Description

Are you an experienced instructor who has a passion for artificial intelligence and helping others grow their skills and abilities? We're seeking a full-time Sr. Instructor/Project Coordinator with demonstrated expertise in analytic instruction, artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML), and experience leading project integration efforts. As a successful candidate, you will be skilled at applying lesson plans to both formal classroom and informal learning, adapting techniques to meet all student needs, utilizing a range of methods to assess participant learning and training effectiveness, providing positive coaching and feedback to participants, reviewing participant products, and conducting and facilitating meaningful and engaging activities. You will need to be able to evaluate and revise learning activities and content based on input and observations, as well as coordinate and report on participant and training progress. Drawing on your expertise as an analyst and/or manager of analysts, you will be able to demonstrate skills in program coordination, critical thinking, intermediate to advanced level data analysis (quantitative and qualitative), communicating with diverse groups, prioritizing, creating substantive learning content, developing subject matter expertise—your own and in others, mentoring in a way that effectively conveys analytic expertise to students, and incorporating and supporting organizational and curriculum level priorities. Utilizing your AI/ML experience, you will develop instructor-led and web-based training utilizing AI tools and solutions to build and create the content, integrate into the learning, and support the design and development process.

You will be part of a larger program and will assist the team with customer communications, team coordination, and help plan and respond to project requirements. This may include helping to plan training projects, prioritize tasks, coordinate efforts among the team, conduct meetings, facilitate training sessions, and keep stakeholders updated. You'll work closely with developers, designers, and subject matter experts to create products that incorporate sound adult learning principles, meet customer requirements, and are engaging and accessible.

Your experience will help our clients bring creative learning products to life and effectively deliver them to the workforce across multiple domains in support of their critical mission needs.

Best of all, you'll have the chance to instruct across various delivery platforms and impact our customers’ missions in a variety of ways. If you're ready to help learners get to the next level, we want to hear from you!

Apply today and take the first step towards a fulfilling and rewarding career with Leidos.

Primary Responsibilities:

The Sr. Instructor will become familiar, and maintain that familiarity, with a dynamic customer curriculum.

Qualified candidates are skilled at developing subject matter expertise, communicating with diverse groups, creating tailored learning content, providing mentoring which clearly conveys analytic expertise to students, and delivering effective instruction.

The successful candidate will assist the program teams with project integration support, potentially developing new course content, delivering training, facilitating multi-day exercises, mentoring students, and/or providing feedback and improvement suggestions to customer management.

Using their own expertise with analytic product development and in alignment with the curriculum teaching points, the Sr. Instructor may also review student products and provide positive and constructive feedback to the students, they may be asked to role play during exercises, to lead an instructional module, to help coordinate and run an exercise, and/or they may be asked to help build or revise curriculum.

Using their experience with AI/ML, they will be expected to collaborate with data scientists, designers, and developers to successfully build, deploy, and maintain AI tools and automation for both improvements in workflow and for learning interventions.  

They will be expected to work collaboratively with teaching teams, other reviewers, and the overall program team to help meet our customers’ missions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Candidates must have an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph to be considered.
• A bachelor’s degree and at least 12+ years of direct knowledge of and substantial experience with applied analysis techniques.
• At least 10+ years of experience working as an analyst and/or manager of analysts, including direct experience in providing substantive review of and feedback on products and presentations to analysts.
• At least 10+ years of experience with the analytic techniques, tools, methods/procedures, and new approaches to analysis used across multiple sectors.
• Experience supporting analysis at multiple federal agencies. 
• Demonstrated knowledge of, and at least three (3) years of, direct substantial experience in delivering and applying custom curriculum, utilizing instructional techniques, and utilizing student assessment and course evaluation methods for feedback and improvement.
• Experience in teaching, mentoring, and course and training facilitation and delivery.
• Ability to provide constructive feedback on applied skills against established standards and guidelines.
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated experience providing project integration support, including identifying, scheduling, prioritizing, and communicating tasks; coordinating team efforts; identifying and assigning resources to tasks; and keeping stakeholders updated.
• Possess an interest in learning new tools, techniques, and methodologies to enhance and improve training delivery and quality.
• Demonstrated experience developing, utilizing, maintaining, and evaluating AI/ML tools and solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Twenty (20) or more years of experience with analytic techniques, tools, methods/procedures, and new approaches to analysis used across multiple sectors.
• Instructor certification or equivalent (such as CPLP or other certification).
• Experience with strategic planning, gaming/testing, and implementing strategic objectives.
• Master’s Degree or higher.

 

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Original Posting:

January 15, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $105,300.00 - $190,350.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.