
Reliability Engineer
Huntsville, ALJob$70–126K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Leidos seeks a Reliability Engineer to support defense and other large programs in Huntsville, Alabama. The role performs reliability, maintainability, and systems engineering analyses, develops requirements and system models, and supports design lifecycle activities with program management and design engineers. Experience in other systems engineering areas, including model-based systems engineering, electrical engineering, human factors engineering, and risk management, is preferred.
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Description
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. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable. 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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Leidos Defense provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions.
Leidos Defense is seeking a talented Reliability Engineer to join a diverse team to create unique solutions for complex problems in Huntsville, AL.
The Systems Engineer will work in a matrixed organization at Leidos, supporting a variety of programs on a team consisting of other Systems and Reliability engineers. A candidate with experience in other systems engineering areas such as Model-Based Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Human Factors Engineering, and Risk Management will be treated preferentially.
The Systems Engineer will work with other reliability engineers on large programs associated with the DoD, DARPA, NASA, and commercial applications. The selected candidate will perform RAM analyses such as reliability prediction, Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), reliability block diagrams (RBD), Failure Modes Effect Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), obsolescence, etc. The selected candidate will also perform Systems Engineering duties such as developing requirements specifications derived from customer needs, interfacing with program management and design engineers to support the program’s systems engineering needs throughout its design life cycle, including modeling system behavior, defining the system architecture, dictating system interfaces, performing requirements verification, helping develop test programs, and maintaining configuration management.
Basic Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited university with 3+ years of experience or an MS with 1+ year of experience.
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Educational or Professional experience in deriving requirements for complex electrical, electro-mechanical, mechanical, and software systems.
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Position requires candidates to be capable of performing in a collaborative engineering environment working closely with multi-disciplinary teams.
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Demonstrated resourcefulness by using problem solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills.
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Demonstrated experience effectively communicating within a team environment.
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Resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama, AL area.
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Possess a secret clearance or have the ability to obtain a secret clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience with Reliasoft and/or other reliability analysis tools, such as Relyence.
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Experience conducting reliability-related analyses such as MTTR, MTBF, FMEA, RBD, power dissipation, and derating.
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Experience with LTSpice or other electronic circuit simulator software.
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Educational or Professional experience in working with SysML to develop Model-Based Systems Engineering diagrams.
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Experience working with Cameo Systems Modeler or any variant of that software.
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INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional (SEP) certification (ASEP).
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Understanding of the DoD acquisition processes and methods.
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Experience supporting DoD, NASA, or DARPA program.
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.
Original Posting:
October 14, 2026
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.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $69,550.00 - $125,725.00
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 .
Securing Your Data
Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at [email protected] .
If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/) .
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.
REQNUMBER: R-00194461
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,221 open Reliability Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$70–126K/yr
- US median$121–185K/yr832 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $98K, is 37% below the US median midpoint ($156K) — in the lowest quarter of Reliability Engineer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 21 open Reliability Engineer jobs in Alabama and 1,221 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Alabama
- International Paper3 open
- Lockheed Martin3 open
- Oracle3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Reliability Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 950 postings).
- Education
- 608 of the 1,221 open Reliability Engineer jobs (50%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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