Principal Manufacturing & Autonomy Research 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.

The ideal candidate will be able to work out of our office(s) in either San Diego, CA or Arlington, VA

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

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