Software Engineer ; level 4

Who We Are

The Skunk Works (Lockheed Martin Advanced Development Programs) is looking for world‑class talent in Software Engineering to be part of a team that will carry on our 80‑year tradition‑making history in advanced aircraft development. The vehicle management software team writes software for a wide range of aircraft subsystems that make an airplane fly. We are a highly innovative, multi‑site, fast‑paced team developing modular and reusable software to support both our current platforms and the aircraft of the future.

3‑day weekend every weekend! 4‑10 Mon‑Thursday option + Flexible Schedules

This team is working new development software where our team members get to work hands on from the lab to the aircraft in all stages of development, including design, code, integration, and lab and field test. We work on a wide range of technologies and give our team members the opportunity to drive their career towards their area of interest. You will work with a high‑performing and passionate team who are involved within the company as well as outside the organization.

This position offers meaningful and exciting technical work spanning both software development and supporting integration and test for a multi‑site team. You will be joining a very open and inquisitive team filled with diverse perspectives and a common mission. You will be able to use this opportunity to learn from some of our most talented and senior engineers and share your knowledge and expertise to help mentor and grow our junior engineers to support both our current platforms and our platforms of the future.

You will be able to take your passion for software and avionics and your experience as an embedded software engineer and use it to help develop software for a wide range of aircraft systems supporting both rapid prototyping efforts and deliverable software.

• Full software lifecycle development spanning across many avionics services, ground station development and mission system software technologies.
• Supporting ground station development for manned and unmanned systems.
• Development of simulations to support software development.
• Interfacing with key software and systems engineers to define requirements for rapid prototypes.
• Participating in integration and test events.
• Supporting planning and scheduling for key integration and milestone events.
• Technical SME support for avionics subsystems.

This position offers a motivated engineer the opportunity to have a high impact on a productive program as they grow their own skillset.

Travel up to 10% may be required.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Defense and Space Manufacturing

Irving, TX