Hardware/Software-in-the-Loop (HWIL/SWIL) Integration Lead

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. The Kinetic Effects Business Area in the Leidos Defense Sector currently has a special job opening for a talented Hardware/Software-in-the-Loop (HWIL/SWIL) Integration Lead to work onsite in our Huntsville, AL office in support of the Guided Munitions Center of Excellence. This is an exciting opportunity to use your knowledge, skills, and experience to architect and stand up the modular hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) and software-in-the-loop (SWIL) environments that enable rigorous, repeatable test and integration of guided munitions and related weapon systems. In this role you will define a common, modular core configuration that can be networked across Leidos and customer sites throughout the Huntsville area and reused across supported programs — allowing any given system under test to be exercised in a standardized, well-documented, and safety-conscious environment.

Serve as the technical lead and design authority for the Guided Munitions Center of Excellence HWIL and SWIL test environments, from concept through design, build, integration, and sustainment. Architect a modular test environment built around a common core configuration that can be networked across multiple Leidos and customer sites in the Huntsville area and reused across supported programs, so that a given system under test can be integrated and exercised in a standardized manner. Translate a Bill of Materials (BOM) into a coherent, documented design — ensuring the design intent is captured, engineering drawings and interface documentation are created, controlled, and followed, and that each HWIL/SWIL is constructed consistently against those drawings and configuration baselines. Establish and enforce standardization: reusable building blocks, common interfaces, naming and configuration conventions, and documented procedures that allow labs to be replicated and extended predictably across programs. Apply a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) to maximize reuse, interoperability, upgradability, and vendor independence across the test environment. Ensure the design and integration of the test environments account for safety-critical system considerations and applicable airworthiness/software assurance standards (e.g., DO-178C) as they apply to the systems under test and the test infrastructure. Develop and maintain the technical documentation baseline — architecture descriptions, interface control documentation, wiring/connection and assembly drawings, configuration baselines, and standard build/integration procedures. Plan and lead integration and checkout activities; define networking and connectivity between the core configuration and supported program assets across sites. Collaborate across software, hardware, systems, cybersecurity, and test teams, and interface directly with program leadership, customers, and end users to align the test environments with program needs. Contribute to proposals, technical planning, cost/schedule and materiel estimates, and standards development for the