Leidos is one of the largest federal contractors overall, spanning defense, intelligence, civil, and health sectors, and it’s a consistent source of remote job postings — one of the strongest we track across the companies on this site.
What Leidos does
Leidos provides a broad range of technology and engineering services to government customers: IT and cybersecurity, systems engineering, data analytics, health technology, and mission-specific technical services across defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil government, and health agency customers. Its scale and breadth mean open positions span far more than just IT — engineering, program management, logistics, and analytical roles all show up regularly.
Why Leidos has consistent remote opportunity
Like other major federal contractors, Leidos operates under standard private-sector employment terms, unaffected by the 2025 federal return-to-office order that reduced remote work for direct federal employees (see our guide on why remote federal jobs became rare). Leidos’s size and the diversity of its contract base mean a substantial number of desk-based, remote-compatible roles are open at any given time.
What roles typically show up
Because Leidos’s work spans so many domains, remote postings vary widely: software and systems engineering, cybersecurity, data science and analytics, program and management analysis (see our dedicated guide), health IT, and various specialized technical and business support roles. This breadth means Leidos is worth checking even if your background isn’t purely technical.
Security clearances
As with other major defense and intelligence contractors, clearance requirements at Leidos vary significantly by specific contract and customer — some civil- and health-sector roles require no clearance, while defense- and intelligence-focused positions often do. Always check the specific posting.
How applying works
Leidos’s hiring process follows normal private-sector conventions: apply through their careers site, expect a timeline of weeks rather than the months typical of direct federal hiring, and submit a standard professional resume rather than the detailed federal-resume format described in our federal resume guide.
Where to look
Browse current Leidos openings on our company page, sourced directly from their public careers listings and refreshed daily. Every listing links to Leidos’s own posting — apply there directly.
Frequently asked questions
Is Leidos only a defense contractor? No — Leidos has a genuinely diversified customer base spanning defense, intelligence, civil government (including agencies like NASA and various federal civilian departments), and health customers. This is actually one of its more distinctive advantages for job seekers: candidates without defense-sector backgrounds have real entry points through its civil and health-sector work.
How large is Leidos, roughly? Leidos is one of the largest federal contractors by revenue and employee count, which in practice means a wide, frequently refreshed set of open positions across many technical and business disciplines at any given time — worth checking regularly rather than as a one-time search.
What’s the difference between applying to Leidos versus a direct federal job with a similar title? The core work can be quite similar, but the employment relationship differs — you’d be a Leidos employee under private-sector terms, not a federal employee under FERS benefits and the GS pay system, and the hiring process is meaningfully faster (see our federal timeline guide for the contrast).