Product Engineering Manager

The Undersea Systems Division at Leidos currently has an opening for Director of Product Engineering in our Lynnwood, WA location.  This is an exciting new role to transform new product ideas into viable, producible products on an accelerated development timeline, while establishing the technical architecture, baseline, processes, and organizational knowledge required to sustain and evolve those products throughout their life cycle. This position provides senior technical leadership from initial product concept through development, integration, production transition, and life-cycle support. The Director leads Integrated Product Teams and shapes product concepts, defines product requirements and architecture, establishes the developmental technical baseline, drives engineering execution and integration, and ensures products transition into production with the technical definition and organizational knowledge required for long-term success. The Director serves as the technical product leader for assigned products and product families, connecting customer needs, product strategy, systems engineering, engineering competencies, manufacturing, test, logistics, and life-cycle support into a coherent technical effort. The position is expected to operate effectively in an environment where product concepts may begin with significant ambiguity; the Director will provide technical direction, structure, and urgency necessary to convert those concepts into successful products—at speed and scale. The role combines product development leadership with life-cycle engineering ownership , ensuring that the organization not only delivers new products rapidly, but also builds the technical foundation necessary to maintain, improve, manufacture, support, and evolve those products over time. This is an opportunity for a builder and technical problem solver to transform a highly capable but largely reactive organization into a more disciplined, integrated, and scalable product-focused operation—without losing the flexibility and ingenuity required to solve difficult customer and production problems. The successful candidate will lead a team spanning systems engineering, design and development, integration, test, and validation, manufacturing and industrial engineering, production support, logistics, and technical support. What You'll Do – Primary Responsibilities Transform product concepts into viable, producible products using an accelerated, iterative development approach that balances technical rigor, risk, and speed. Shape and define new products by translating customer needs and operational objectives into product visions, CONOPS, requirements, architectures, interfaces, and development strategies. Assemble and lead multidisciplinary technical teams across systems, mechanical, electrical, software, test, manufacturing, logistics, and other engineering competencies to achieve product objectives. Drive rapid development, prototyping, integration, and demonstration, using early hardware/software to validate assumptions, retire risk, and progressively mature the technical baseline. Provide technical leadership from concept through production, making engineering decisions, resolving technical issues, managing technical risk, and maintaining momentum toward product delivery. Establish repeatable product-development processes spanning requirements, architecture, design, prototyping, integration, verification, manufacturing planning, production, configuration management, and change management. Drive transition into production, ensuring products are technically mature, manufacturable, testable, documented, configured, and supportable. Own the technical health of products throughout their life cycle, driving improvements in reliability, manufacturability, supportability, obsolescence, and product capability. Capture and institutionalize technical knowledge and reusable engineering practices, building organizational capability that