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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 Open Sensors Division is seeking a Software Architect to join a diverse team to create unique solutions for complex sensor and radar orientated problems. This position affords new or experienced engineers continued opportunities to learn and grow in technical knowledge of sensor and radar systems. The department encourages and frequently incorporates new ideas from all employees into our many sensor projects which span the entire DoD ecosystem. Opportunities for advancement into senior technical roles, as well as project or personnel management are also available.\nIf this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, keep reading!\nLeidos Defense Sensors 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. To explore and learn more, click here!\nAre you ready to make an impact? Share your resume with us today!\nPrimary Responsibilities\nIntegration and field testing of RF sensors and systems\nCONUS deployment of advanced sensor systems\nDefine and maintain the overall architecture, technical roadmap, and design standards for software products and systems.\nAnalyze customer system and operational requirements to develop effective software architectures and technical solutions.\nDevelop and document system architectures, software designs, interface definitions, data flows, deployment architectures, and technology selections.\nEstablish architectural principles, coding standards, design patterns, and best practices that promote reliability, security, scalability, maintainability, and performance.\nLead technical design reviews and provide guidance on complex design, integration, and implementation decisions.\nWork with development teams to decompose system-level requirements into implementable software features, components, interfaces, and tasks.\nEvaluate technology options, third-party products, frameworks, and tools; recommend solutions based on program needs, risk, cost, schedule, and maintainability.\nSupport the definition and management of software interfaces, APIs, data models, and integration approaches across subsystems.\nIdentify technical risks, architectural constraints, dependencies, and opportunities early; develop mitigation strategies and communicate them to program leadership.\nEnsure that cybersecurity, resiliency, safety, performance, and testability considerations are built into architectural decisions.\nCollaborate with other program teams to support deployment, monitoring, sustainment, and continuous improvement.\nReview code and technical artifacts as needed to ensure alignment with the established architecture and engineering standards.\nMentor software engineers and technical leads, helping build architectural knowledge and technical depth across the organization.\nCommunicate technical approaches, tradeoffs, risks, and status clearly to engineering leadership, program management, customers, and other stakeholders.\nBasic Qualifications\n MS degree from an ABET-accredited college or university in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field and 10-13 years of relevant experience -OR- BS degree with 12-15 years of relevant experience\nMust be a resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama, AL, area. This is NOT a remote or work-from-home position\nMust be able to obtain and maintain a TOP SECRET clearance.\nGood organizational skills, attention to detail, and a strong technical background.\nSignificant experience in software engineering, including experience designing, developing, integrating, and sustaining complex software systems.\nDemonstrated experience creating and communicating software or system architectures.\nStrong proficiency in C++ and NVIDIA CUDA, with experience with the implementation of high-performance signal processing algorithms using these tools.\nExperience with software design principles, object-oriented design, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, APIs, DevSecOps, and software integration.\nExperience working in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or other iterative product-development environments.\nAbility to evaluate technical tradeoffs involving performance, reliability, security, cost, schedule, and maintainability.\nExperience with source control, automated build systems, code reviews, continuous integration and continuous delivery practices, and issue-tracking tools.\nStrong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.\nAbility to lead technical discussions, influence without direct authority, and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\nMS degree from an ABET-accredited college or university in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field.\nExperience in the development and operation of radar systems, including HWILs\nExperience working on any radar or communications related program or project\nAbility to create design documentation, requirements specifications, and other technical documentation\nExperience utilizing AI tools to augment technical output (i.e. to improve/automate documentation or code generation)\nExperience with cybersecurity engineering principles, secure software-development practices, and threat modeling.\nExperience designing real-time, embedded, high-performance, safety-critical, mission-critical, or distributed systems\nExperience in a regulated, defense, aerospace, intelligence, or other high-assurance domain.\nExperience leading a technical team of at least 8-15 engineers and being responsible for executing a significant software effort within a project.\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 13, 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 $131,300.00 - $237,350.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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