SAN DIEGO, CA Leidos
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Description
The Leidos Innovations Center currently has an opening for a Principal Technical Fellow for Materials Innovation. This is an exciting opportunity to direct the development of disruptive materials that could be integrated into future space and maritime systems -business areas in which Leidos is transforming the payloads solutions for the future.
As a Principal Technical Fellow, you will directly support a rapidly growing sector within the Division by developing new concepts and efforts to design, develop, and demonstrate new advanced materials that could yield disruptive performance improvements to sensor systems and assets, and potentially enable entirely new capabilities.
Your responsibilities would initially be in leading internally- and externally-funded efforts in new materials development and driving materials innovation in existing Leidos business areas. Additional responsibilities will include building materials innovation strategies for new business areas, including ideation, client engagements, securing internal R&D (IRAD) funding to build IP, and proposal preparation and submission for securing new contract R&D (CRAD) efforts. Additional responsibilities will likely include hiring technical talent to working on novel concepts and may include the opportunity to serve as a supervisor.
This position is an on-site role located in San Diego, CA. There may be some opportunity to telework.
Primary Responsibilities
Leading advanced materials research and development efforts to include metamaterials and metasurfaces, nanophotonics, solid-state devices, radar and antenna systems, and structural materials.
Serve as Principal Investigator for materials R&D efforts, leading science and engineering teams from modeling and simulation, fabrication, assembly and characterization to rapidly evaluate, integrate, and deploy material technologies
Leverage expertise in modeling tools to explore and define new concepts for IRAD efforts that would yield discriminating technical solutions for future CRAD opportunities
Build and lead partnerships with internal Leidos teams and external partners to investigate and mature materials, and develop a pipeline to transition them to production and integration
Lead capture strategy for contract R&D for materials innovations, from client engagement, ideation, to proposal development to secure future CRAD opportunities, and successfully transition prototypes to sectors.
Basic Qualifications
Master’s degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering or related technical areas with 15+ years of relevant experience or Doctorate in above mentioned technical areas with 13+ years of relevant experience
Must be a U.S. Citizen
Must be have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
Mission oriented with a strong ability leading inter-disciplinary teams towards goals and deliver solutions that address challenging DoD problems.
8+ years of experience leading materials R&D efforts, serving as Principal Investigator and leading ideation of research goals
10+ years of experience developing strong technical solutions and proposals to meet CRAD solicitation requirements and metrics
13+ years of experience with finite element-based design tools such as COMSOL, CST, or Lumerical
Excellent communication skills and proven ability to work directly with customers and deliver results
Proficient with technical writing, documentation, and organization
Robust sense of initiative, a self-starter who can work independently
Preferred Qualifications
Active Secret security clearance
Experience in building technical efforts in new business areas and increasing revenue
Experience with profit and loss management
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Original Posting:
April 21, 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 $148,850.00 – $269,075.00
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.
REQNUMBER: R-00157892
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.
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