Join Our Team as an MDS Systems Engineer at Leidos
Are you passionate about transforming complex systems into groundbreaking solutions? At Leidos, we invite you to take center stage in an environment where innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence drive our mission. As an MDS Systems Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in evolving our system architecture to meet dynamic challenges, working alongside a team of seasoned experts committed to excellence.
What You'll Do
- Drive System Evolution: Define and refine system requirements while investigating transformative changes in our MDS environment. Your keen analytical skills will help set the stage for groundbreaking enhancements.
- Collaborate Across Disciplines: Engage with a diverse group of stakeholders, gathering insights and prioritizing modifications that span new capabilities, external mandates, and essential fixes.
- Champion Rigorous Analysis: Conduct comprehensive systems requirements assessments, functional and timeline analyses, and in-depth trade studies. Your expertise in requirements allocation and interface definition will shape the future of our technology.
- Ensure Excellence in Execution: Lead technical management efforts, integration initiatives, rigorous system testing, and robust quality assurance to maintain our standards of excellence and reliability.
Note: This is a telecommuting position that requires candidates be within reasonable commuting distance of Virginia Beach VA.
Basic Qualifications:
- A Bachelor’s degree coupled with 4-8 years of relevant experience, with a foundation built on substantial MDS expertise.
- Strong grasp of the TWS system, TMPC, and especially MDS is essential. You should be comfortable with technical planning and adept in system hardware, software, and network design, from development through integration to validation.
- Proven experience in assessing alternatives, including cost, risk, and supportability analyses, ensuring you can confidently recommend and implement the best course of action.
- Requires a current Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret SCI security clearance after hiring.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with MDS operations within the fleet, strategic insights into strike planning, and an in-depth understanding of the TMPC installation process will set you apart.
Why Leidos?
At Leidos, your work will have a direct impact on shaping critical systems that drive tomorrow's innovations. If you're ready to harness your expertise to influence change, drive excellence, and elevate your career, join us in delivering advanced solutions that matter.
Step into a role where every day is a chance to innovate, collaborate, and lead. Transform systems. Transform futures. Transform your career at Leidos.
Are you curious about how your work might integrate with emerging technologies or have questions about career growth within such a dynamic field? Let’s dig deeper into what excites you most about this opportunity or explore other innovative projects on the horizon.
Original Posting:June 2, 2025For 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 $104,650.00 - $189,175.00The 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.
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For 50 years we have been tackling some of the biggest problems that face our nation and our world.
OUR MISSION
Through our culture of innovation and history of performance, we develop deep customer trust built on integrity and create enduring solutions that improve our world. Leidos is a science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020.
Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®.
Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the newly launched Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos.
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