• Turn data into insights, insights into action, and engineering into robust, secure data solutions
• Kick‑start your career with hands‑on experience, training, and real responsibility 
• Must be an Australian Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance 

Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here https://www.leidos.com/company/global/australia/careers

Do Work That Matters

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life.  Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.

Your New Role and Responsibilities

As a Graduate Data Scientist or Graduate Data Engineer, you’ll join a collaborative analytics and data delivery team supporting mission‑critical programs for our customers. You’ll work on meaningful projects that turn data into insights, insights into action, and engineering into robust, secure data solutions.

Depending on your background and interests, you may focus on analytics, data modelling or data engineering—or build experience across all three as part of your early career development.

Key responsibilities:

For Graduate Data Scientists

• Analyse datasets to identify trends, patterns and anomalies
• Build, test and refine predictive, statistical and machine learning models
• Develop dashboards and visualisations for internal and customer reporting
• Contribute to analytical products that enhance decision‑making and operational outcomes

For Graduate Data Engineers

• Support the design, development and maintenance of secure data pipelines
• Assist in building, optimising and managing data platforms and ingestion frameworks
• Implement data quality, data governance and data transformation processes
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts and project teams to deliver integrated solutions

What You’ll Bring to Make An Impact

Due to the nature of the role, you must be an Australian Citizen and ability to obtain and maintain an active Top Secret AGSVA security clearance

This role is ideal for someone who is completing or has recently completed a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in a related discipline:

• Bachelor Data Science
• Bachelor Computer Science
• Bachelor Software Engineering
• Bachelor Statistics
• Bachelor Mathematics
• Bachelor Information Systems

Along with your education and any practical experience, Leidos values individuals who use their initiative and seek to understand the business and develop relationships based on respect.

Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes – if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application.  We’re most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and be willing to obtain and hold a TSPV security clearance. 

Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose

Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase – Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.

Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.

Next Steps

Recruitment Process

• Online Application: March-April
• Online Capability Assessment: April
• Final Stage Assessment: May
• Offer of Employment: June
• Keeping in Touch: June-February

We are committed to making our recruitment process and workplaces accessible to all candidates. Please contact our careers team [email protected] if you need any assistance throughout your application or interview process and/or to perform the essential functions of the role. 

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:

Pay Range:

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.