# Software Engineer- AI, Autonomy and Platform Development

Software Engineer - AI, Autonomy & Platform Development Overview The Leidos Office of Technology is seeking Software Engineers with AI and autonomy experience to help build a common technology platform. In this role, you will design, build, and operate production software for AI-driven and autonomous systems. You will work in small, accountable build-and-run teams, using modern AI-assisted development practices to ship faster and at higher quality. Your work will support national security and other critical missions where reliability, security, and human oversight matter. Location: The ideal candidate will be based in Northern Virginia or near another Leidos facility, such as Huntsville, AL, or San Diego, CA. Onsite work at a Leidos facility is required as business needs dictate. What You’ll Do Design and build AI agents and reasoning services, including LLM-based agents, planning, and inference, with human oversight, auditability, and fail-safe behavior built in. Develop autonomy software and integrate it with sensors, platforms, and hardware across edge and cloud environments. Design and develop platform software, including APIs and SDKs, data and knowledge services, and user-fac

- **Id**: 4112400
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/leidos-software-engineer-ai-autonomy-and-platform-development>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Reston, United States, Huntsville, United States, San Diego, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T18:32:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6030
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: National Security, C4ISR, Defense Manufacturing, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 7791
- **Name**: Leidos
- **Domain**: leidos.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/leidos>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 326
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.905
- **Repost share**: 0.012
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 107900
- **Max**: 195050
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 195050

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **SBOM** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Checkmarx** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Fortify** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: yes
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **ROS** — Optional: yes
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: yes
- **SonarQube** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T23:35:58Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 50 · green card filings: 24; Filings 12m: 50

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 195050
- **Is top pay**: no

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