Senior RF Engineer

Basic Qualifications

• Knowledge of hardware deliverables (e.g., test, handling, data reviews)
• Experience working with RF test equipment, such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, oscilloscopes, and/or arbitrary waveform generators
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance; US citizenship required

Job Description

Location: Littleton, CO
Work Schedule: 9x80
Position type: Full-time onsite (this is not a hybrid position)

Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security, and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire, and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.

At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.

Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that’s built for you!

Lockheed Martin Space is seeking an experienced RF Engineer to join our team in Littleton, CO!

In this role, you will support the Global Positioning System (GPS) III/IIIF by performing payload integration and testing on world-class RF Payloads. This role will work closely with other leaders and Subject Matter Experts to ensure the GPS III/IIIF program is successful. The selected candidate will also work closely with customers and program leadership to ensure the success of payload products and milestones.

Example assignments include test procedure checkout on development hardware/software, system testing on flight vehicle, characterization testing of complex payload products, calibration, risk/opportunity assessments, and support to proposal efforts.

In this role, you will also contribute to the design and development of high-reliability RF components, subsystems, and payloads for Space and missile platforms. You may perform requirements analysis and decomposition, develop specifications, perform architectural and product trade analyses, execute detailed implementation, validate performance, and certify a deliverable product. You may also support proposals and new business opportunities.

Desired Skills

• Experience developing and analyzing technical requirements, performing trade studies, and/or allocating functions down to subsystems or components
• Ability to support programs from new business to delivery including proposal support, concept development, and post-delivery technical support
• Ability to support program gates such as the Systems Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR), while leading technical development
• A team player with the demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional teams and communicate and coordinate work as one team with common goals
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including a demonstrated ability to interact effectively with management, and peers
• Experience interfacing with customer representatives and higher-level leadership
• Experience with procurement and management of supplier-developed hardware to include collaboration with enterprise subcontract management teams
• Experience with certifying and selling off an RF payload or subsystem to the customer
• Experience in technical management of subcontractors delivering RF hardware
• Experience as Certified Principal Engineer (CPE), Responsible System Engineer (RSE), or industry equivalent
• Familiarity with concepts of GPS and enabling technologies
• Knowledge and experience in adjacent technical disciplines (electrical systems, mechanical engineering, flight sciences)
• Previous experience with government customers and supporting organizations
• Demonstrated technical depth in RF systems, RF electronics, or related engineering discipline
• Experienced with Microsoft Office: Word, Excel and Access (Google equivalents acceptable)