Description
Leidos is seeking a talented Mid-Level Mechanical Engineer to join our Security Enterprise Solutions (SES) business unit in Vista, CA. Our team designs and manufactures highly complex security equipment deployed border crossings, airports, seaports, and other transportion hubs. Our product portfolio includes radiion detectors and spectrometers, X-ray and gamma-ray scanners for cars, trucks, and trains, and CT explosives detection systems for airline passenger baggage.
In this role, you will upde existing designs and introduce innovive products to our extensive line of security detection solutions. The products developed through this effort are truly novel and will make global travel and trade safer, healthier, and more efficient.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design and develop mechanical structures for large and small electromechanical systems and sub-systems
- Identify components, communice with vendors, and provide analytical recommendions for component selection
- Plan and design mechanical structures, environmental enclosures, tools, machines, and other mechanically functioning equipment
- Oversee the installion, operion, maintenance, and repair of equipment, including non-intrusive X-ray inspection systems
- Communice effectively with internal team members across multiple engineering disciplines
- Contribute expertise to the product development team for key component design requirements
- Lead preliminary and critical design reviews for subsystems throughout the product development process
- Collabore with a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers to develop proof-of-concept, prototype, and production-ready systems
- Cree and maintain specificions, ensuring all documents are well-developed, accure, and consistent
- Adhere to established Leidos internal processes and practices
Basic Qualificions:
- Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 4+ years of relevant experience; additional work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
- Hands-on experience defining and implementing formal design documention, including assembly and detail drawings, Bills of Merials (BOMs), and 3D CAD modeling
- Strong presention skills
- Excellent documention and process discipline with close tention to detail
- Proficiency in SolidWorks for part, assembly, and mechanical drawing designs
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook)
- Exceptional analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills
- Solid understanding of Engineering Mechanics (Stics and Dynamics) and He Transfer
- Ability to organize and prioritize tasks based on guidance from the engineering manager
- Ability to pass a TSA and CBP suitability background check
- Willingness to travel internionally, as required (typically up to 10%)
Desired Qualificions:
- Familiarity with the Engineering Change Order process (ECR, ECO, ECN)
- Experience performing Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Knowledge of merials and merial properties associed with outdoor plforms and electronic enclosures
- Strong understanding of metal fabricion processes, including machining, sheet metal fabricion, and welding
- Experience with corrosion protection techniques and merial finishing processes
- Ability to effectively apply Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) per ANSI Y14.5
- Experience with X-ray device shielding and collimion is a plus
Check out the links below to learn more about Security Enterprise Solutions (SES)
https://careers.leidos.com/pages/security-enterprise-solutions
https://www.leidos.com/markets/aviion/security-detection
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the stus 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 step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:
April 13, 2026
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipes th this job requisition will remain open for least 3 days with an anticiped close de of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting de as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compension or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, educion, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market da, 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 innovions. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximely $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more informion, visit www.Leidos.com.
Pay and Benefits
Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. Th's why we craft compension packages th reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compension, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.
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Commitment to Non-Discriminion
All qualified applicants will receive considerion for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, nional origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic informion, pregnancy, family structure, marital stus, ancestry, domestic partner stus, sexual oriention, gender identity or expression, veteran or military stus, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
