Job Description

Job Description

We are Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin’s products play an important role in the national security of the United States and more than 70 other countries, ensuring peace and stability around the world. Highly trained and specialized personnel and facilities are key to the company’s unrivaled success in the aeronautics industry. Our workforce of more than 25,000 has pre‑eminent expertise in advanced aircraft design and production, modification and support, stealth technology and systems integration.


What You Will Be Doing
This position is for a Mission Assurance Software Engineer Senior-Staff supporting the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and Integrated Fighter Group (IFG) platforms. Opportunities to support other LM Aero platforms may become available as the candidate progresses in this role. The role require expert-level technical mastery, a proven ability to define and steer agile development strategy, and visionary experience in embedded and mission-critical software across multiple programs.

The candidate sets program-wide AT software architecture, defines design and interfaces standards, leads internal and external design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.) and drives adoption of emerging protection technologies and advanced analysis methodologies across the Aeronautics portfolio.

Daily tasks include but are not limited to the following:

- Establish and govern the program-wide unit test and requirements-driven testing strategy; mentor testing leads across multiple sub-systems.

- Define agile governance for the program, coach senior engineers and program managers on best-practice adoption, and present progress to senior leadership.

- Set architectural standards, define source-control policies, and oversee implementation of critical software features across sub-systems.

- Architect enterprise-wide middleware frameworks, define integration contracts, and provide technical guidance to subordinate software teams.

- Establish CI/CD best-practice standards, define pipeline performance metrics, and ensure compliance with security and quality gates for all software streams.

- Define embedded-software strategy, including memory-mapped hardware, bare-metal, real-time operating systems (RTOS), and safety-critical design practices for the entire program.

- Oversee program-wide root-cause investigations, coordinate cross-functional response teams, and produce executive-level after-action reports.

- Collaborate with system engineers, hardware engineers, and test teams to ensure software meets interface, performance, and security requirements.

- Author program-level architecture, standards, and compliance documentation; serve as the authoritative technical reference for internal and external stakeholders.

- The successful candidate will report to the Mission Assurance F-35 & IFG Manager, working under the Mission Assurance Senior Manager, and be expected to work closely with the other members of the Mission Assurance staff to ensure synergy across the Aero portfolio.


What’s In It For You:
From onsite to remote, we offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security, Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.

Further Information About This Opportunity:
Candidate will also have the ability to travel to Lockheed Martin facilities, supplier sites, and customer locations. Must be a US Citizen. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.


This position is in Fort Worth, TX  Discover Fort Worth.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s (or higher) degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Minimum 12+ years of software‑development experience, including program-wide technical leadership of embedded or mission-critical systems.

Secret Clearance with ability to obtain Special Access Program (SAP) Clearance.

Desired skills

Expert-level C/C++ programming background; ability to design reusable libraries and frameworks

Extensive experience with GNU build tools (Make, CMake, etc.)

Hands-on experience with AMD/Xilinx FPGA tools (Vitis, Vivado) and integration of FPGA-based IP

Extensive Linux development experience (user-space and kernel-level), including driver development and performance tuning.

Advanced embedded software experience (memory-mapped hardware; practical FPGA integration; deep knowledge of RTOS and bare-metal development; proven ability to perform rate-monotonic scheduling analysis)

Extensive experience with cryptographic libraries (OpenSSL, WolfSSL, etc.) and implementation of secure-coding best practices in mission-critical software.

Prior ownership of GitLab (or similar) source-control strategy and design/maintenance of enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines is desired.

Experience leading unit test and requirements-driven test development.

Advanced use of Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence (or equivalents).

Familiarity with JSF and/or IFG Mission Systems, Combat Navigation & Identification (CNI), Electronic Warfare (EW), Weapons, and Radar sub-systems.

Reverse Engineering background.

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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At Lockheed Martin, we use our passion for purposeful innovation to help keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work.

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.

If this sounds like a culture you connect with, you’re invited to apply for this role. Or, if you are unsure whether your experience aligns with the requirements of this position, we encourage you to search on Lockheed Martin Jobs, and apply for roles that align with your qualifications.

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.

Ability to work remotely

Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.

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.

Security Clearance Information

This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

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 $134,000 - $236,325. 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 $154,100 - $267,145. 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.