Energy AI Transformation Software Engineer

Leidos, a Fortune 500 company, and leader in the Energy Infrastructure and Automation market, is seeking to hire an Energy Automation Software Engineer to join our team. This a great opportunity for someone with broad skills across software design and development to help lead the design and delivery of next generation AI-enabled energy and power design solutions.  The selected candidate will work with internal customers, leaders, and engineering teams to understand and refine current and future energy design workflows, collaboratively envision future technology-enabled workflows, understand AI and automation technologies to help achieve those changes, and lead the charge to design and deploy software solutions that underpin next generation power engineering services.

The ideal candidate will have exceptional skills in communication, engagement, collaboration, team leadership and be a self-starter requiring minimal supervision and direction.  The responsibilities for this position include all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding, and automated testing within an Agile development model. In this role, you will join a dynamic team that is focused on providing world class solutions to our customers in an exciting, collaborative, and inclusive atmosphere. You will be challenged and provided with a tremendous opportunity for growth in a fast-paced, fun environment. Experience with utility power systems (Transmission, Substation, Distribution, Planning) and fundamental AI technologies are beneficial skills to enable an understanding of the work we do, and how users will ultimately employ our software solutions.

Location: This position allows for Telework but requires candidate to be located in the US.

Primary Responsibilities

• Understand industry hang-ups and develop innovative solutions leveraging AI, software, and process automation.
• Proactively identify design flaws and work with the team to come up with thoughtful solutions.
• Take high level architecture design and translate into low level software design. Work with the Software Architect and team to enhance, modify and incorporate changes as required.
• Help build, manage and mentor multi-disciplined teams executing Agile processes using best-of-breed tools.
• Cultivate a culture of innovation and promote collaboration across teams and projects.
• Adapt and develop software to common product vision defined by Solution Architect.
• Prototype, develop, test, deploy, maintain and continuously improve our software deliverables.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with four plus (4+) years of software engineering experience.
• This position requires U.S Citizenship.
• Experience developing and delivering complex software systems into production.
• Hands-on expertise with object-oriented programming (Java, C++, C#) and databases (SQL and NoSQL).
• Strong proficiency with web technologies including HTML, CSS, REST, JSON, JavaScript and React.
• Strong proficiency in Python scripting.
• Demonstrated proficiency with deployment environments and infrastructure as code (IaC), including Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, Terraform, Helm charts, and Ansible.
• Strong understanding of modern software design patterns and coding standards.
• Experience leading multi-disciplined technical project teams and setting the technical direction.
• Working knowledge of Agile development and continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools.
• Experience with a version control system (e.g., Git).
• Experience with an issue/problem tracking system (e.g., Jira).
• Proficiency with multiple operating systems (Windows, Linux, etc.).
• Proficiency with Cloud environments including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Oracle leveraging technologies such as EC2, Serverless (e.g. Lambda), Batch, Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and Bedrock.
• Interest and ability to learn new programming languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques. Ability to evaluate technologies and make recommendations to the software development team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Direct experience with electric power domains (low/medium/high-voltage power system design)
• Formal AI training courses or degree

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.

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.