Electrical Design & Integration Engineer

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Responsibilities

• Design, fabricate, analyze, and integrate hardware, firmware, and software solutions that will successfully address a wide variety of customer challenges.
• Test and troubleshoot hardware, firmware, and software in lab and field environments.
• Design electrical and/or software architectures and integrated systems for real-time, mission-critical systems that include flight systems, sensors, ground vehicles, and ground control systems.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with project managers, customers, and team members to determine and develop hardware and software requirements.
• Contribute to system hardware and software architecture decisions based on customer performance requirements, schedule, and cost constraints including build vs. buy trades.
• Support task execution including electrical system design, avionics design, payload integration, analog/digital/PCB hardware design, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, system debugging, and systems engineering.
• Work independently as part of a broader multi-disciplined engineering team.
• Work collaboratively with project teams to formulate innovative solutions to complex problems and products across a broad range of applications.
• Coordinate with purchasing department and outside board/cable shops to procure hardware.
• Work in a lab environment testing and assembling hardware.
• Work closely with manufacturing teams to facilitate the transition from prototype hardware to a deliverable product.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an ABET accredited institution.
• Experience with one or more of the following areas: electrical system design, electrical circuit design and simulation, hardware and software interface design and integration, software development, troubleshooting/debugging hardware/software in a lab and/or field environment.
• Experience with constructive collaboration within and among multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time to support testing and other events.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship required.

Preferred

• Understanding of PC board layout design.
• Experience with parts selection, electrical schematic capture, wiring harness design, and SMT manufacturing.
• Experience with sensor instrumentation such as acceleration, velocity, position, and/or pressure.
• Experience with development and testing of flight hardware Experience with radio communication links and GPS/INS systems.
• Experience with rapid prototyping, integration, and test.
• Experience with requirements-based design and test planning.
• Experience with technical leadership.

Pay

Pay Range $57,850.00 - $104,575.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.

Original Posting

October 21, 2026 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.