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Summary
Job Description
About Lockheed Martin Space:
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
About the Role:
Come join the growing Theater Strike Weapon System program portfolio, including Conventional Prompt Strike, Hypersonic Weapon Systems, Sea-Launched Cruise Missile, Hypersonic Payload Delivery systems, and other new and dynamic programs. In this role as a GNC engineer, you may be involved in many of the following activities:
Apply missile guidance, navigation, and control expertise to algorithm development, signal and data processing, modeling, and simulation
Integrate Matlab/Simulink models into a 6-DOF C++ simulation
Develop high fidelity models and simulation software
Develop new source code in C++ and Python
Modify code in C++, C, Matlab, Simulink, Fortran, Python, Linux shell, and YAML
Create unit tests
Implement simulation software on a high performance computing cluster including Linux systems or VMs
Work in an Agile DevOps environment with Docker/Container and Kubernetes deployment
Collaborate with the performance critical thinkers, Flight Software team, and customer
Successful applicants generally have a minimum of 2+ years of related experience and may have a post-secondary degree or training in a related discipline.
Basic Qualifications
Skill Requirements:
Broad technical skills such as rigid body dynamics, control theory, and/or computer programming.
Proven experience using MATLAB and/or Simulink for simulation and analysis of feedback control systems, closed loop guidance, or navigation algorithms.
C/C++ programming experience
Demonstrate strong math skills in the areas of linear algebra, matrix math, statistics, trigonometry, and/or coordinate transformation.
Ability to clearly document analysis results in presentation slides and engineering memos
Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.
Security Clearance / Work Authorization:
To meet requirements of the program/customer, this position requires the selected employee to ====.
Applicants must be able to obtain Final Secret clearance to be considered qualified. Final Secret clearance is required to prior to start.
Selected candidates will be required to maintain a minimum level, government issued Secret clearance for long term employment on this program.
Desired skills
Experience with simulations and physics-based modeling
Experience with state estimation and navigation algorithms, including Extended Kalman Filters
Experience with kinematics using Euler Angles and Quaternions
Experience with autopilot design and linear stability analysis
Familiarity or experience with missile defense systems or fire control
Experience with C++ development and Gitlab
Experience with FORTRAN and 6DOF simulations
Experience with model based software development using Simulink (autocoding)
Experience with hardware and hardware subsystems for guidance navigation control
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong interpersonal skills
Demonstrated ability as a team player to build consensus among peers and build effective relationships with team members.
Demonstrated communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical issues to peers, management, subcontractors and customers.
Familiarity with agile software development
Distributed/parallel processing
EEO
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
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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Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They're dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.
As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Other Important Information
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.
Work Schedule Information
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.
National Pay Statement
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California, Massachusetts, and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $101,000 - $178,135. 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.
Premium Pay Statement
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $116,200 - $201,365. 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. -
Job Description
Job Description
About Lockheed Martin Space:
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
About the Role:
Come join the growing Theater Strike Weapon System program portfolio, including Conventional Prompt Strike, Hypersonic Weapon Systems, Sea-Launched Cruise Missile, Hypersonic Payload Delivery systems, and other new and dynamic programs. In this role as a GNC engineer, you may be involved in many of the following activities:
Apply missile guidance, navigation, and control expertise to algorithm development, signal and data processing, modeling, and simulation
Integrate Matlab/Simulink models into a 6-DOF C++ simulation
Develop high fidelity models and simulation software
Develop new source code in C++ and Python
Modify code in C++, C, Matlab, Simulink, Fortran, Python, Linux shell, and YAML
Create unit tests
Implement simulation software on a high performance computing cluster including Linux systems or VMs
Work in an Agile DevOps environment with Docker/Container and Kubernetes deployment
Collaborate with the performance critical thinkers, Flight Software team, and customer
Successful applicants generally have a minimum of 2+ years of related experience and may have a post-secondary degree or training in a related discipline.
Basic Qualifications
Skill Requirements:
Broad technical skills such as rigid body dynamics, control theory, and/or computer programming.
Proven experience using MATLAB and/or Simulink for simulation and analysis of feedback control systems, closed loop guidance, or navigation algorithms.
C/C++ programming experience
Demonstrate strong math skills in the areas of linear algebra, matrix math, statistics, trigonometry, and/or coordinate transformation.
Ability to clearly document analysis results in presentation slides and engineering memos
Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.
Security Clearance / Work Authorization:
To meet requirements of the program/customer, this position requires the selected employee to ====.
Applicants must be able to obtain Final Secret clearance to be considered qualified. Final Secret clearance is required to prior to start.
Selected candidates will be required to maintain a minimum level, government issued Secret clearance for long term employment on this program.
Desired skills
Experience with simulations and physics-based modeling
Experience with state estimation and navigation algorithms, including Extended Kalman Filters
Experience with kinematics using Euler Angles and Quaternions
Experience with autopilot design and linear stability analysis
Familiarity or experience with missile defense systems or fire control
Experience with C++ development and Gitlab
Experience with FORTRAN and 6DOF simulations
Experience with model based software development using Simulink (autocoding)
Experience with hardware and hardware subsystems for guidance navigation control
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong interpersonal skills
Demonstrated ability as a team player to build consensus among peers and build effective relationships with team members.
Demonstrated communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical issues to peers, management, subcontractors and customers.
Familiarity with agile software development
Distributed/parallel processing
EEO
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
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.
*
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They're dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.
As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Other Important Information
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.
Work Schedule Information
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.
National Pay Statement
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California, Massachusetts, and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $101,000 - $178,135. 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.
Premium Pay Statement
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $116,200 - $201,365. 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. -
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