Flight Vehicles Systems Engineer

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The Small Airborne Effectors Division at Leidos is seeking a talented Avionics Systems Engineer to join a diverse team to create unique solutions for complex problems. With offices across the United States engaging in the defense, space, cyber, and commercial fields, Leidos provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific, and IT solutions.

The focus of the Small Airborne Effectors Division is to apply core disciplines of modeling and simulation, aerodynamics design, guidance and control, software, integrated vehicle design, and system integration in an agile approach based on tightly coupled engineering staff to meet and exceed our customers’ shared vision for affordable, effective, and novel integrated flight systems while building effective, motivated teams of engineering and support staff.

The Avionics Systems Engineer will support multiple programs at once in a variety of engineering fields with all different team environments. The Mission and Aviation Solutions Division has a diverse portfolio of projects and programs which specialize in strike systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and modeling & simulation of internally-developed, domestic, and foreign flight vehicles. The successful candidate will serve multiple key functions in leading the design evolutions of flight vehicles, to include Systems Engineering, Test, Avionics Software, and Hardware Design.

The selected candidate will interface directly with program management, military and other government personnel, and a team of multi‑discipline design and development engineers, both internal and external, to support the group’s agile, rapid, flexible, and tailored development process. A firm understanding of flight system architectures, system interfaces, performance requirements, verification, and validation techniques is essential for the role.

• Develop tailored Systems Engineering artifacts derived from customer needs for product development programs associated with the DoD.
• Interface with program management and design engineers to support a program’s systems engineering needs throughout its life cycle, including modeling system behavior, defining system architecture, dictating system interfaces, performing requirements verification, and helping develop and execute test programs.
• Develop a Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) model of some programs’ flight systems. The Avionics Systems Engineer must possess functional knowledge of interacting with MBSE models in order to support MBSE activities.
• Perform other flight system design activities outside of Systems Engineering. Avionics Software and Hardware design will fall under the realm of the Avionics Systems Engineer, requiring a technical background in a related area (e.g., aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or software engineering).
• Lead team activities, requirements development and derivation, system and subsystem architecture design, interface development and documentation, test planning, traceability, and test execution, including ground, hardware‑in‑the‑loop, and flight testing. Oversight of mechanical and electronics design for flight vehicle avionics subsystems, as well as software design leadership, are included.

• A bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering,…