Senior Electrical Design & Integration Engineer

The Small Airborne Effectors Division within the Leidos Kinetic Effects Business Area is responsible for designing developing testing and producing small to medium airborne missiles unmanned vehicles and payload effectors for a wide variety of defense customers. Our team is seeking a Senior Electrical Design & Integration Engineer to work at our Huntsville AL campus providing support to a variety of design integration and test programs related to missile systems and unmanned aircraft. This role offers a wide variety of hands-on work spanning avionics integration test mission support and field operations in development prototype and production environments. This is a dynamic opportunity in which talented engineers can thrive working on a diverse array of multidisciplinary projects in the kinetic effectors arena. We are in search of a highly motivated trained and talented electrical engineer to lead a development and integration team of multidisciplined engineers and technicians and to foster advanced technology programs through the complete product lifecycle from research and development through full production.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design fabricate analyze and integrate hardware firmware and software solutions that successfully address a wide variety of customer challenges
• Test and troubleshoot hardware firmware and software in both 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/RF printed circuit board hardware design FPGA and hardware description language development 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 integrating hardware
• Work closely with manufacturing teams to facilitate the transition from prototype hardware to a deliverable product

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering from an ABET-accredited institution with 8 or more years of relevant experience or masters degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering from an ABET-accredited institution with 6 or more years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated capabilities in the following areas: electrical system design electrical circuit design and simulation hardware and software interface design and integration software or firmware development troubleshooting/debugging hardware/software in a lab and/or field environment
• Parts selection electrical schematic capture and wiring harness design experience
• Understanding of PC board layout design and SMT manufacturing experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Constructive collaboration within and among multi-disciplinary teams
• Availability to travel to support testing and other events (average 10%)
• US citizenship
• Active SECRET security clearance or the ability to obtain one

Preferred Qualifications

• RF and/or switching power supply design experience
• FPGA and HDL design experience
• Field testing and debugging
• Sensor instrumentation experience (acceleration velocity position pressure)
• Experience with development and testing of flight hardware
• Radio communication links and GPS/INS systems
• Rapid prototyping integration and test experience
• Requirements-based design and test planning
• Technical leadership

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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.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $107900.00 - $195050.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.

Required Experience:

Senior IC