Systems Engineer (UX/HMI)

Description

The Transportation Solution Division within the Leidos Civil group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer who will be a member of a dynamic team working Future Flight Services Program (FFSP), providing briefing and flight planning for the nation's general aviation community.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end design of the human machine interface (HMI) ensuring optimal user experience (UX) and interaction flow adhering to product branding guidelines, technical specifications, and regulatory compliance.
• Develop wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas and interaction behaviors.
• Document interaction specifications, including visual design, navigation paths, and control logic.
• Create and maintain user journey maps, personas, and use-case scenarios to drive user-centric design decisions.
• Define and enforce HMI/UX design standards and guidelines across product lines to ensure consistency and quality.
• Collaborate with customer and technical product owners to translate business requirements into compelling user experiences.
• Define, track, and analyze key HMI/UX performance metrics to translate into design recommendation to improve user efficiency, safety, and engagement.
• Review the FAA requirement documents, advisory circulars, and applicable regulations (e.g., 14 CFR parts) to extract intent, constraints, and acceptance criteria.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in human-computer interaction (HCI), UX Design, Cognitive Science, or similar related field and at least 4 years of relevant experience designing and deploying HMIs for large-scale web applications
• Experience and familiarity with agile methodology and principles
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools and common HMI development frameworks or platforms
• Familiarity of human factors engineering in a regulated safety-critical environment
• Strong understanding of rigid engineering processes, including attention to detail
• Clear and effective verbal and written communication
• Experience in engaging customers to understand needs, deliver solutions, manage expectations, and maintain an ongoing relationship
• Ability to obtain SF-85 Public Trust Clearance Level
• US Citizenship

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with front-end development technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) and/or analytics platforms (e.g., Google Analytics)
• Knowledge of air traffic control systems, general aviation, and/or flight services.
• Practical knowledge of FAA/DoD systems, technical policies, standards and orders.

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For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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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