Avionics Test Engineer - Hypersonics

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Leidos' Defense Systems is seeking a talented Avionics Test Engineer for its Hypersonics line of business. With offices across the United States engaging in the defense, space, cyber and commercial fields, Leidos provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific and IT solutions. The selected candidate will support the Thermal Protection System (TPS) of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body program (CHGB). The CHGB is the Army's #1 priority for strategic weapons capability for long-range precision fires and will counter and gain a lead on our adversaries' technological advances in this field, come join us in this exciting, cutting-edge field. This role will provide design support for creating test hardware and integration tools in support of the production of these critical components. Work may also include design support of the Technical Data Package (TDP) critical to the design and production of the system.

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Primary Responsibilities.

• Perform test engineering activities to develop and maintain test systems for the avionics Leidos makes ensuring test systems exist to facilitate test development, verification, and production.
• Implement DevSecOps and test-like-you-fly automated test methodology to ensure testing is flight like to ensure products meet the mission requirements.
• Assist in planning, estimation, and scheduling of test development and execution.
• Participate in program management and engineering review boards.
• Participate in customer and supplier technical interchange discussions.
• Work with system engineering to ensure all requirements are captured from stakeholders (including but not limited to the customer, our flight hardware and software design teams, our manufacturing teams, and our management) and that all test systems are developed to meet those requirements and delivered on schedule with digital engineering in mind ensuring results trace back to requirements and tasks, status, data, measurements, etc. are easily accessible in our cloud tools.

Basic Qualifications.

• A Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical, Computer Science, Mechanical, Engineering or closely related field paired with experience in electronic and/or software design.
• A minimum of 4 years of related product engineering design and/or test system design experience with complex electrical, mechanical, optical systems.
• Familiarity with Digital Engineering, DevSecOps, Test Automation, and CI/CD.
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop test and software-in-the-loop system development.
• Experience with Agile development techniques.
• Working knowledge of statistics (process capability, confidence levels, mean time between failure, etc.)
• Experienced in test development with experience in requirements capture, test system design, build, and checkout, test software development, and validation.
• Understanding of development, qualification, and assembly processes for aerospace product
• Ability to work full-time, on-site at our Huntsville, AL facility.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills to engage technically with electrical, software, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering teams.
• Familiarity with business systems used for tracking parts, bills of materials, and part planning.
• Basic understanding of standard product development processes including review and release.
• Ability to understand electronic schematics and software (C, C++, VHDL, Java, python, SQL)
• Ability to design systems in various CAD tools (like Mentor Graphics, Altium, Visio, DrawIO and Gliffy)
• Electronics design experience from schematic capture, board layout, fab and assembly.
• Ability to understand mechanical drawings and work in various CAD tools (Solid Works, AutoCAD, etc.)
• Strong computer skills with Office products (Word, Excel, Power Point)

Preferred Qualifications.

• Master's degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, mechanical, engineering, or other closely related field paired with experience in electronic and/or software design.
• 5+ years of test engineering experience on aerospace vehicle avionics or integrated systems.
• 5+ years in test system development for medium to high volume production.
• Experience with RF calibration, alignment, and acceptance testing.
• Strong experience with digital engineering techniques (requirements tracking, data capturing, digital tasking/scheduling, CI/CD, and tool connectivity) and tools (such as Cameo, Influx, SQL Server, JIRA, Confluence, git/GitLab).
• Solid digital electronics understanding with embedded system design/test experience.
• Familiarity with multi-threaded software development and test (Windows/Linux PC)
• Strong programming skills (Python, Matlab, C, C++, LabVIEW, TestStand, VHDL)
• Digital electronics design experience (familiar with 8-bit thru 32-bit processor development) and CAD work (Mentor Graphics, Altium)
• Experience with aerospace acceptance test and qualification process.
• Experience with HALT/HASS.
• Experience with Department of Defense, Military, Government, or Commercial aerospace-related programs.

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Original Posting:
February 4, 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 $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

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.