Description

Leidos has an immediate opportunity for a Subject Matter Expert in F-15 Mission Planning. You will be part of a highly focused and diverse team of systems engineers, government program managers, software development teams, and security test engineers. In this opportunity you will also serve as a systems engineer providing leadership to peer engineers, testers, and end users with proposed solutions to complex engineering and integration problems. The enterprise utilizes leading edge methodologies for Agile and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Leidos provides a real work-life balance with options for compressed work schedules and flexible hours.

Primary job location is Fort Walton Beach, FL (Eglin AFB area). Applicants in other areas will be considered with the areas of St Louis, MO (Boeing software production area) or Massachusetts and New Hampshire (Hanscom AFB area) preferred. This position does offer the ability to work remote, but the chosen candidate must be comfortable with being on site at one of the above-mentioned locations as needed.

Primary Responsibilities:

• The successful candidate will be energetic, organized, eager to learn and comfortable working & speaking in a team environment, placing a high value on collaboration and team success.
• Serve as a SME for Mission Planning software development.
• Support Agile Product Manager/Systems Engineer/Release Train Manager with a collection of products representing the client stakeholders to the development team to include product vision, design, development, testing and sustainment. 
• Create Technical Requirements Backlogs, Statements of Work, Contract Data Requirements Lists and other documentation in support of new Mission Planning Delivery Orders.
• Coordinate with enterprise stakeholders to prioritize product backlogs for sprints and releases.
• Generate Mission Threads, use cases and requirements packages as applicable and managing those requirements and their traceability.
• Identify and manage internal and external dependencies.
• Analyze software development metrics, report results, and recommend corrective actions.
• Utilize common Mission Planning processes while facilitating a continuous learning culture to help drive improvement of those processes. Understanding and leveraging an Enterprise Product approach to identify requirements that represent a gap in capabilities and opportunities for reuse.
• Report on the technical status of product development to the key stakeholders.
• Evaluate technical proposals and other technical data items, to include architecture, requirements documents, designs, test plans/reports, and process descriptions.
• Represent the Government customer in Product Management (with content authority for the Program Backlog), responsible for identifying Customer needs, prioritizing Features, guiding the work through the Program level processes, and developing the program Vision and Roadmap consistent with the Solution Intent and Context.
• Collaborating to ensure appropriate value is being provided via working software and products (including documentation).
• Attend Product Owner Scrum meetings and participate in Program Increment (PI) planning events. Also, support the Engineering role as an individual or part of a small team that defines a shared technical and architectural vision for the System/Solution under development.
• Participate in determining the system, subsystems, and interfaces, validate technology assumptions and evaluate alternatives while working closely with other Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Solution Trains.

Basic Qualifications:

• US Citizen with at least an active DoD Secret clearance and be eligible to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 6+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Expertise in F-15 or fighter mission planning at the unit level, wing level, or AOC level is required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, and other systems engineers in the development of complex software systems.
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).

Preferred Qualifications:

• US Citizen with an active DoD TS/SCI security clearance.
• Experience with Scrum at Scale or SAFe Agile processes is highly desired.
• Experience with Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence is highly desired.
• Experience with fighter aircraft operations is preferred.
• Knowledge of software testing concepts.
• Knowledge of software and systems engineering processes for the software development life cycle.
• General familiarity of the DoD system development and acquisition processes.
• General familiarity with DoD technical order systems and processes.  

At Leidos, we don’t want someone who "fits the mold"—we want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, “what’s next?” before the dust settles on “what’s now.”

If you’re already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2… good. You’ll fit right in.

Original Posting:

January 7, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

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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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.

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