Description
Leidos is seeking talented engineers to join our spacecraft and payload development teams in San Diego, CA and Huntsville, AL. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your expertise in successfully deploying complex engineering projects, while contributing to our national defense mission.
We are looking for people who thrive in fast-paced environments and have a passion for developing and delivering high-tech solutions. While being experienced with Space DNA who has worked on LEO, MEO, and GEO is important, and we value and welcome those with experience working for organizations like SDA, RCO, or DARPA, we are most excited about candidates who have demonstrated success in delivering complex, reliable space systems under tight timelines.
As a Scrum Master at Leidos, you will collaborate with a team of software engineers, algorithm engineers, and FPGA/Firmware engineers in addressing emerging challenges in space sensor capabilities. The candidate will primarily work to facilitate the development of sensor-based products, space-based sensor applications to control the sensor’s unique capabilities, and capabilities relevant to sensors in an embedded environment using Agile software development methodologies. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the capability, quality, and reliability of our embedded software and hardware products. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to contribute to Leidos’ mission of delivering cutting-edge solutions for next-generation space capabilities. But unlike the competition, at Leidos you will have the work life balance you deserve. Put your strong leadership and technical expertise to play at Leidos. Join our team in striking the balance of technical rigor with the need for rapid development and market readiness.
If you have a track record of success in delivering complex projects and are eager to make a meaningful impact on national defense, we want to hear from you.
Primary Responsibilities
- Responsible for implementation of Agile and SecDevOps for program software teams.
- Responsible for coaching and reviewing the backlog, program increment, and sprint plans of teams.
- Ability to apply judgement and tact to challenge, recommend, and redirect teams as well as manage expectations.
- Helps the other team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate; with the goal of assisting the team meet their Iteration Objectives.
- Facilitates the team’s progress toward team goals. Continuously engaged in challenging the team to improve performance, quality, predictability, and velocity.
- Leads team efforts in relentless improvement – Helps the team improve and take responsibility for their actions; facilitates the team retrospective. Teaches problem solving techniques and helps the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.
- Facilitates meetings – Facilitates all team meetings, including (where applicable) the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective.
- Supports the Product Owner – The Scrum Master helps the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.
- Eliminates impediments – Many blocking issues will be beyond the team’s authority or may require support from other teams. The Scrum Master actively addresses these issues so that the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the Iteration.
- Protects and communicates – Communicates with management and outside stakeholders; helps protect the team from uncontrolled expansion of work.
- Operates with appreciable latitude in developing methodology and presenting solutions to problems.
- Contributes to deliverables and performance metrics where applicable.
Basic Qualifications
- Must have bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Project Management, Education, other related discipline, with 4 – 8 years of prior relevant experience or master’s with 2 – 6 years of prior relevant experience, or equivalent experience; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Successful management or teaching experience weighs heavily over Agile/Software development experience.
- Experience leading teams in an Agile environment, identifying and converting requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria, and effectively communicating between project teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders
- Experience leading Agile development teams with demonstrated Scrum Master roles
- Scrum Master certification (e.g. CSM, PSM, and SSM)
- Strong communication skills
- Experience working SDA, MDA, AFRL, and Air Force space programs.
- U.S. citizen and must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD SECRET clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with software product development
- SAFe certification(s)
- Expertise in transforming and building end-to-end environments using DevOps to integrate, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and operate multiple systems
- Software development tools: JIRA, Confluence
- Source control tools: GIT
- Able to obtain a top-secret clearance.
At Leidos, we don’t want someone who "fits the mold"—we want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, “what’s next?” before the dust settles on “what’s now.”
If you’re already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2… good. You’ll fit right in.
Original Posting:
October 16, 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 $104,650.00 - $189,175.00
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.
