Aviation Software Engineer Intern

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.

Within the Defense Sector the Airborne Systems Business Area at Leidos currently has and opening for a Junior Aviation Software Engineer intern to work in our Huntsville office in November 2025. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help develop software for tactical strike sensors CUAS and UAS solutions.

This position focuses on the development of robust innovative software frameworks as well as the fielding support and maintenance of software products. Software products range from analysis tools/simulations mission planning software and components of mission-critical systems.

Primary Responsibilities.

• The Junior Software Engineer Intern will be mentored by Senior staff through the software development process.
• Assist in analyzing system requirements developing software and participating in all Sprint activities (Sprint Planning Sprint Retrospectives daily stand-ups etc.).
• Design and develop robust C and Python software under the direction of a senior software engineer.
• Assist with creating and executing unit and integration tests on software components.
• Perform as part of an agile software development team for tasking and progress reporting
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge with the team.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application issues and bugs in a timely manner.
• Other software development duties as assigned.
• Use GitLab software pipeline for performing configuration management and automated testing
• Direct communication with customers end users and team members will be required on a frequent basis.

Basic Qualifications.

• Candidate must be working towards a Bachelors degree in Software Engineering Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Aerospace Engineering Mathematics or equivalent technical degree with at least a 3.25 cumulative GPA.
• Candidate must have experience with software development in either C#/.NET C Java Python or Ruby programming languages.
• Possess an aptitude for the technical skillsrequired for software development configuration management and software quality engineeringconcepts.
• Have strong analytical and process improvement skills along with apersonal drive for details and quality workmanship.
• Demonstrate familiarity with Microsoft Office(Outlook Word Excel and PowerPoint).
• Have good communication skills.
• Must be a US Citizen and have the ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance with Leidos.

Preferred Qualifications.

• Current or prior security clearance
• Accept constructive feedback from more senior software team members.
• Have experience writing unit and integration tests with unit test frameworks.

Were not looking for perfectly polished resumes or perfect fits. Were looking for people who break limits ask hard questions and dont wait to be told whats next. At Leidos were not following the roadmap were redrawing it.

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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.