Job Description
**Description**
This is not a maintenance role. This is a reinvention role.
Leidos is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the design and delivery of AI-enabled software platforms and developer tools that support modernization of mission-critical systems.
This Principal Software Engineer role is responsible for system-level technical leadership and defines architectural direction within their domain, resolves complex cross-cutting technical challenges, and shapes how teams design, build, and operate software. The Principal Engineer is a hands-on technical leader who influences outcomes through technical excellence, architectural clarity, and mentorship, not through formal management authority.
This is a role for builders who bias toward action, who believe disruption can coexist with rigor, and who want to apply cutting-edge AI to the problems that matter most.
**Mission Context**
Our teams moder...
This is not a maintenance role. This is a reinvention role.
Leidos is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the design and delivery of AI-enabled software platforms and developer tools that support modernization of mission-critical systems.
This Principal Software Engineer role is responsible for system-level technical leadership and defines architectural direction within their domain, resolves complex cross-cutting technical challenges, and shapes how teams design, build, and operate software. The Principal Engineer is a hands-on technical leader who influences outcomes through technical excellence, architectural clarity, and mentorship, not through formal management authority.
This is a role for builders who bias toward action, who believe disruption can coexist with rigor, and who want to apply cutting-edge AI to the problems that matter most.
**Mission Context**
Our teams moder...
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