Lead Systems Engineer - RF Systems

Description

Leidos is a FORTUNE 500 company bringing a mix of innovative technology and sector expertise to customers in the national security, engineering, and health industries. We deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. Guided by our Mission, Vision, and Values, Leidos empowers its teams, contributes to its communities, and operates sustainably‑always with a commitment to doing the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community.

Leidos is a FORTUNE 500 company bringing a mix of innovative technology and sector expertise to customers in the national security, engineering, and health industries. We deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. Guided by our Mission, Vision, and Values, Leidos empowers its teams, contributes to its communities, and operates sustainably‑always with a commitment to doing the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community.

The Leidos Intel Sector combines technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities to support Intelligence Community customers as they address evolving national security challenges.

Leidos is seeking a highly experienced Lead Systems Engineer - RF Systems to plan and lead systems engineering activities supporting complex mission capabilities. You will translate user needs, Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), and high-level architectures into well-defined system requirements while providing technical leadership across design, integration, verification, implementation, and lifecycle engineering activities.

In this role, you will work across hardware, software, facilities, personnel, security, and operational considerations to maintain the technical integrity of complex systems. You will collaborate with Government stakeholders, developers, engineers, program personnel, and senior leaders to resolve technical issues, evaluate alternatives, manage interfaces and requirements, and guide engineering activities supporting mission delivery.

Complex RF and mission systems depend on disciplined systems engineering to keep requirements, architectures, interfaces, technologies, and operational needs aligned throughout the system lifecycle.

As a Lead Systems Engineer - RF Systems, you will bring extensive engineering judgment to that challenge-helping ensure requirements remain traceable, interfaces are fully defined, technical risks are understood, system baselines remain controlled, engineering decisions consider lifecycle impacts, and solutions can be verified against mission requirements.

• Analyze user requirements, CONOPS, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications.

• Guide users and stakeholders in formulating requirements, evaluating alternative approaches, and assessing technical feasibility.

• Manage system and derived requirements to support delivery of production systems compatible with defined system architectures.

• Assist in developing system and functional requirements and allocating them to hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.

• Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements and ensure they are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable.

• Identify functions implied by system requirements and stakeholder needs that are essential to overall system effectiveness.

• Establish disciplined requirements-change processes that evaluate impacts before commitment, maintain traceability to source requirements, reduce ambiguity, gain stakeholder…