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Electrical Engineer · Leidos

Excerpts from a public resume and real job posting review. Application questions are unanswered.

How does your application read?

See the strengths and evidence gaps found in the job posting and resume.

Leidos Electrical Engineer

Verify Eligibility Before Applying

Top 76-88%

Executive summary

You submitted a mock application for Leidos's Electrical Engineer role. The clearest strength from your resume is your sensor-integration work on The College Challenge: Vehicular Tunnel Catwalk Robotics, where your finalist team was awarded $10,000 to prototype a tunnel-monitoring robot. A deeper reviewer would want your individual integration decisions, actual bench measurements, and one documented troubleshooting example.

Scores, rankings, interviewers and hiring stages are AI analysis and simulations, not the employer’s assessment or hiring outcome.

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Review the recommendation and what to improve before applying.

Top 76-88%

Benchmarked against similar applicants

Unverified current DoD Top Secret clearance and a degree expected in May 2027 limit this Top 76-88% application. Your robotics and hardware projects offer useful starting evidence. Confirm the eligibility requirements first, then revise the robotics bullets to separate your own design decisions from planned work.

Evidence

The $10,000 finalist-team award and named sensor design make your hands-on interests more concrete than a skills-only resume, helping support the Top 76-88% standing. Because the award belongs to a team and the prototype work is ongoing, it does not establish your individual integration results.

Fix before applying

Add your actual current clearance and U.S. citizenship status to the application answers without substituting eligibility to obtain clearance.

Keep **May 2027** explicit in Education and separate Technical Solutions Intern and Undergraduate Research Assistant experience from tutoring tenure.

Likely recruiter email

Not ready yet

A realistic next-step email for this report signal.

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Decision regarding your Electrical Engineer application at Leidos

Marcus Johnson

marcus.johnson@leidos.com

Now

Hi, Thank you for your interest in the Electrical Engineer role at Leidos. We appreciate the time you put into your application and the context you shared through your resume and answers. The strongest signal we saw was Your multi-sensor robotics work provides transferable hardware integration evidence. At the same time, this search needs clearer evidence around Your current DoD Top Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship are not established, and that gap made it difficult to move forward for this specific opening. We have decided to continue with candidates whose recent experience more directly matches the current needs of the team. This is a role-specific decision, not a broader judgment on your overall potential. We appreciate your interest in Leidos and hope you will consider future roles that align more closely with your experience. Best, Leidos Recruiting Team

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Each hiring stage looks for different evidence.

See the strengths and concerns at each hiring stage.

Likely Blocked By Unverified Eligibility

Your resume has useful first-pass signals for Electrical Engineer at Leidos, particularly robotics, oscilloscopes, and hardware upgrades. The most likely early obstacle is an unresolved qualification check, not whether your SharePoint bullets are polished enough.

“Designing multi-sensor system (thermal imaging, air quality, RealSense cameras, CO detectors).”

“The robotics project and server build are worth discussing, but I cannot establish the required current clearance from this resume. I also need to check the May 2027 graduation date against this program's qualification requirements.”

Benchmarked against similar applicants

Recruiter screen

Likely stop

Leidos's recruiter would check the **current DoD Top Secret clearance requirement**, citizenship, and availability before relying on your robotics keywords. Clarify these facts directly; the general company description of hybrid work does not override this Huntsville onsite posting.

Hiring manager review

On the edge

If initial requirements are resolved, the Leidos program hiring manager would examine whether your **personal delivery scope** supports day-to-day hardware build-outs and deployment support. Separate what you owned, what teammates owned, and what reached a usable handoff so the manager can judge supervision needs.

Technical interviews

Likely stop

If you reach the engineers, Leidos's specialty-focused discussion would probe **measurement choices and fault isolation** behind your oscilloscopes, circuits, and multi-sensor claims. Prepare an actual project troubleshooting sequence and distinguish demonstrated techniques from hypothetical RF reasoning; the supplied hiring information does not establish a fixed technical interview duration.

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What the hiring manager actually thinks

Likely read

I scan your resume for hands-on hardware work, pause at the clearance and degree requirements, and decide whether to advance you for Electrical Engineer at Leidos.

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First glance

OK, your resume says Computer Engineering Student at Stevens Institute of Technology, with a 3.95/4.0 GPA. Good academic signal, but your degree completion is May 2027, and I need to check that against our education and experience requirements.

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Reject — required clearance is unverified, your degree is in progress, and relevant RF integration experience is not documented

I archive your application and move on without scheduling a phone screen. Before you reapply, I need truthful eligibility details and concrete hardware testing evidence in your resume; wording changes alone cannot resolve unmet requirements.

Look beyond the overall score.

Explore scores and reasons for four of the report’s 14 dimensions.

Dimension	Score	Notes
Recruiter Clarity	86 /100	Your clear sections and short bullets make the supplied resume easy to scan, and the team award is visible. Moving hardware projects ahead of less relevant employment would help a recruiter find the strongest evidence for this role faster.
Evidence & Credibility	75 /100	The $10,000 team award and retrieval of 10 years of patent data provide concrete scope without implausible claims. Your performance and accuracy improvements need measured outcomes or narrower wording so reviewers can distinguish goals from verified results.
Technical Depth	68 /100	Your robotics project names RealSense cameras and several sensor types, giving reviewers concrete technical material. Explain design tradeoffs and measurements to show why you chose the interfaces and how you checked their behavior.
Role Fit	42 /100	Your sensor integration and hardware upgrades overlap with practical integration work, but neither establishes professional RF experience. Confirm current DoD Top Secret clearance, citizenship, and the education requirement before treating this as an actionable match.

See what lifted the score and what held it back.

Compare the reasons behind the strongest and weakest scores.

Why this score

What helped your application, and what kept it from the top band.

Top strengths

Weakest points

Recruiter Clarity

Your clear sections and short bullets make the supplied resume easy to scan, and the team award is visible. Moving hardware projects ahead of less relevant employment would help a recruiter find the strongest evidence for this role faster.

+8 vs benchmark

Answer Quality

No saved answers are available to explain your engineering decisions or address the posting's constraints. Supply a specific project walkthrough with your contribution, an actual test, and its result; this score reflects missing evidence, not your writing ability.

+0 vs benchmark

Stakeholder Impact

Your employee resources and departmental calendar identify practical internal users, while tutoring names students and their progress. Translate that user awareness into how a hardware issue affects deployment, maintenance, or customer acceptance.

+9 vs benchmark

Completeness

Your resume sections cover education, employment, skills, and projects, but the supplied package contains no saved answers. Eligibility and availability also remain unstated, leaving the recruiter without information needed for this particular screen.

+7 vs benchmark

Evidence & Credibility

The $10,000 team award and retrieval of 10 years of patent data provide concrete scope without implausible claims. Your performance and accuracy improvements need measured outcomes or narrower wording so reviewers can distinguish goals from verified results.

+2 vs benchmark

Role Fit

Your sensor integration and hardware upgrades overlap with practical integration work, but neither establishes professional RF experience. Confirm current DoD Top Secret clearance, citizenship, and the education requirement before treating this as an actionable match.

+2 vs benchmark

Find the experience worth bringing forward.

Find the experience to lead with in your resume and introduction.

Highlights

Here are the key highlights surfaced from your resume. Treat them as strengths to emphasize in personal statements or interviews.

Your multi-sensor robot is transferable integration evidence for the hardware coordination this role requires.

Your server hardware upgrade is practical build evidence relevant to this role's hands-on expectations.

Connect the role’s language to your experience.

See the role keywords that connect the posting to your experience.

Key ATS keyword matches

High-relevance keywords aligned with the job posting. Highlight them in interviews or intros, keeping usage natural.

rf systems

system integration

oscilloscopes

troubleshooting

Keep the strengths that already work.

Identify strengths to keep and weaknesses to address.

Strengths

Your multi-sensor robotics work provides transferable hardware integration evidence.

Your server conversion supports hands-on hardware aptitude.

Weaknesses

Your current DoD Top Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship are not established.

Your degree remains in progress, with completion expected in May 2027.

Understand the difference from comparable applications.

Compare strengths and missing evidence against a benchmark, not actual applicants.

How you compare

Against similar applicants, your robotics sensor work and completed server conversion give you a more concrete hands-on story than a resume built only around coursework. Your Top 76-88% standing places this application around the middle of the benchmark range, rather than establishing that you meet Leidos's screening requirements. The single most consequential change is to resolve and accurately document your actual current DoD Top Secret clearance status, because no project rewrite can replace that requirement.

You already have

Named physical components make your robotics story concrete: thermal imaging, air quality, RealSense cameras, and CO detectors. That is a useful starting point for Leidos's hardware integration discussions.

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Closest winning profile

You have physical hardware work through RAM, SSD, and HDD upgrades in Multifunctional Home Server Build. That overlaps with the practical build-and-configure aspect of the posting.

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What stronger applicants showed

Stronger comparable applications would establish current DoD Top Secret clearance and the required citizenship directly. Your resume leaves both unknown, creating a screening issue separate from technical potential.

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What nearby hires had

A useful hired-profile reference for this requisition is someone who can enter a cleared, onsite program with the stated eligibility already established. Your application currently supplies no basis to place you in that category.

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Level read

How senior this application reads today, and what would make it feel closer to the next level.

Junior

Mid

Senior

Staff

Principal

Now · Junior

Your resume places you in an active student trajectory, with a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering expected in May 2027. The 3.95/4.0 GPA supports academic readiness but does not establish independent engineering delivery.

Stretch · Mid

Your robotics project does not yet establish who set acceptance criteria, resolved conflicting requirements, or approved integration decisions. A higher-scope account would show you owning those decisions and coordinating the resulting work across hardware and software contributors.

Most similar applicants land at Junior · Top 76-88% reach Mid

Find the parts a reviewer may question.

Find vague outcomes and missing context a reviewer may question.

Points to review

Potential risk signals in the resume. Double-check them before you submit to improve clarity and credibility.

Medium

Overall

Missing core section

Eligibility information is missing from the supplied package. Leidos requires a current DoD Top Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship, and your onsite and travel availability also needs confirmation.

Too few details

Your education lists the degree, while the structured date places completion in May 2027. Make expected graduation explicit in the displayed text because this posting requests a completed degree and relevant experience.

"Bachelor of Engineering: Computer Engineering"

Make claims specific and cut what adds little.

Compare claims needing evidence and lines to cut with their suggested edits.

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Needs proof

Broad Performance Language Outruns Available Project Evidence

Proof

Your About section claims scalable, high-performance solutions, but the projects do not provide performance measurements or operational scale. A Leidos engineer could ask for the acceptance threshold behind that language and find only a description of intended functionality.

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Replace the broad performance claim with your documented robotics sensor design and server hardware upgrades. Add a measured result later only when you can explain how you obtained it.

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Lines to cut

Replace Unsupported Scale And Performance Language First

Gap

scalable, high-performance solutions

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Replace this phrase with robotics sensor design, embedded systems, and hands-on computer hardware upgrades. This wording stays within your listed experience and points the reader toward evidence they can inspect.

Turn role gaps into preparation work.

See the missing requirements and short- and long-term ways to address them.

Your current clearance, citizenship, degree completion, and deployment availability are not established against the Electrical Engineer requirements at Leidos.

Short-term

Map your Stevens Institute of Technology degree status and Port Authority of NY & NJ technical placement against Leidos's completed-degree and relevant-experience requirements, separating tutoring from engineering work in a dated qualification evidence table.

Long-term

Track completion of your Stevens Institute of Technology degree against Leidos's bachelor's qualification, using actual academic records rather than projected completion claims in a graduation verification packet containing the final transcript when available.

Your sensor and server projects provide transferable hardware evidence, but your resume does not establish RF fundamentals, schematic interpretation, or RF bench testing.

Short-term

Inventory the actual interfaces and power connections in The College Challenge: Vehicular Tunnel Catwalk Robotics against Leidos's integration and cabling duties, distinguishing designed connections from assembled ones in a labeled interface diagram and connection-status table.

Long-term

Build a low-voltage sensor-input test fixture for The College Challenge: Vehicular Tunnel Catwalk Robotics under appropriate lab supervision, exercising Leidos's bench-testing expectations with a test procedure, oscilloscope captures, and a measured pass/fail table.

Anticipate where an interviewer may probe.

Anticipate follow-up questions about your ownership and decisions.

The technical interviewer will probe sensor choices behind your ongoing robotics design

Technical

→ Rehearse The College Challenge: Vehicular Tunnel Catwalk Robotics as problem → alternatives → chosen tradeoff → observed result. Use only a decision you actually made, and label unfinished verification. Bring an existing sensor diagram or prepare a factual one, with test evidence only where available.

Prepare experience stories for likely questions.

Review interviewer focus areas, likely questions, and experience stories to prepare.

Expected interviewers and interview rounds

Recruiter

Recruiter screening

45 min

What gets tested

For Electrical Engineer at Leidos, this seat checks relevant experience, availability, location, and the stated current clearance requirement before a program discussion. The supplied hiring guidance emphasizes Eligibility for the specific program's citizenship, clearance, and work-location requirements where stated; these are separate from your robotics strengths.

How to answer

Give direct, factual answers about current clearance, citizenship, May 2027 graduation, and Huntsville and travel availability before summarizing your projects. Use Pinnacle Scholar and the 3.95/4.0 GPA as concise evidence of your academic position, then identify your hardware work without suggesting those distinctions replace eligibility.

Hiring manager

Hiring-manager interview

45 min

What gets tested

The Leidos program hiring manager probes Ownership of engineering decisions through your personal contribution, design tradeoffs, test results, and response to failures. For this RF deployment seat, the manager needs to connect your project scope to build-outs, upgrades, and usable handoffs rather than relying on the finalist award.

How to answer

Use The College Challenge: Vehicular Tunnel Catwalk Robotics to map your responsibility, teammate boundaries, and the current completion state. Preserve the $10,000 team attribution and rehearse one real decision as problem, alternatives, your choice, and observed result; identify uncompleted tests explicitly.

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Likely questions

For The College Challenge: Vehicular Tunnel Catwalk Robotics, what drove your choice of sensor combination rather than a simpler configuration, and which failure mode would determine whether the robot's readings could support a reliable tunnel-monitoring decision?

In Multifunctional Home Server Build, why convert the Dell desktop instead of choosing a different hardware setup, and what verification evidence would separate a successful RAM, SSD, and HDD upgrade from a system that merely boots?

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Stories to prep

The College Challenge: Vehicular Tunnel Catwalk Robotics

Use this story for Leidos hiring-manager questions about **individual ownership and hardware/software interfaces**. It also supports technical discussion of sensor selection, provided you distinguish ongoing design from tested behavior.

Open with the tunnel-monitoring objective and the finalist team's $10,000 prototype award, preserving the team attribution.

Identify your actual contribution to the thermal imaging, air quality, RealSense cameras, or CO detector design and explain one alternative you genuinely considered.

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Questions you should ask them

Use these to make the conversation sharper, more specific, and more senior.

For Electrical Engineer at Leidos, which build-out or deployment decision would you expect a new hire to own during the first three months, and what evidence would make you comfortable reducing review?

Why

This connects your ongoing robotics design to the hiring manager's need for dependable day-to-day ownership. The answer reveals the actual independence bar and whether your completed server project is an adequate starting point.

Choose what to fix first.

Start with two prioritized improvements and their suggested edits.

Best fixes before you apply

The changes most likely to improve this application before you send it.

Add a verified eligibility sentence to your profile only after confirming current clearance, citizenship, Huntsville availability, and travel willingness. These are recruiter-screen requirements for Electrical Engineer at Leidos; leave unknown facts explicitly unresolved.

Draft one eligibility sentence for my profile using only clearance, citizenship, onsite availability, and travel facts I confirm; return a separate question list for missing facts and invent no answers.

Revise your Stevens Institute of Technology education entry to say the Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering is expected in May 2027. Separate relevant technical experience from total employment tenure so Leidos can assess the stated qualification requirement accurately.

Rewrite my Stevens Institute of Technology education entry as two bullets with expected May 2027 graduation and the existing GPA and honors; do not describe the degree as completed or tutoring as engineering experience.

Plan the last 30 minutes before applying.

Pick a task to start from the report’s 30-minute preparation plan.

Resolve The Required Eligibility Answers First

Spend the first ten minutes recording your actual current clearance, citizenship, Huntsville availability, and travel readiness in the application-answer draft. Keep May 2027 visible in Education and compare your actual background with the degree and relevant experience requirement. If you do not hold the required current clearance, prioritize roles without that prerequisite.

Move Hardware Evidence Above General Workflow Work

Spend the next ten minutes placing The College Challenge: Vehicular Tunnel Catwalk Robotics and Multifunctional Home Server Build where they are easy to find. Preserve the $10,000 team attribution, name your actual contribution, and retain present tense for ongoing robotics work. Shorten the SharePoint and CMS coverage without changing what you did at Port Authority of NY & NJ.

Bring your experience into one career story.

Connect recurring strengths in your experience to your next role.

Career narrative

Your trajectory combines service work with increasingly technical projects. At Kumon North America, Inc., you supported students and tracked progress before moving into automated data retrieval at Stevens Institute of Technology, where you processed 10 years of patent data. Start by confirming those requirements and turning your existing robotics work into a verified contribution record that distinguishes completed hardware from planned capabilities.

Explore fields where your experience may transfer.

Explore fields where your experience transfers, with reasons for each suggestion.

Recommended industries

Industries that best match your background and achievements.

Robotics

Match 94%

Your work on The College Challenge: Vehicular Tunnel Catwalk Robotics combines multi-sensor design with ongoing perception and navigation development.

Logistics & Transportation

Match 90%

Your Port Authority of NY & NJ internship and tunnel-monitoring prototype provide direct exposure to a transportation organization and its operating environment.