Senior Electrical Engineering SupervisorLeidos
Description
Lead the Future of Maritime Innovation
The Maritime System Solutions (MSS) Portfolio within the Leidos Undersea Maritime Systems Division is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to supervise a talented team of electrical engineers in designing and delivering next-generation maritime solutions as part of a larger, cross-functional organization. Your team will work within a team structure to develop, build, test, and deliver a variety of technical solutions, ranging from unmanned underwater vehicles to advanced sensor systems. Your leadership, mentoring, and technical know-how will help shape capabilities that protect and advance U.S. interests around the globe.
Why Join Us
- Work with and develop cutting-edge subsea technologies that few engineers get to experience firsthand.
- Collaborate with world-class scientists, engineers, and innovators across the U.S.
- Lead programs that support a wide variety of high-profile customers.
- Be part of a culture that values innovation, technical excellence, and mission impact.
Key Aspects of the Position
- Serve as subject matter expert in electrical and electronic system design, test, analysis, and engineering.
- Coach, mentor, and develop less experienced subordinate electrical engineers into capable, high-performing team members.
- Oversee aspects of design, analysis, and documentation of electrical power and electronic components and systems.
- Perform and oversee development of prototypes and products through design, build, test, and installation.
- Integrate design and process improvements to new and existing systems.
- Serve as a Technical Lead for a variety of Maritime Programs.
- Present design solutions to program leadership and external customers.
What You Will Do
- Analyze, simulate, design, construct and test electronics for digital and analog circuitry in systems requiring custom signal processing, amplification, control, power management and conversion.
- Evaluate, select, specify, design, modify, test, and/or integrate sensors, cables, connectors, power subsystems (including batteries).
- Generate and maintain engineering drawings in support of manufacturing, review and create engineering change orders (ECOs), as required per ISO9001:2015 policies.
- Develop project test plans and test procedures, provide test planning support, and assist in the execution of both lab testing and at-sea testing.
- Conduct experimental tests on equipment, evaluate results, and develop specifications for deliverable systems.
- Contributes to customer development, test and production activities.
- Supports and oversee development of new and updating of existing system design standards to meet specific current and future requirements.
- Effectively document engineering development throughout product development lifecycle
- Manage, mentor, and grow electrical engineers as direct reports to include hiring, firing, promotions, raises, retention, and performance feedback.
What We’re Looking For
Required Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or similar field with 10+ years of related experience in electrical/electronic hardware design, integration and system level test and commensurate with primary responsibilities. Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or similar field with 8+ years of related experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
- Demonstrated experience with Altium Designer or similar circuit design tools.
- Experience in Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) design including analog, digital, mixed signal, or high voltage designs (> 1kV).
- Working knowledge of MATLAB, VISIO, and LTSpice software packages.
- Experienced in the operation of electronic test equipment including oscilloscopes, multi-meters, power supplies, function generators, insulation resistance testers, etc.
- Ability to plan, prioritize and organize work without close supervision.
- Competent in the use of Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Microsoft Project.
- Experience with designing, modeling, trouble shooting, and verifying stability of digital power control loops.
Preferred Experience:
- Active Secret Clearance or above.
- Experience in supervising technical staff and leading technical teams to successful outcomes.
- Experience with unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and associated electronics/sensors, underwater cables/connectors, control and monitor electronics, power systems, launch and recovery subsystems, and system-to-host interfaces, including acoustic ranging and communications.
- Experience with optics, optical telemetry and electro-optic components.
- Demonstrated knowledge with conversion topologies including Flyback, Buck, PFC, resonant converters, LLC and analog/digital controls loops.
- Experience with coding and debugging in C/C++, firmware development in VHDL/Verilog, familiarity with the Xilinx toolchain, or Python Scripting.
- Development of test software and scripts on Linux/Windows environments.
SUBSEAMSS
If 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.
Original Posting:
January 26, 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.
