The Defense Sector at Leidos has an immediate opportunity for a

Subject Matter Expert: Fighter / Bomber Mission Planning. You will be part of a highly focused and diverse team of systems engineers, government program managers, software development teams, and security test engineers. In this opportunity you will also serve as systems engineer providing leadership to peer engineers, testers, and end users with proposed solutions to complex engineering and integration problems. The enterprise utilizes leading edge methodologies for Agile and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Leidos provides a real work-life balance with options for compressed work schedules and flexible hours. The primary job location is Fort Walton Beach, FL (Eglin AFB area) but other areas will be considered.

Primary Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be energetic, organized, eager to learn and comfortable working & speaking in a team environment, placing a high value on collaboration and team success. Core responsibilities include:

• Serve as a SME and SE for Mission Planning software development.
• Support Agile Product Manager/Systems Engineer/Release Train Manager with a collection of products representing the client stakeholders to the development team to include product vision, design, development, testing and sustainment.
• Create Technical Requirements Backlogs, Statements of Work, Contract Data Requirements Lists and other documentation in support of new Mission Planning Delivery Orders.
• Coordinate with enterprise stakeholders to prioritize product backlogs for sprints and releases.
• Generate Mission Threads, use cases and requirements packages as applicable and managing those requirements and their traceability.
• Identify and manage internal and external dependencies.
• Analyze software development metrics, report results, and recommend corrective actions.
• Utilize common Mission Planning processes while facilitating a continuous learning culture to help drive improvement of those processes.
• Understanding and leveraging an Enterprise Product approach to identify requirements that represent a gap in capabilities and opportunities for reuse.
• Report the technical status of product development to the key stakeholders.
• Evaluate technical proposals and other technical data items, to include architecture, requirements documents, designs, test plans/reports, and process descriptions.
• Represent the Government customer in Product Management (with content authority for the Program Backlog).
• Responsible for identifying Customer needs, prioritizing Features, guiding the work through the Program level processes, and developing the program Vision and Roadmap consistent with the Solution Intent and Context.
• Collaborating to ensure appropriate value is being provided via working software and products (including documentation).
• Attend Product Owner Scrum meetings and participate in Program Increment (PI) planning events.
• Support the Engineering role as an individual or part of a small team that defines a shared technical and architectural vision for the System/Solution under development.
• Participate in determining the system, subsystems, and interfaces, validate technology assumptions and evaluate alternatives while working closely with other Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Solution Trains.

Basic Qualifications:

• US Citizen with at least an active Secret clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.
• Bachelor’s Degree with 4+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2+ years of prior relevant experience. Additionl experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Fighter or bomber aircrew (pilot, weapons system officer, etc.) experience.
• Expertise in fighter or bomber mission planning at the unit level, wing level, or AOC level.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, and other systems engineers in the development of complex software systems.
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).

Preferred Qualifications:

• US Citizen with an active TS/SCI clearance.
• B-1, B-52, F-15, or F-22 experience is highly desired.
• Experience with Scrum at Scale or SAFe Agile processes is highly desired.
• Experience with Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence is highly desired.
• Knowledge of software testing and/or cybersecurity concepts.
• Knowledge of software and systems engineering processes for the software development life cycle.
• General familiarity of the DoD system development and acquisition processes.
• General familiarity with DoD technical order system and processes.

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Original Posting:

March 12, 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 $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

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.