Aviation Software Engineer

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 Sector 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.  Within the Defense Sector, the Software Engineering Applications Department at Leidos currently has an opening for a talented 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 Agile development practices while actively contributing to the codebase. You'll 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.

Scrum Master & Agile Leadership: As the Scrum Master for your software team, you will facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. You'll manage backlog grooming sessions, ensure adherence to Agile principles, remove impediments, and foster continuous improvement in team processes. IPT Leadership & Strategic Decision-Making: Lead a Software Integrated Product Team (IPT) with authority to make high-level technical and programmatic decisions. You'll guide development strategies, establish architectural directions, resolve technical conflicts, and ensure cohesive integrated solutions on complex systems. Your leadership will span strategic planning, resource allocation, risk management, and defining the technical roadmap. Active Software Development: This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will actively contribute to the codebase, conducting design reviews, writing production code, performing code reviews, troubleshooting complex technical issues, and setting the standard for code quality and engineering excellence across the technology stack. Cross-Functional Coordination: Serve as the primary liaison coordinating between hardware engineers, test engineers, systems engineers, program management, and other engineering disciplines. You'll facilitate integration activities, resolve interface issues, align schedules across teams, and ensure seamless communication between technical stakeholders and leadership. Direct communication with customers, end users, internal stakeholders, hardware teams, test organizations, management, and team members will be required on a frequent basis to ensure alignment across all engineering disciplines.

Candidate must possess at least a bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree. Candidate should have 8+ years of relevant technical experience with demonstrated hands-on software development. Candidate should have 3+ years of relevant experience leading teams, managing resources for software development,