Program Chief Engineer

Leidos • Lynnwood, WA

18h • $131,300 - $237,350

About The Position

The Program Chief Engineer provides direct program support and technical direction for one or more developmental programs in the undersea domain, building and fielding new capabilities for maritime customers. The role leads a cross-functional engineering team across disciplines to deliver undersea systems, while providing technical leadership, overseeing engineering resources and technical authority, and aligning engineering work with contractual requirements and systems engineering practices. The position also serves as a technical liaison between engineering and program management, resolves technical challenges, maintains technical rigor and documentation, and supports business development and capture activities as a Leidos Solution Architect.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Engineering, such as Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Software, or Ocean Engineering.
• 15 or more years of engineering experience in subsea maritime programs or programs involving the design and delivery of electro-mechanical systems.
• 10 or more years in a leadership role guiding engineering teams.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Proven track record leading the design, development, integration, and deployment of subsea maritime systems.
• Hands-on knowledge of embedded systems and related software or firmware tools and techniques.
• Experience with electronics design for unmanned and autonomous systems, including power distribution, battery systems, communications networks, sensors, data collection and storage, signal processing, and industry-standard design tools.
• Experience with mechanical design for hulls, propulsors, and packaging; materials properties and corrosion; modeling and simulation; and engineering processes and software.
• Integration and test experience moving products through concept development, prototyping, initial at-sea testing, and manufacturing or production refinement.
• Strong skills in physical phenomena, including underwater acoustics, power grounding and EMI behaviors, hydrodynamics, RF, optics, thermal dissipation, and reliability.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001:2015 quality standards.
• Experience with DoD program management, contracts, budgets, and subcontractor oversight.
• Hands-on experience transitioning designs into products, from concept development to manufacturing.
• Strong systems engineering expertise, including requirements management, technical documentation development and control, and verification and validation.
• Knowledge of signal processing, embedded systems, power distribution, and control systems for maritime applications.
• Strong organizational and communication skills and habits.
• Proven ability to lead teams through developmental projects from concept to working demonstration models, and to develop, mentor, coach, and build staff technical acumen.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership across projects or programs, leading the technical team across disciplines to deliver undersea systems.
• Lead and mentor the program engineering team and oversee engineering discipline and alignment with systems engineering practices, including architecture, requirements allocation, and design integration.
• Manage engineering technical resources and technical authority to meet contractual requirements.
• Apply systems engineering principles and best practices throughout engineering development, from concept development through life-cycle support.
• Serve as the technical liaison between the engineering team and program management, supporting daily communications and tasking.
• Identify and resolve technical challenges; oversee root cause investigations; ensure complete technical documentation and configuration management; and foster technical rigor and achievement of program requirements.
• Support business development and capture activities, including proposal writing and solution design, as a Leidos Solution Architect.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior