Job ID: 679647BR Date posted: Nov. 20, 2024
Description:Come join Lockheed Martin Space’s Sensing Systems Analysis Team!

You will leave key imprints on our critical national security products through your efforts in detailing operational concepts and tight coordination with external interfaces. You will guide design trades, track implementation evolution, provide documentation that serves as multi-party agreements; all of which will ensure our space vehicles perform to and exceed their missions and keep us safe.

We are seeking a versatile mid-career engineer who has demonstrated success and passion in taking on design and complex system integration issues in hardware, software, and/or operational space. The ideal candidate enjoys the creative process of choreographing mission profiles filled with precise, tightly coupled and constrained activities. They are curious, goal-oriented, and loves to solve puzzles, both a voracious gatherer of existing jigsaw pieces and a creator of the missing pieces, fearless of being wrong and confident of finding a solution after quick course corrections.

You will be exposed to a variety of technical problems, and we will challenge you to solve them through coupled constraints and conflicting conditions, and instructs you to clearly communicate your findings and defend your recommendations. We will provide you with a supportive team environment, the context of the problem space, and surround you with knowledgeable experienced professionals. Your talented, collaborative, and dedicated teammates will show you how we perform miracles every day to make our products a reality. We are looking to invest in the career of someone like us: a mission-focused, motivated individual with the skills, intelligence, attitude, team-work mindset and perseverance to innovate our product line into the future.

As a Concept of Operations (CONOPS) and Mission Integration Engineer, you will:

• Use best practice Model Based Systems Engineering tools to develop the CONOPS for a complex satellite from a set of evolving constraints and capabilities;

• Engage with counterparts to surface assumptions, arrive at a mutual understanding, and negotiate agreements across interfaces external to the system;

• Articulate the rationales driving the end results clearly enough to serve as authoritative reference;

• Practice judgment and take initiative to solve issues that leave a long wake of consequential impacts;

• Generate resulting reference products effectively and clearly to target different user communities (e.g. designers, test planning, data exchange, operators, etc.);

• Own requirements from mission-level functional performance to, as-applicable, lower-level specifications; Provide verification narrative and evidence.
Basic Qualifications:
• Experience with one or more Systems Engineering functions including:

a) CONOPS and constraints development
b) Requirements, Interface Documentation development
c) System Integration

• Advanced communicator in both verbal and written form

• Excellent social skills, effective consensus builder, demonstrated team-player

• US Citizenship, with ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Poly (CI)
Desired Skills:
• Bachelors or higher in Engineering, Applied Science, Applied Math, related subject area

• Knowledge of spacecraft architecture, subsystems and components

• Experience with complex, large-scale spacecraft development from design through integration, test

• Experience with interface development within a System-of-systems architecture

• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering tools (Cameo, Rhapsody, etc)

• Proficiency in MATLAB or equivalent engineering software for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling

• Strong presentation skills, agile speaker who can effectively brief audiences from different backgrounds and/or with varying technical knowledge

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with investigation in the last 5 years
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: TS/SCI w/Poly
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 9x80 every other Friday off
Pay Rate:
The annual base salary range for this position in California and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, Washington or Washington DC is $100,400 - $192,500. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information 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 and business considerations when extending an offer.

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(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.

This position is incentive plan eligible.
Pay Rate:
The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California and New York is $115,500 - $217,500. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information 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 and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
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With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel, develop, and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. We place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering an inclusive environment built upon integrity and corporate responsibility.

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Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Systems Engineering: System of Systems Integration
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First