Staff Systems Engineer - International Travel Required

About the Role

At Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, we're driving innovation and upholding the highest standards of business ethics. As a Systems Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in preparing plans, implementing, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for the integration and testing of in-house developed and COTS/GOTS components, elements, subsystems, and/or systems. This position requires international travel 2-4 times per year to support customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize customer contractual needs and requirements into system test solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Establish functional and technical specifications and standards, solve hardware/software interface problems, define input/output parameters, and ensure integration of the entire system or subsystem.
• Review, evaluate, and derive requirements for testability; develop and direct preparation and execution of comprehensive test plans, procedures, and schedules for complete systems and/or subsystems.
• Coordinate subsystem and/or system testing activities with programs and other organizations.
• Perform analysis of test results and prepare comprehensive subsystem and/or system-level evaluation reports to verify and validate system performance.
• Write discrepancy reports and perform integration regression testing to verify/validate incorporated fixes to software, components, subsystems, and systems.
• Provide technical leadership by analyzing current LM and end-user requirements, concept of operations, and system architecture to develop and lead tasking from the perspective of scope, schedule, and resource allocation.
• Serve as the Integration and Test Lead, collaborating on project vision and roadmaps with Senior Managers and Chief Engineers.

Requirements

• Active US Security Clearance with a Polygraph.
• Valid US Passport.
• Experience with network configurations/operations, integrating and troubleshooting systems, and updating both test and operational systems (Windows/LINUX/UNIX/RHEL, servers, modems, switches, GOTS/COTS software).
• Systems troubleshooting experience, including hardware, software, Linux, analysis capabilities, communications, Python, or Bash.
• SOP development experience.
• Requirements gathering, design, documentation, and planning experience, including test methodologies and test plan development.
• Experience developing system cybersecurity requirements, functional requirements, and allocation to hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.
• Experience creating System Engineering Plans, Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface Control Documents.
• Ability to author detailed test plans, procedures, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Experience conducting quantitative analysis in areas like Reliability, Maintainability, Vulnerability, Survivability, and Producibility.
• Experience in interface definition, design, and configuration changes throughout the lifecycle.
• Leadership experience in multiple development tasks and customer engagement.
• Understanding of real-time process budgets and error budgets allocation to systems and subsystems.
• Knowledge of stakeholder needs and system operations effectiveness.
• Experience establishing and gaining approval for system or component definitions, including requirements, designs, interfaces, and test procedures.
• Ability to define methods, processes, and evaluation criteria for verifying systems and work products against requirements.
• Willingness to travel internationally 2-4 times per year.

Qualifications

• Technical certifications (e.g., CISSP, CEH, CASP, Security+) are highly desired.
• Familiarity with Elastic Search, Data Flow, Docker, and Kubernetes is highly desired.
• Ability to quickly learn new hardware and software systems.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing operational requirements and cost-constrained environments.
• Strong written, communication, and presentation skills.
• Self-starter with excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Technical, hands-on cybersecurity systems engineering experience and Systems Administrator skills for a DevOps-type position are highly desired.

Pay

Full-Time Salary Range: $135,700.00 - $251,900.00

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10)
• 401(k) match
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• Parental Leave
• EAP
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Education Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability
• Long-Term Disability

Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered, depending on the position. For Washington state applicants only: Non-represented full-time employees accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO); represented full-time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month and up to 52 hours of sick leave annually. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on the start date during the calendar year.