RF Engineer Level IV - Top Secret clearance

Staff RF Engineer – Littleton, CO

Description: 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.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Global Security portfolio of programs by supporting timing, frequency, and ephemeris design on world‑class RF Payloads across various stages in each program’s lifecycle.
• Perform system design and architecture to identify optimal payload solutions for new program captures.
• Engage in system requirements flow‑down to implementation of hardware design, integration and test to verify mission performance.
• Lead troubleshooting anomaly resolution.
• Work closely with other RF Engineers, Box and Sub‑systems CPEs, leaders, and Subject Matter Experts to ensure a given program within Global Securities is successful.
• Partner with customers and program leadership to ensure the success of payload products and milestones.
• Perform box and subsystem design, system signal analysis, requirement verification, trades, risk/opportunities, and support proposal efforts.
• Demonstrate subject matter expertise on payload hardware and mission execution.
• Contribute to payload architecture and trade decisions to enable improved payload and mission performance.
• Responsible for owning and delivering operational hardware.

What you will gain in this role:

• Deep expertise in payload hardware and the mission.
• Expand your engineering and RF hardware proficiency through challenging, real‑world projects.
• Collaborative experience working side‑by‑side with a high‑performing team of engineers.
• High‑impact engagement with the customer on technical discussions and interchanges.
• Accelerate your skills to take on engineering growth opportunities.
• Hands‑on involvement in a cutting‑edge mission area that delivers tangible, real‑world results.
• Contribute to our armed forces’ ability to execute their duties safely and bring our service members home.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience with space electronics and/or hardware design.
• Knowledge of digital timing signals (e.g., 10 MHz, 1 PPS).
• Experience working with subcontracts.

Desired

Skills:

• Proven ability to execute major milestone reviews (e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR).
• Experience leading small technical teams across design lifecycle to produce artifacts to meet technical specifications.
• Experience with successful execution of RF payload/subsystem test plans.
• Team player with demonstrated ability to participate in cross‑functional teams and communicate and coordinate work as one team with common goals.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including a demonstrated ability to interact effectively with customers, suppliers, management, and peers.
• Ability to develop and analyze technical requirements, performing trade studies, and allocating functions down to RF payloads, subsystems and/or components.
• Experience defining end‑to‑end performance and functionality of RF payloads and/or subsystems consistent with mission needs and CONOPS.
• Experience analyzing and verifying technical requirements/functions for engineering systems.
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience reviewing supplier/factory data results to show compliance to RF engineering requirements.
• Proficiency with the development of specifications and interface definitions for digitally processed RF payloads.
• Experience with certifying and selling off an RF payload or subsystem to the customer.

Required Security Clearance: Candidates must be U.S. Citizens with an active Top Secret clearance and TS/SCI eligibility.

Job Details:

• Location:
  
  Littleton, CO
• Type:
  Full‑Time
• Shift: First
• Business Unit:
  Space
• Career Area: RF Engineering
• Experience Level: Experienced Professional
• Relocation Available:
  Possible

Benefits: 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. (Additional Washington state work‑hour allocations apply.)

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