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Flight Software Development Lead

📍 Location
Huntsville
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 06, 2026

About the Role

**Description**

The Kinetic Effects Business Area in the Leidos Defense Sector currently has a special job opening for a talented Flight and Mission Software Development Lead to work onsite in our Huntsville, AL office. This is an exciting and unusual opportunity to use your knowledge, skills, experience, and insight to launch the next phase of your career at Leidos by leading a talented software team through the software development life cycle (SDLC) to produce solutions for the nation’s leading advanced defense technologies such as manned aircraft software, tactical strike systems, sensors, computer vision, uncrewed air systems (UAS), counter UAS, mission planning, command/control/communications (C3), platform autonomy, network collaborative autonomy, aerial refueling, and flight management systems.

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 Defe...

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