Description Looking for an opportunity to make an impact?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 sustainable. 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.
Are you ready for your next career challenge?Leidos Defense provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world's toughest security challenges for customers with "can't fail" missions.
Leidos Defense is seeking an
Electrical Design Engineer to join our Huntsville team. If you're the person with a bench full of side projects and you'd rather build the thing than hand it off, read on.
The roleYou'll own electrical designs from the first block diagram to a working prototype on the bench. That means choosing off-the-shelf parts where they fit, designing custom circuits where they don't, building and testing your own hardware, and documenting it so it's ready for production. The work spans power, RF, controls, and analog and digital design.
What you'll do- Own designs end to end: requirements, architecture, schematics, prototyping, test, and release
- Solve complex electrical problems with off-the-shelf parts or custom solutions
- Work across power distribution, RF design, logic/controls, and custom analog and digital circuits
- Build, bring up, and debug prototypes, then iterate quickly
- Test with VNAs, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, multimeters, and lab power supplies/loads
- Create block diagrams for top-level systems and lower-level sub-assemblies
- Document and release designs in KiCAD, SolidWorks Electrical, Visio, or similar
- Team up with project teams on a broad range of products and applications
Basic Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a STEM discipline from an ABET-accredited school with 4+ years of directly applicable experience, or an MS with 2+ years of relevant experience
- Demonstrated design work in a CAD package similar to SolidWorks and SolidWorks Electrical
- Strong understanding of electrical system-level design
- Ability to design for rapid prototyping and fabrication in a dynamic environment
- U.S. Citizen with a Final Secret clearance, or eligibility to obtain and maintain one
- Resident of, or willing to relocate to, the Huntsville, AL area
You'll stand out if you- Have side projects you're proud of, such as custom PCBs, RF experiments, robotics, power supplies, or test fixtures, and can show them off
- Are as comfortable with a soldering iron and scope as with a CAD station
- Have designed power, data, and RF systems, including 3-phase, split-phase, and DC power
- Read and draw electrical schematics and cable diagrams, and know some fiber optic communications
- Have used KiCAD, Mentor DxDesigner, Altium, OrCAD, or similar, plus 2D/3D CAD like SolidWorks, SolidWorks Electrical, AutoCAD, or Visio
- Understand basic mechanical concepts well enough to work smoothly with mechanical designers
- Can document designs, assist with Technical Data Packages (TDPs), and support production and test
- Hold an active Secret clearance or higher
Show us what you've built. Include links to side projects, a portfolio, or GitHub with your application. We care about what you can do, not just where you've done it.
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:October 26, 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.
About LeidosLeidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
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