Primary Responsibilities
Review FAA requirement documents, advisory circulars, and applicable regulations (e.g., 14 CFR parts) to extract intent, constraints, interfaces, and acceptance criteria.
Translate operational and regulatory requirements into detailed, testable system requirements, features, and acceptance criteria that support Agile development activities.
Collaborate with Product Owners and development teams to refine backlog items, clarify system behaviors, and ensure technical completeness and traceability.
Engage with customer stakeholders, operators, and subject matter experts to identify use cases with an emphasis on completeness, testability, alignment with operational workflows, and readiness for validation trials.
Decompose high-level regulatory and operational requirements into specific capability statements with measurable performance criteria and traceability to FAA compliance outcomes.
Develop and maintain requirements traceability between stakeholder needs, system requirements, architecture artifacts, implementation tasks, and verification activities.
Support system design discussions by evaluating technical approaches, documenting trade-offs, identifying integration impacts, and assessing operational or regulatory risks.
Prepare and review technical documentation, including system specifications, interface definitions, use cases, operational workflows, verification plans, and requirements traceability matrices.
Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical interchange meetings, structured reviews, and system inspections.
Coordinate with software engineering, test, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps teams to ensure system requirements are fully implemented, validated, and operationally supportable.
Assist in defining verification and validation strategies, including support for demonstrations, integration testing, operational assessments, and customer reviews.
Systematically capture and communicate design decisions, performance trade-offs, compliance rationales, and risk assessments to support program transparency and technical governance.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, systems engineering, or a related field and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with at least 6 years of experience
Experience working within Agile development environments, including familiarity with Agile methodologies, principles, and tools
Experience performing systems engineering activities across the system development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, decomposition, traceability, integration, and verification
Strong understanding of disciplined engineering processes and attention to detail in highly regulated or mission-critical environments
Experience collaborating with cross-functional technical teams, customers, and stakeholders to define and refine system capabilities
Experience preparing and maintaining technical documentation and requirements artifacts
Familiarity with software development concepts, architectures, interfaces, and integration considerations
Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills
Experience with cloud-based systems and modern software architectures
Ability to obtain SF-85 Public Trust suitability determination
US Citizenship
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Java, Python, React, and scripting languages
Knowledge of AI-assisted development workflows and tools (i.e., Claude Code, Codex, etc.)
Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
Knowledge of air traffic control systems, general aviation, and/or flight services
Practical knowledge of FAA/DoD systems, technical policies, standards, and orders
Experience leveraging requirements-management and model-based engineering tools (e.g., Cameo, DOORS, Jama, Jira with traceability plugins, etc.)
Experience supporting verification and validation activities in regulated environments
Familiarity with systems integration, interface management, and operational testing in large-scale distributed systems
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Original Posting
June 24, 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.
