At Leidos, you'll contribute to AI solutions that serve critical national and global missions—ranging from defense and intelligence to healthcare, energy, and space exploration. Our work emphasizes Trusted Mission AI: systems that are transparent, ethical, resilient, and accountable. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to transition AI research into operational environments where accuracy, security, and reliability are non-negotiable. Joining Leidos means applying your expertise to solve some of the most complex and meaningful challenges of our time.
We are looking for a motivated ML Software / AI data engineer who wants to work on challenging problems in a variety of domains – including enterprise IT, health, defense, intelligence, and energy – to get results that apply and go beyond the state of the art for measurably better outcomes. We apply our knowledge, capabilities, and experience to develop and deploy Trusted Mission AI – AI that deserves to be trusted by system owners, end users, and the public – to be accurate, ethical, reliable, and adaptable. We are looking for an individual to work with a team to deliver secure data products for use by AI agents.
Primary Responsibilities.
- Work with a team of agentic AI scientists, agentic AI scientists, data scientists and data engineers on defining and creating scalable data processing pipelines to generate quality data for use by AI.
- Develop, operate, and maintain data architectures that support discovery and metadata tagging
- Design and implement data access controls to produce a data transformation pipeline that discovers, repairs, logs, and deploys quality data plus security policy metadata
- Analyze data provided to detect anomalies
- Work with a team to design, build, train, and evaluate machine learning models
- Communicate results and methods for solutions to internal and external stakeholders.
- Work within teams of AI/ML researchers and engineers using Agile development processes
Basic Qualifications.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science or related field and over 4+ years of relevant experience, or a Masters with 2+ years experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
- Strong Python programming fundamentals
- Experience with data repositories and ETL techniques
- Good understanding of machine learning algorithms, tools and platforms
- Experience with AI/ML tools, such as common Python packages (e.g., scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas)
- Experience with tabular data analysis using languages such as SQL, R, and/or Python
- Experience using generative AI and LLM-based tools
- Experience with statistical modeling and data analysis
- Experience applying data quality and data conditioning methods
- Understanding of transformers and foundation models
- Self-starter with high intellectual curiosity
- Great communication skills, able to explain model results to a non-technical audience
- Proficient in data exploration techniques and tools
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
Preferred Qualifications.
- Experience with data visualization libraries such as Plotly, Streamlit, and matplotlib.
- Experience with building LLM and other Generative AI applications.
- Willingness to learn new skills and platforms to support data analytics.
- Ability and willingness to obtain a Secret or Top Secret security clearance
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If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:August 29, 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.
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.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with multiple plan options, low office-visit copays in some plans, and access to mental health and wellness support tools. The availability of HSA/FSA options and employer contributions is positioned as a meaningful part of the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as a strong component of total rewards, highlighted by a 401(k) match and immediate vesting in the standard package. The Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also presented as an additional long-term wealth-building feature.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle supports extend beyond core insurance, including wellness programs, fitness-related stipends, and assistance resources. Work flexibility and related perks are also included as part of the broader rewards experience.
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What We Do
We Are Leidos 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. Your most important work is ahead.
