Consulting Employee

Leidos • Lynnwood, WA

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About The Position

The Undersea Systems Division at Leidos currently has an opening for a Senior Optical Systems Engineer. Candidate will immediately contribute to a funded Government-Industry-Lab team to establish the feasibility of an optical laser communication system in a specific configuration for communication through the air-water-interface employing underwater and airborne hosts.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen with ability to obtain SECRET security clearance.
• Experience with the Leidos Pulse Propagation Model (PPM) design, legacy MATLAB codebase, and operation
• Extensive experience with optical (blue-green) transmitters and receivers, experience developing integrated transceiver payloads, and experience integrating and testing such payloads with host platforms
• Ability to read, understand, and interpret complex technical documents.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas orally and visually.

Nice To Haves

• 40+ years of experience in development and application of technologies, design, development, integration, test, and production of systems. Ideally the experience will reflect a career with increasing levels of technology and system complexity, and increasing leadership responsibility and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Direct the architecture, development, and sustainment of mission-critical sensor recording systems across up to several concurrent projects
• Collaborate with team to identify embedded firmware and software requirements and evaluate candidate design approaches for solving wide-ranging technical problems.
• Review the current state of the recording system codebase, including any changes made since my departure, to assess what needs attention and prioritize next steps.
• Identify and resolve any existing code quality issues to establish a stable baseline for ongoing development.
• Begin setting up the recording system build in a CI pipeline to enable automated builds and reduce manual integration risk.
• Begin active development on the recording system, picking up priority tasks based on current project needs.
• Provide technical guidance to the development team on the recording system architecture and best practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed