Aerospace Engineer Job at Leidos, Huntsville, AL

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  • Leidos
  • Huntsville, AL

Job Description

The Defense Sector at Leidos is seeking a talented Engineer for a full-time position in the Leidos Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence branch. You will work to solve complex engineering problems with a highly technical multidisciplinary team consisting of aerospace engineers computer scientists research scientists and statisticians. This group provides cutting-edge solutions to aerospace and defense problems such as autonomous battle management robotic vehicle guidance and model-based system identification.

For this position you must be able to be on-site daily at our work location in Huntsville AL. If you are not already local you would need to relocate to be considered.

Primary Responsibilities:

Employees in this role will work to develop solutions to aerospace and defense problems by applying a variety of engineering AI/ML and software technical general employees are regularly tasked to solve open-ended research problems across several different aerospace domains.

Each employee will utilize their technical skills as they work through tasks involving dynamical modeling and simulation machine learning (e.g. supervised learning reinforcement learning) algorithm development and data visualization. The aforementioned skills and solutions are expected to be implemented in software via programming languages such as Python.

To succeed in this role engineers are required to leverage internal resources (e.g. software toolkits) collaborate with peers and experienced professionals and learn independently. Each engineer should be able to comfortably and effectively communicate technical results of their analysis to peers.

Basic Qualifications:

  • US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance.
  • Bachelors degree and 2 years of prior relevant experience or Masters degree with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience.
  • Advanced proficiency in programming specifically including Python and MATLAB.
  • Fundamental understanding of mathematical concepts including linear algebra matrix math statistics trigonometry and coordinate frames.
  • Fundamental understanding of core aerospace concepts such as vehicle and attitude dynamics control systems and flight mechanics.
  • Computer Science / Math: Understanding of machine learning basics supervised learning reinforcement learning and statistics.
  • Ability to perform independent research to learn new skills.
  • Ability to work both in collaborative team environments and independently on open-ended research problems.
  • Effective technical communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • US Citizen with an active security clearance.
  • Research experience or prior internship positions.
  • Experience with C.
  • Experience with Linux.
  • Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git).

If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

April 16 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 $69550.00 - $125725.00

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:

IC

Job Tags

Full time, Internship, Local area, Relocation

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