Work with an Exceptional Team: Collaborate with engineers, manufacturing professionals, technicians, program teams, suppliers, and customers to deliver reliable systems.
Build Capability That Lasts: Help improve how we produce, support, upgrade, and sustain maritime systems throughout their operational lifecycle.
What You’ll Do
Provide hands-on mechanical engineering support for the production, integration, testing, and sustainment of complex maritime systems.
Resolve production and field issues through technical investigation, root-cause analysis, and implementation of practical engineering solutions.
Improve product designs for manufacturability, reliability, maintainability, and cost while maintaining system performance and mission requirements.
Develop and maintain mechanical drawings, specifications, bills of material, work instructions, and other technical documentation needed to support production.
Work closely with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, technicians, and suppliers to address material, component, and assembly challenges.
Support configuration changes, obsolescence management, component substitutions, repairs, and upgrades throughout the product lifecycle.
Participate in system integration, test, troubleshooting, and disposition of nonconforming hardware to keep production and delivery on track.
Provide engineering support for fielded systems, helping ensure delivered products remain reliable, supportable, and mission ready.
What You Bring
Required Experience
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Engineering (Systems, Mechanical, Ocean), Physics, or Math
10+ years of experience with subsea maritime systems or other integrated electro-mechanical systems
5+ years of experience with leading integrated teams
Exposure to DoD technical program execution
U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
Preferred Experience
Applicable experience in the industry may be possible in lieu of a degree
Over 10 years leading design, development, and integration of complex subsea maritime systems
Experience with UUVs, deployed subsea systems, and underwater payloads
Experience with manufacturing processes and procedure development
Experience with underwater acoustics
Proven track record in product manufacturing and transitioning designs to production
Familiarity with ISO 9001:2015 and quality-focused engineering processes
Exposure to DoD program execution, including contract, financial, and subcontractor management.
SUBSEAMSS
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Original Posting
November 3, 2026
For 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.
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.
