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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.\nYour Greatest Work is Ahead!\nLeidos Defense is seeking a Systems Engineer to support an active Hypersonics production program. In this role, you'll work directly with the Lead Systems Engineer to manage the First Article Inspection (FAI) effort for the program, ensuring that production elements meet design criteria.\nYour Mission: Support the systems engineering team by developing FAI documentation and criteria, and helping coordinate the inspection event with the production element. You'll collaborate with Quality, Hardware Development, Integration, and Test, and Scheduling teams while gaining hands-on experience in production systems engineering. This could be a good opportunity for a Systems Engineer who wants to be more hands-on in a production environment, or a Quality Engineer who wants to learn more about Systems Engineering.\nWhy This Role Stands Out: Work on hypersonics technology in a matrixed organization supporting multiple programs across diverse engineering fields. Gain mentorship from senior engineers while building your SE expertise. When this program completes, transition to other exciting programs in our engineering portfolio and continue growing your career.\nIf this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, keep reading!\nLeidos 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.\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited university with 4+ years of experience or an MS with 2+ years of experience.\nDemonstrated ability to learn from peers and/or mentors.\nResident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama, AL area.\nPossess a secret clearance, or have the ability to obtain a secret clearance.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience working in a production environment, or with Quality Engineering processes.\nExperience in deriving requirements for integration, manufacturing, and production systems.\nManufacturing processes and procedures. \nMagicDraw and/or other Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) modeling tools.\nDemonstrated experience effectively leading a team of engineers.\nDemonstrated cross-discipline collaboration.\nDemonstrated experience accurately estimating the engineering effort (i.e. hours) associated with Systems Engineering tasks.\nDOORS and/or other requirements database tools.\nUnderstanding of the DoD acquisition processes and methods.\nExperience supporting one or more DoD programs.\nObject Management Group (OMG) Certified System Modeler Professional (OCSMP) certification.\nINCOSE Systems Engineering Professional (SEP) certification (ASEP or CSEP).\nAppKinetic\nIf 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.\nOriginal Posting:\nNovember 6, 2026For 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.\nPay Range:\nPay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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