Flight Software Development Lead

Description

The Kinetic Effects Business Area in the Leidos Defense Sector currently has a special job opening for a talented Flight and Mission Software Development Lead to work onsite in our Huntsville, AL office. This is an exciting and unusual opportunity to use your knowledge, skills, experience, and insight to launch the next phase of your career at Leidos by leading a talented software team through the software development life cycle (SDLC) to produce solutions for the nation’s leading advanced defense technologies such as manned aircraft software, tactical strike systems, sensors, computer vision, uncrewed air systems (UAS), counter UAS, mission planning, command/control/communications (C3), platform autonomy, network collaborative autonomy, aerial refueling, and flight management systems.

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. 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. Leidos is well known for our people-oriented culture, positive work environment, technical excellence, and resilient business ethics.

Primary Responsibilities

• This leadership position is dynamic, requiring assertiveness, strong technical competence, flexibility, impeccable prioritization abilities, personal drive and energy, and self-discipline. Working in this position, your workday will span jobs such as leading a Software Integrated Product Team (IPT), working across technical functions on cohesive integrated solutions on complex integrated systems, providing software program management, working closely with software and computing hardware architects, overseeing software systems engineers and lead software test engineers, and serving as Agile Product Owner.

• Product development will span the technology stack from high-level user applications to mission software to low-level embedded solutions to the computing hardware. Hardware may span front end tablets and laptops, rugged mission computers, high-performance servers, single-board computers (SBC), systems-on-chip (SoC), systems-on-module (SoM), custom printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA), and microcontrollers (MCU). Software capabilities span criticality levels and perform functions such as mission execution, power and thermal monitoring, sensors and instrumentation, telemetry, command and control, communications, networks, mission planning, and system infrastructures.

• This position will involve regular and direct contributions to proposals. This includes devising technical solutions, determining the approach to execution, schedule planning, software size and cost estimation, developing basis of estimates, team sizing, skills and staff planning, computer hardware and software requirements elicitation and analysis, and materiel planning.

• Direct communication with customers, end users, internal stakeholders, and team members will be required on a frequent basis.

• In this position you will enjoy significant influence on positive outcomes and a strong sense of purpose working directly on fieldable systems that are key to the nation’s defense.

Basic Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree or higher degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field is required.

• Candidate should have 12+ years of relevant technical experience or 10+ years with MS degree.

• Candidate should have 3+ years or relevant experience leading teams and managing resources for software development.

• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and team leadership skills.

• Candidate must demonstrate their ability to work independently, collaborate closely with team members, discern efficient roles and tasks for their team members, think critically, act confidently and judiciously, exercise impeccable judgement, consistently make rational decisions, and impart a productive sense of urgency to others.

• Experience in development of software products or simulations using C, C++, Rust, C#, or Java is required. Candidate must articulate strong competency in development in at least one of these programming languages, object-oriented design principles, and troubleshooting.

• Experience working on one or more final…