Job Overview
Job description
- Salary:
- USD 131,300 - 237,350 per year
- Location:
- Laurel, MD
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
Description
About Leidos
Leidos is a FORTUNE 500® company bringing a mix of innovative technology and sector expertise to customers in the national security, engineering, and health industries. We deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers' success.
The Leidos Intel Sector combines technology-enabled services and mission capabilities to support Intelligence Community customers as they address evolving national security challenges.
Leidos is seeking a highly experienced Senior Signals Analyst to perform advanced technical analysis of signals in recorded and live environments. You will operate signal collection, processing, and analysis equipment; diagnose signal and payload characteristics; and communicate technical findings through published reports and briefings.
You will collaborate with analysts throughout the Intelligence Community, support collection missions, and apply extensive technical-analysis experience to complex signal-analysis challenges.
Why This Role Matters
Advanced signals analysis requires the ability to identify and characterize complex signal structures and translate detailed technical findings into useful analytic products.
As a Senior Signals Analyst, you will apply deep technical expertise to payloads, interleavers, coding and modulation characteristics, and randomization techniques while helping communicate and transfer that expertise through technical reporting and training materials.
Responsibilities
Advanced Signals & Payload Analysis
- Operate signal collection, processing, and analysis equipment.
- Analyze signals from recordings and in live environments.
- Diagnose and process payloads.
- Diagnose interleavers.
- Diagnose characteristics of LDPC, Reed-Solomon, and code modulation schemes.
- Diagnose randomization techniques.
Technical Reporting, Training & Collaboration
- Write and publish technical signals analysis reports.
- Prepare complex technical reports documenting analysis results.
- Present technical briefings on analysis findings in accordance with Government direction and customer requirements.
- Develop training material based on technical signals-analysis expertise.
- Collaborate with analysts throughout the Intelligence Community and maintain awareness of related analysis efforts involving supported signals.
Requirements
Clearance
- TS/SCI with Polygraph, at time of Application, to be considered for the position.
- BS degree.
- Minimum of fifteen (15) years of experience interacting with customers, deploying on collection missions, performing technical analysis, and preparing technical analytic reports.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
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.
About Leidos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
Pay and Benefits
Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.
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Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
About the Company
Looking for an opportunity to make an impact?
At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers' success. 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 business.
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In this role, you can also expect to gain experience in the following:
- Role:
- Senior Signals Analyst
- Job Type:
- Senior Level | Software Engineering
Company profile
Leidos
leidos.comLeidos is a technology and science company that delivers solutions at the intersection of national security, health and critical infrastructure for government and commercial customers. Its work spans defense tech, AI, cyber, digital, space, health and energy, including advanced space, aerial, maritime and ground platforms for U.S. and allied forces. The company is organized around five growth engines under its NorthStar 2030 strategy and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
- Company Size
- 10,000 - 50,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Reston, Virginia, United States
- Founded
- 1969
- Founders
- John Robert Beyster
- Funding Stage
- Public
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