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Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place. This starts with helping our customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. Our dedicated Defense Group employees are solving critical challenges across the globe. At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success.  We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. 

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The Airborne Systems Business Area, part of the Defense Sector at Leidos, currently has an opening for a cleared Electrical Engineer to work in our Beavercreek, OH, Hanscom AFB, MA and Eglin AFB, offices. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the Air Force Research Lab, Air Force Lifecycle Management Center, and other DoD missions. Your role will be to support our diverse portfolio of programs through a combination of software design and development, hardware interfacing and integration, laboratory experimentation, ground and flight testing to deploy cutting edge, next generation solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy military R&D airborne stores and equipment.

• Participate in laboratory, ground and flight testing to validate electrical hardware.

• Document and communicate proposed electrical hardware solutions with integrated, cross-functional engineering teams in a fast paced highly technical environment.

• Use modeling and simulation tools for hardware products and systems (Cameo, Creo Schematics, Creo Parametric).

• Contribute to investments and research that fuel innovation and technological advancements.

• Explain technical solutions, practices and procedures to others within the organization.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or a Master’s degree with 6-10 years of experience.

• Experience working in a SIL environment.

• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally from informal one-on-one discussions or in a small group environment.

• Work well within a team and independently with minimal supervision.

• Ability to work within a dynamic work environment, ability to handle multiple tasks at once (multi-task).

• Strong desire to grow and learn new technologies.

• Prior experience in generating electrical solution documents (schematics, work instructions, BOMs, SOPs) and participation in design reviews (PDR, CDR).

• Setting up hardware for testing (discrete and analog signals, RS-232, USB, Ethernet, Fiber).

• Experience with using electrical measurement tools for troubleshooting and fault isolation, such as: multimeters, oscilloscopes, power meters, signal analyzers, and signal generators.

• Troubleshooting and fault isolation skills (e.g. ohmmeters, network testers oscilloscopes, signal generators, RF analyzers).

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

• Must be a US Citizen.

• Must be able to obtain a top-secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active DoD TS/SCI clearance

• Familiar with Agile Methodologies, preferably SCRUM or Kanban

• Experience with Atlassian tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket

• Experience in electrical subsystems for airborne platforms (manned and unmanned), ground stations, ISR pods

• Experience in design and evaluation of radio voice and data systems, tactical line of sight and SATCOM

• Experience in DoD information security devices (e.g. data diodes, cryptographic equipment, and cross-domain solutions)

• Experience in product lifecycle process to include identifying/mitigating risks, bench and SIL testing, and product deployment and maintenance

• Previous Flight-line experience

Original Posting Date:

2025-01-03

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00

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.