Flight Software Development Lead - Airborne Systems

Description

The Airborne Systems Business Area in the Leidos Defense Sector currently has a special job opening for a capable 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.

Clearance Qualification.

Preferred Experience, Skills or Abilities.

Other Qualifications

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting : September 18, 2025

For U.S. Positions : While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range :

Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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.