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Business Development Intern

CompanyLeidos
LocationReston
Work ModeOn Site
PostedDecember 15, 2025
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
The Business Development team is responsible for growing and contributing to growth at the Corporate level. Interns will be exposed to various challenging work environments and paired with BD leaders for mentoring.
Internship Type
full time
Salary Range
$41,600 - $75,200
Company Size
35878
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 48,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®. Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos. Your most important work is ahead, visit careers.leidos.com for our latest opportunities.
About the Role

Business Development is looking for interns who have an interest in a career in Business Development. The program is designed to prepare high potential interns for future positions in Leidos BD by exposing them to a variety of challenging work environments, and pairing them with BD leaders who will provide mentoring throughout their internship.

Primary Responsibilities

The Business Development team is a dynamic group of professionals responsible for growing and contributing to growth at the Corporate level. Our teams are fast-paced, strategic and highly motivated to win and capture new business. Successful candidates typically have a high-energy level, strong enthusiasm, passion for innovative thinking, a competitive edge, and strong communication skills.

We offer intern assignments in the following BD functional areas:
- Capture Strategy and Support
- Business Operations
- Market Planning & Support
- Proposal Operations
- Capture Excellence

Basic Qualifications

-Actively pursuing a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and for college students who have completed 2 years toward their degree—who have demonstrated a record of high performance, and a willingness to learn.  Minimum 3.0 GPA.
- Academic excellence
- Demonstrated leadership abilities and skills
- Energy, enthusiasm and competitive edge
- Flexibility
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to continually learn and grow
- Ability to work in a team
- Ability to work under pressure
- Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge and experience in the US Government's procurement process
- Major in Business, Marketing or related discipline
- Knowledge of Government Contractor’s proposal process and development

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:

December 15, 2025

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 $41,600.00 - $75,200.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.

Key Skills
Business DevelopmentCommunication SkillsLeadership AbilitiesTeamworkFlexibilityEnthusiasmCompetitive EdgeInnovative Thinking
Categories
Management & LeadershipSalesMarketingGovernment & Public Sector
Benefits
Health And Wellness ProgramsIncome ProtectionPaid LeaveRetirement