Principal Autonomy and Resilient Systems Scientist (San Diego)

Senior Resilient Systems Scientist

Are you a motivated Principal Resilient Systems Scientist with a technical vision and hands-on knowledge of mission-focused systems? The Leidos Innovations Center's newly established Information and Data Science Division is seeking a Senior Resilient Systems Scientist to help lead strategic solution developments and projects. This role will drive capture of strategic customer-funded software R&D. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in developing technology-based approaches that yield novel, innovative capabilities while advancing the state of the art. We are looking for a proven researcher who can develop and lead a groundbreaking research portfolio using both internal and customer funding. Please note : This is an on-site role. The ideal candidate will be able to work out of our San Diego, CA; Arlington, VA or Dayton, OH offices. Occasional opportunity to telework may be available.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop innovative solutions to challenging problems of interest to the Defense Applied Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
• Engaging R&D customers and transition partners to understand technical gaps and needs for resilient systems solutions in mission critical systems.
• Lead and execute research in areas of naval surface platforms, autonomy, and resilient systems.
• Develop and deliver software products.
• Leading teams of researchers and engineers in the development, adaptation, and extension of innovative approaches to resilient systems solutions across a range of technical areas and application domains to advance the state of the art while addressing long-term problems of importance to national security such as embedded systems.
• Develop novel approaches for the generation of assurance evidence for critical software, at scale
• Collaborate in cross-discipline teams to deliver innovations that provide measurable resilient mission impact.
• To ensure technical relevancy, they will track software technology trends in the customer community and broader R&D communities as well as identify future software R&D funding opportunities.

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications