Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lead

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Description

The Leidos Mission Solutions Business Area Office of Technology (OOT) under the INTEL SECTOR has an opening for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lead.

Position Summary
The Mission Solutions Business Area (BA) AI Lead will serve as the lead AI stregist and practitioner across the Business Area, responsible for defining, aligning, and accelering Artificial Intelligence stregy and execution across the Business Areas. This leader will drive mission-relevant, secure, and operionally deployable AI solutions th modernize intelligence tradecraft, accelere mission software delivery, and deliver differentied cyber and multi-INT capabilities speed and scale.

The MSBA AI Lead will collabore with the BA Chief Technology Officer (CTO), BA solution architects, line managers and growth leaders to drive AI enabled solutions into program and mission operions, captures, proposals, and non-traditional acquisitions. The MSBA AI Lead will proactively establish relionships and meet with current and potential customers to demonstre the company's credentials for solving problems with technically differentied AI and advanced automion solutions.  The MSBA AI Lead will partner with the broader Leidos Enterprise, AI research teams, and external partners to stay informed on and evangelize Leidos and industry’s AI capabilities, tailored to Mission Solutions Business Area audiences.  

As a key member of the CTO team, you will play a central role in shaping how AI is applied across mission systems—turning emerging technologies into actionable solutions th drive innovion, inform stregy, and differentie Leidos in the market.

The position will report to the CTO for the Mission Solutions Business Area. 

Primary Responsibilities
•Work with BA CTO to define and execute the Mission Solutions Business Area AI Stregy aligned to Business Area growth priorities, customer mission needs, and SECTOR and Corpore AI direction.
•Accelere adoption of Agentic AI, Generive AI, AI-assisted software development, AI-enabled cyber operions, and multi-INT fusion plforms.
•Ensure AI capabilities are mission-aligned across Intelligence Production & Analyst Workflows, TCPED modernizion, mission software automion, cyber operions, and Informion Operions plforms.
•Partner with Solution Architects, Chief Architects, and Growth leaders to shape AI-infused solutions into captures and proposals.
•Demonstre ready-now AI plforms ahead of RFP release and support OTAs, CSOs, and outcome-based acquisition models.
•Establish and maintain an AI Governance Framework ensuring secure and trusted AI deployment in classified and mission-critical environments.
•Ensure Responsible AI practices, model evaluion standards, lifecycle risk management, and Zero Trust alignment.
•Build and lead a community of AI practitioners across the Business Area, ensuring:
•Every senior technical leader is conversant and proficient in AI-enabled mission solutions
•Shared AI reference architectures, reusable components, and model libraries
•Reuse of IP across programs 
•Transition AI prototypes (IRAD/CRAD) into operional programs speed.
•Lead technical demonstrions and prototypes to counter disruptors and position Leidos as a mission-ready AI integror.
•Actively support priority captures and recompetes by:
•Writing and reviewing AI-enabled solutions
•Coaching solution architects on the design and implemention of AI into bids and white papers
•Engaging directly with IC and DoD customers to shape AI requirements

Primary Focus Areas
•Applied AI / Machine Learning Systems and Intelligence Automion
•Intelligence and Da Analytics
•Cybersecurity and Secure AI
•Integrion of AI into mission and enterprise architectures
•Systems and Enterprise Engineering
•Cloud and Digital Modernizion

Basic Qualificions
•Master’s degree or Ph.D. and 15+ years of experience in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Engineering, Applied Mhemics, or reled field (or equivalent experience).Additional years experience may be used in lieu of a degree.
•Minimum 15+ years of experience in AI/ML, advanced analytics, or mission software engineering.
•Demonstred experience operionalizing AI in classified or mission-critical environments.
•Experience with Nural Language Processing (NLP), multi-agent systems, and sentiment analysis.
•Experience leading research and development reled to the applicion of AI and automion into cyber operions (offensive, defensive, or informion-operions)
•Experience deploying Generive AI / LLMs, Knowledge Graphs or other technologies to improve analytic activities
•Experience leading AI solutioning in capture and proposal efforts.
•Proven experience working with distributed, highly technical teams.
•US Citizen with Active TS/SCI with CI Poly.

Preferred Qualificions
•Well-developed stregic mindset with ability to communice and inspire others.
•Knowledge of DoD, Federal, and Intelligence Community customers.
•5+ years supporting U.S. Intelligence Community or DoD/DoW customers.
•Experience modernizing TCPED workflows using AI.
•Strong executive communicion skills and ability to engage senior IC leadership.

Why Leidos
At Leidos, you’ll collabore with forward-thinking experts across disciplines, apply emerging technologies to real mission challenges, and grow into a role th shapes the future of nional security technology. 
If you are a creive, systems-level thinker who thrives the intersection of technology, innovion, and nional security—this is your opportunity to make an impact. 
Join us and define how AI moves from concept to mission impact.

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.

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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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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.

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