Senior Principal Electrical Engineer

Job overview

Senior Principal Electrical Engineer in St. Petersburg, FL. This is an onsite, full-time position with a salary range of $131,300.00 - $237,350.00 per year. Leidos Defense Systems Group supports mission-critical defense systems for DoD and national security customers.

What you'll do

• Serve as the technical lead and system architect for complex, mission-critical defense systems, overseeing system hardware, software, and network architecture from concept through fielding.
• Lead technical planning, system design, integration, verification and validation (V&V), and deployment activities across the full system lifecycle.
• Conduct system-level trade studies and evaluate architectural alternatives with consideration of cost, schedule, technical risk, supportability, and long-term sustainment.
• Lead requirements development, decomposition, allocation, and traceability to ensure alignment between system-level objectives and subsystem implementation.
• Perform and oversee requirements analysis, functional analysis, timeline analysis, interface definition, and system integration planning.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight to multi-disciplinary engineering teams, ensuring system-level performance, reliability, and compliance objectives are achieved.
• Guide integration, system testing, and quality assurance efforts to ensure readiness for qualification and field deployment.
• Develop and review technical documentation including system architectures, interface control documents (ICDs), verification plans, test procedures, and technical reports.
• Act as a technical advisor to program management and customers, providing insight into emerging technologies, industry trends, and modernization opportunities.
• Support business development activities by contributing to capture strategies, white papers, RFI responses, technical proposals, and Basis of Estimate (BOE) development.

What we're looking for

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline

Experience

15+ years

Skills & competencies

senior principal electrical engineer

st. petersburg fl

leidos

full time

onsite

engineering

electrical engineering

system architecture

rf

defense systems

dod

national security

About the employer

Leidos is hiring for this role. Industry: Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing (except Contractors). Sector: 31.