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Are you ready for your next career challenge?Leidos Defense provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world's toughest security challenges for customers with "can't fail" missions.
Leidos Defense is seeking an
Electrical Design Engineer join our Huntsville team!
Primary Responsibilities- Solve complex electrical problems using off-the-shelf parts as well as the ability to develop custom solutions.
- Create solutions using techniques spanning a variety of engineering disciplines including power distribution, RF design, logic/controls, and custom analog and digital circuit design.
- Use test equipment such as VNAs, spectrum analyzers, multimeters, network analyzers, and lab power supplies/loads.
- Create detailed block diagrams to define top level systems as well as lower level sub assemblies.
- Document and release designs using KiCAD, SolidWorks Electrical, Visio, or similar.
- Work collaboratively with project team(s) to formulate innovative solutions to complex problems and products across a broad range of applications.
Basic Qualifications- Candidate must have a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a STEM discipline from an ABET accredited school with 4+ years of direct applicable experience or MS degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
- Position requires demonstrated expertise in design work using a CAD package similar to SolidWorks and SolidWorks Electrical.
- Strong understanding of electrical system level design.
- Ability to design for rapid prototyping and fabrication in a dynamic environment.
- Candidate must be a resident of or be willing to relocate to the Huntsville, AL area.
Preferred Qualifications- Strong understanding of basic mechanical concepts.
- Strong understanding of electrical concepts.
- Electrical system design experience - power, data, and RF.
- Experience with electrical schematics and cable diagrams.
- Familiar with 3 phase and split phase power systems.
- Familiar with DC power systems.
- Knowledge of fiber optics communication systems.
- Experience with KiCAD, Mentor Graphics DxDesigner, Altium, OrCAD, or similar.
- Familiar with 2D and 3D CAD software such as SolidWorks, SolidWorks Electrical, AutoCAD and Visio.
- Organizational skills to document designs, assist with Technical Data Packages (TDP) and support production and test.
- Active SECRET security clearance or higher.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:June 22, 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.
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