Research Scientist
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Job Location:
Huntsville, AL - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 85150 - 153925
Posted on:
27 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place. This starts with helping our customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. Our dedicated Defense Group employees are solving critical challenges across the globe. At Leidos we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers success. We empower our teams contribute to our communities and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers our people and our community. Our Mission Vision and Values guide the way we do offices across the United States engaging in the defense space cyber and commercial fields Leidos provides responsive cost-effective engineering scientific and IT solutions. Leidos is well known for our people-oriented culture positive work environment technical excellence and resilient business ethics.
Leidos is seeking a talented Research Scientist to work in our Huntsville AL the Leidos Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence branch you will work to solve complex engineering problems with a highly technical multidisciplinary team consisting of aerospace engineers computer scientists research scientists and statisticians. Our team applies engineering and machine learning concepts to solve complex and highly technical problems on a variety of aerospace and defense applications. Accompanying this we develop software applications that enable real-world operators to leverage our engineering solutions
Primary Responsibilities.
In this role you will work to develop solutions to aerospace and defense problems by applying a variety of engineering AI/ML and software technical skills. To succeed in this role engineers are required to leverage internal resources (e.g. software toolkits) collaborate with peers and experienced professionals and learn independently.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Math Computer Science or Related field with 4-6 years of work experience.
- Graduate degree in Engineering Math Computer Science or Related field with 2-4 years of work experience.
- PhD degree in Engineering Math Computer Science or Related field with 0-2 years of work experience.
- Highly proficient with Python and C and modern programming practices.
- Experience unit testing frameworks (e.g. pytest vitest) is strongly desired.
- Fundamental understanding of mathematical concepts including linear algebra matrix math statistics trigonometry and coordinate frames.
- Understanding of machine learning basics supervised learning reinforcement learning and statistics.
- Proficient with source control technologies (Git GitLab)
- Solid technical communication skills and an ability to work in both collaborative team environments and independently
- Must be a resident of North Alabama area or willing to relocate to work on-site at the Huntsville AL office.
Security Clearance Qualifications
- Must be a U.S. Citizen.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
- Eventually you must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters degree is strongly desirable but not required.
- Active security clearance is desirable but not required.
At Leidos we dont want someone who fits the moldwe want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless the over-caffeinated the ones who ask whats next before the dust settles on whats now.
If youre already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2 good. Youll fit right in.
Original Posting:
October 31 2025For 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 $85150.00 - $153925.00The 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.
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Machine Learning
- Python
- AI
- Bioinformatics
- C/C++
- R
- Biochemistry
- Research Experience
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
- Molecular Biology
About Company
Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. Our 47,000 employees collaborate to create smarter technology solutions for customers in these critical markets.
