Software Engineer Lead

About the role

Leidos Defense Systems is seeking a talented Software Engineer Lead to join a diverse team to create unique solutions for complex sensor and radar oriented problems. We have offices across the United States engaging in the defense, space, cyber and commercial fields, providing responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific and IT solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and sustainment of health and status monitoring applications support advanced technology radar programs.
• Development of software for high-speed data acquisition, distribution, and real-time processing.
• Integration of COTS and custom technologies into prototype sensor systems.
• Field testing of RF sensors and systems.
• Deployment of advanced sensor systems.
• Development of health and status monitoring user applications.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to a team of engineers, work closely with other skilled engineers as they deep-dive into existing software to find areas for improvement in both performance and processing latency.
• Guide architectural decisions, oversee implementation of scalable monitoring frameworks, and investigate and develop framework modifications to improve performance, reliability, and observability across radar programs.
• Serve as the primary technical authority for health and status monitoring capabilities, ensuring alignment with system requirements, operational needs, and long-term maintainability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science degree from an ABET-accredited school with a strong demonstration of the skills listed below plus 4–8 years of experience in software development, including technical leadership experience.
• Proven experience leading software engineering teams, including tasking, mentoring, code reviews, configuration management, and driving technical execution.
• Strong Teamwork Skills And Demonstrated Expertise In The Following Modern C++ Development, Real-time Linux and device driver development, ZeroMQ messaging and pub/sub frameworks, Higher-level user application development particularly health/status monitoring or visualization tools, Containerization, Cloud-architecture & networking.
• Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess (as well as maintain) a Final Secret Clearance.
• Candidate must be a resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville – North Alabama, AL, area.

Preferred Qualifications

• Candidate with additional skills in the following is preferred: MATLAB, Familiarity with Gitlab Pipeline development, Experience with system health monitoring frameworks, telemetry pipelines, or observability platforms.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this job level is $87,100.00 - $157,450.00. 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.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.