Leidos

Staff Cyber AI Researcher

Leidos

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: VirginiaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $107,900 - $195,050 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Evaluate emerging agentic patterns (multi-agent coordination, tool use, human-in-the-loop oversight)
  • Implement them as working systems and build reusable automation and integration patterns
  • Create deployment automation for agentic services: reproducible environments and repeatable enterprise releases on Kubernetes
  • Debug and refine AI-driven workflows, ensuring work can be generalized
  • Research and apply nonhuman/workload identity patterns for agentic services and integrate into deployment automation

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years relevant experience (software engineering, applied R&D, platform/DevSecOps, AI/ML engineering, cyber engineering)
  • Proven hands-on delivery: prototypes that ran, tools others used, automation others depended on
  • Strong development skills; experience building LLM-enabled systems and/or multi-agent workflows
  • Practical experience with Kubernetes and modern deployment/IaC practices; Terraform, K8s familiarity
  • Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation
  • Health and Wellness programs
  • Income Protection
  • Paid Leave
  • Retirement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringapplied R&Dplatform DevSecOpsAI engineeringML engineeringcyber engineeringKubernetesTerraformdeployment automationmulti-agent workflows
Soft Skills
strong development skillshands-on deliveryproblem-solvingresearch skillsdebuggingrefinement of workflows
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeSecret clearance