Senior Software Engineer – Intelligent Platforms & Agents

Position Overview At Leidos , we are advancing mission-critical platforms that simulate, interact with, and act on complex technical and business environments. These platforms enable teams to engage with network operations, automate business processes, and gain insight through intent-driven and agent-based systems. The team operates with a strong belief in “everything as code,” using version-controlled artifacts and automation to manage not only infrastructure and software, but also agent behavior, workflows, documentation, and compliance-related controls. The Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead is a hands-on technical leader responsible for building and evolving platforms that simulate complex systems, automate operations, and enable AI- and agent-driven interaction with technical and business environments. This role combines deep individual contribution with technical leadership. You will actively write code, build agents, and design AI-enabled services while also guiding architecture, mentoring engineers, and ensuring that software, infrastructure, systems engineering, and security are integrated into a cohesive, compliant development lifecycle. Primary Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain distributed systems and microservices (hands-on coding role) Build, integrate, and evolve intelligent agents and AI-enabled services using LLMs and automation frameworks Define and implement patterns for agent orchestration, system interaction, and decision workflows Driv