Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place. This starts with helping our customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. Our dedicated Defense Sector employees are solving critical challenges across the globe. At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success.  We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. With offices across the United States engaging in the defense, space, cyber and commercial fields, Leidos provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific and IT solutions. Leidos is well known for our people-oriented culture, positive work environment, technical excellence, and resilient business ethics.  

Within the Defense Sector, the Kinetic Effects Business Area at Leidos currently has an opening for a talented Airborne Software Engineer to support work in our Huntsville, AL office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help design, develop, and integrate software for tactical strike, sensors, CUAS, and UAS solutions. 

​This position focuses on the development of new, robust, innovative flight and mission software solutions for airborne systems using open systems approaches. The position also includes fielding, support, and maintenance of software products. This position pertains to the full stack of software products that range from embedded hardware support packages, firmware integration, real-time operating systems, flight software, distributed C2 software, analysis tools/simulations, mission software, and components of mission-critical systems. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• This position involves conceptual design across the full stack of software for airborne systems, embedded software architectural design, code implementation, team peer review, unit testing, cohesive integration of loosely coupled software modules within subsystems and across distributed networks, use of DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, and development of software tools, harnesses, and infrastructures to support a fully integrated solution. 
• Direct communication with customers, end users, internal stakeholders, and team members will be required on a frequent basis. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Must be US Citizen.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain DoD Secret security clearance.
• Must be local to Huntsville, AL or willing to relocate.
• Must possess at least a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree with an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher. 
• Must have 0+ years of relevant technical experience.   
• Proven track record of implementing software according to high quality development principles.  
• Strong competency in software development in either C, C++, Java, or Python programming languages. 
• Working knowledge of inter-process communication, multithreaded programming, and memory management.  
• Experience writing unit and integration tests with unit test frameworks.  
• Possess an aptitude for the technical skills required for software development, configuration management, and software quality engineering concepts.  
• Possess an aptitude for the technical skills required for software test and software quality engineering concepts.  
• Strong analytical and process improvement skills along with a personal drive for details and quality workmanship.  
• Ability to accept constructive feedback from more senior software team members.  
• Demonstrate familiarity with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).  
• Have excellent teamwork and communication skills. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with applicable industry standards (IEEE 12207, CMMI, DO-178C and/or DO-278, RMF).   
• The ability to work across multiple products under development by multiple small teams.  

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Original Posting:

April 23, 2026

Pay Range:

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.