college graduate with internship/co-op in related field or mid to senior level experience.
• Experience in performance modeling/analysis/testing, engineering design, evaluation of solar technologies, solar drawing development, or operations and maintenance of PV and/or other renewable generation facilities.
• Understanding of PV modules and inverters, including first principles understanding of how the design, manufacture, quality control, and installations of these technologies impact PV plant performance and reliability in the short and long-term. This includes cell design and manufacturing techniques, standards, and quality control programs.
• Understanding the similarities and differences in the design and modeling of residential, C&I, and utility-scale projects.
• Ability to successfully meet deadlines under pressure. Clients will include private equity, infrastructure, and hedge funds, investment and commercial banks, private developers, legal and financial advisors, original equipment providers, and energy service companies.
• Demonstrated track record of building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external clients.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively in a team environment, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• This position may require up to 25% travel to include international travel, and can include weeks with extended work hours to support client(s) needs.

Favorable if you have:

• Two plus years in the performance modeling/analysis/testing, engineering design, evaluation of solar technologies, solar drawing development, or operations and maintenance of PV and/or other renewable generation facilities preferred.
• Having worked as a developer, independent engineer, operator, and/or on a performance optimization team is a plus.
• Knowledge with HelioScope, PV watts, and SAM is a plus.
• Python coding abilities.
• Foreign language skills are a plus (Spanish preferred).

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.

Original Posting:

October 23, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.