Early-Career Propulsion Engineer

Position

Propulsion Engineer

You will support the engineering team by conducting on-site integration including design, development, manufacturing, test, and integration for flight as well as ground systems. Your duties will include responsibility for subcontractor interface, design, manufacture, procurement and test for propulsion system components and assemblies. The role requires coordinating with customers, suppliers, test facilities, and other related fields such as manufacturing, subcontracts, quality, structure design, analysis, systems engineering, and integration with affected subsystems and facilities.

• Participate in shop floor and production hardware processing on-site at partner facilities. Provide input to address nonconforming hardware, process planning, support production meetings, and work with supply chain to assure that design requirements are met.
• Support subsystem integration.
• Assist on the conceptual development, requirements definition, and design of propulsion components.
• Perform trade studies to select the appropriate design solution.
• Develop product performance specifications, statements of work, and supplier data requirements for components.
• Perform evaluation and dispositioning of MRB items for boost rocket motor components.
• Work on a multi‑disciplined team performing structural design trades, detailed design/analysis activity, and performance and maintenance assessments of operational systems.
• Support dynamic test definitions, requirements development, test monitoring, data reduction, and comparison to analysis efforts.
• Provide user documentation and recommendations to data packages to support peer and customer reviews, present analysis data to engineering teams, customer technical representatives, and Program Office personnel at technical interchange meetings and design review.

• Prior experience with testing hardware and systems.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance.
• Strong understanding of solid rocket motor system design, and/or rocket propulsion.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Engineering, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of solid rocket motor system design, development, manufacture, test, and/or data acquisition and analysis.
• Hands‑on hardware experience.
• Prior integration of complex systems.
• Advanced degree in a technical field.
• Existing DoD security clearance (Secret or Top Secret).

This position requires a government security clearance; you must be a U.S. Citizen for consideration.

• 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: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off and at least 90 hours for holidays; represented full‑time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month, up to 52 hours of sick leave annually, and at least 96 hours for holidays.

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 $57,500 - $101,430. For states not referenced above, the salary range reflects the candidate’s final work location.

9x80 every other Friday off.

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.