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For over 60 years, the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) team has supported the Navy’s mission to provide affordable and credible strategic defense. We offer unique career opportunities and challenges on a program with a rich history and exciting future. We help keep this nation and our allies secure. The FBM Program is experiencing significant growth and we need your expertise to deliver amazing new technologies to our customers while maintaining the technical requirements of the strategic deterrence.
Are you willing to join a team to help solve challenges in a team environment using your Software Engineering background and experience? This position needs an experienced, skilled engineer in the areas of flight software design. We are looking for a creative Flight Software Engineer to join an exciting and dynamic team in designing, developing, testing, and troubleshooting complex flight control software for missile systems.
Location: This position does not support teleworking. You will need to live near our Lockheed Martin Space facility and be expected to work a flexible 9x80 schedule in the office full-time.
What does this role look like?
For this role, you will be joining the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Avionics organization committed to developing flight software for the missile system. They will join a team of Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) and software engineers that designs and develops mission critical GNC subsystems for the FBM program. The duties for the position will incorporate all phases of the software development life cycle -- requirements, design, code, test, and maintenance.
Key activities you will accomplish in this role:
As a Software Engineer for the FBM Reentry Avionics Team, you will:
• Develop, Build and Test flight software in C
• Create software requirements and ensure documentation and code output fulfills those requirements
• Review software data from production tests and assist with troubleshooting (Python, MATLAB, C)
• Integrate with project management and systems engineering
• Provide technical leadership in software and computer engineering
Plans, conducts, and coordinates software development activities. Designs, develops, documents, tests, and debugs software that contains logical and mathematical solutions to business/mission problems or questions in computer language for solutions by means of data processing equipment. Applies the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the development life cycle. Applies knowledge of computer hardware and software, subject matter to be programmed in business/mission applications, information processing techniques used, and information gathered from system users to develop software. Corrects program errors, prepares operating instructions, compiles documentation of program development, and analyzes system capabilities to resolve questions of program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls. Ensures software standards are met.
• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college in computer science, software engineering, electrical/computer engineering or similar with at least 5 yrs experience
• Demonstrated experience in systems engineering, software development integration and/or testing
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with the full software development cycle
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, both written and oral
• Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative team environment and to build consensus among peers and effective relationships with team members
• Must have active Secret clearance with the ability and desire to obtain a Top Secret clearance which requires US Citizenship
- Experience with embedded, aerospace and/or spacecraft flight software development and release
- Ability to work within multiple programming languages, operating systems, and development environments
- Experience in processor and microprocessor firmware (non-OS based).
- Experience in processor firmware and software (OS based) - software drivers and firmware wrappers.
- Understanding of missile or satellite software systems.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with management and peers.
- Previous or current Certified Product Engineer (CPE) or equivalent responsible product engineer experience
- Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice
- #LMSpaceSoftwareEng
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $110300.00 - $204900.00
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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: 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, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, electrical/computer engineering, or a similar field
- At least 5 years of professional experience
- Experience in systems engineering, software development integration, and/or software testing
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with the full software development lifecycle
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively and build consensus among peers and team members
- Active Secret security clearance
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance
- Experience with embedded, aerospace, spacecraft, or flight software development and release
- Experience with multiple programming languages, operating systems, and development environments
- Experience with non-operating-system processor and microprocessor firmware
- Experience with operating-system-based processor firmware, software drivers, and firmware wrappers
- Understanding of missile or satellite software systems
- Certified Product Engineer or equivalent responsible product engineer experience
- Proficiency in AI prompting as applied to the position
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