Software Engineer, Embedded Software Engineer, DevOps

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The Skunk Works (Lockheed Martin Advanced Development Programs) is looking for world‑class talent in Software Engineering to be part of a team that continues our 80‑year tradition of advanced aircraft development. The ground vehicle management software team writes software that powers remote‑control, monitoring, and data‑management for unmanned aerial vehicles. We are a highly innovative, fast‑paced team working to develop modular and reusable software to support both our current platforms and the aircraft of the future.

This team is working on new development software where our 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 toward 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 able to use this opportunity to learn from some of our most talented and senior engineers to grow into a subject matter expert 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.

• Experience integrating hardware and software.
• Experience with LUA programming language.
• Experience in scripting languages (e.g., Python).
• Experience with build environments and tools (make and CMake).
• Experience using agile software development tools and methodologies (e.g., Git, Gitlab, JIRA, Jenkins, Confluence).
• Experience with networking protocols (e.g., IP, UDP, RTP).
• Experience working with safety/flight‑critical software development processes (e.g., MIL‑STD‑516C, MIL‑HDBK‑1797, AC‑17‑01, DO‑178).
• Ability to build and maintain relationships and collaborate effectively with others.
• Strong decision‑making and judgment skills.

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.

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

Entry level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Defense and Space Manufacturing