Senior Reliability Engineer

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The Defense Systems Sector is seeking a talented Senior Reliability Engineer to join a diverse team to create unique solutions for complex problems. 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.

As a Senior Reliability Engineer this candidate may serve as a Lead RAM (Reliability Availability and Maintainability) Engineer on at least one major program simultaneously where they will manage tasking for a team of other more junior reliability this role the candidate will also interface with program leadership customers and line management. The expectation is for the Senior Reliability Engineer to manage RAM Engineering work internally within the Defense Systems Sector (and Leidos as a whole) by fielding requests from project managers support Basis of Estimation (BoE) development for proposed RAM work and shape the companys overall approach to Reliability Engineering via tool selection and training of other reliability team members. The selected candidate will have a significant impact on the development of reliability artifacts such as reliability prediction MTTR analysis reliability block diagrams (RBD) reliability reports statistics FMEA and FTA.

Lastly the Defense Systems Sectors focus is on hiring a candidate with subject matter expertise in reliability prediction analyses but experience with production and sustainment related activities like Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS) is beneficial.

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Leidos Defense Systems Sector 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 worlds toughest security challenges for customers with cant fail missions. To explore and learn more click here!

The Senior RAM Engineer will work in a matrixed organization at Leidos supporting multiple programs at once in a variety of engineering fields with different team environments from the large-scale programs that Leidos is the prime contractor for to smaller-scale programs for which Leidos provides support as a subcontractor to companies in the top 100 DoD contractors. The candidate will join a diverse team of other RAM engineers systems engineers and specialty engineers (e.g. Safety and Human Factors Risk Test) within Leidos and have the opportunity to work on programs from their preferred background as well as challenge themselves by working on programs outside of their expertise.

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Basic Qualifications.

• Candidate must possess a Bachelors degree in Systems Engineering Software Engineering Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or equivalent technical / engineering degree from an ABET-accredited university.
• Candidate must have at least twelve (12) years of experience supporting DoD NASA or commercial programs as a reliability engineer or 10 years with an MS.
• Candidate must have experience conducting RAM analyses spanning the systems lifecycle from predictive analyses to analyzing field-data (e.g. MTTR MTBF FMEA / FMECA RCM reliability block diagram power dissipation and derating).
• Candidate must have experience mentoring other engineers and / or serving as a technical task lead on an engineering project.
• Candidate must have experience in deriving RAM program requirements for complex electrical electro-mechanical mechanical and software systems.
• Position requires candidates to be capable of performing in a collaborative engineering environment working closely with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Candidate must have demonstrated experience effectively communicating within a team environment.
• Candidate must have experience with Reliability Software such as Reliasoft and other reliability analysis tools such as Relyence.
• Experience in performing SW Reliability using tools such as the Neufelder method
• Candidate must have demonstrated experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools such as Windchill.
• Candidate must be a resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama AL area.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications.

Preference shown to candidates who possess a Master of Science in System Engineering from an ABET-accredited university and / or have at least 2-4 years of direct systems engineering experience.

Preferred candidates will also have experience and / or working knowledge with :

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Original Posting : December 5 2025

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 $126100.00 - $227950.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Kubernetes,FMEA,Continuous Improvement,Elasticsearch,Go,Root cause Analysis,Maximo,CMMS,Maintenance,Mechanical Engineering,Manufacturing,Troubleshooting

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 126100 - 227950