Hardware Engineer - Lead​/Architect

Description

Lockheed Martin is a global leader in aerospace, defense, and technology solutions. Our Manassas campus is a thriving center of engineering expertise, fostering a culture that encourages creativity, excellence, and the creation of exceptional products. Our team is made up of dedicated professionals who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

At Lockheed Martin, we’re at the forefront of cutting‑edge technology and innovation. Our campus in Manassas, Virginia is a hub for engineering excellence, where we tackle some of the world’s most challenging engineering problems. We pride ourselves on our culture of creativity, excellence, and product innovation.

We are seeking a Hardware Engineer Lead/Architect to drive the design, development, and production of a high‑density, submarine‑compatible compute platform. The role will own the full lifecycle—from concept through detailed design, prototyping, verification, and production—ensuring power, thermal, reliability, and modularity requirements are met in a constrained naval environment.

Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life

• An excellent working environment equipped with state‑of‑the‑art design tools.
• The opportunity to work alongside industry leaders and top‑notch design professionals.
• A chance to be a part of solving some of the world’s most challenging engineering problems.
• A culture that encourages creativity, excellence, and the development of remarkable products.

Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s competitive and comprehensive benefits package.

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• Education typically aligns with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline with 3+ years of related experience.
• Lead the end‑to‑end hardware development lifecycle (concept, architecture, detailed design, prototyping, verification, production, and transition to sustainment).
• Engineer reliability and fault tolerance: redundant system design, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), health monitoring, alerting, and maintainability plans.
• Architect modular, scalable compute infrastructure: blade servers, GPU clusters, PCIe/NVLink high‑speed interconnects, and edge compute packaging that can be deployed as a “rack as a unit.”
• Drive system modernization/technology refresh processes, evaluating emerging COTS components and overseeing integration into the production line.

• Design to Production:
  Proven ability to shepherd a hardware concept through detailed design, prototype, verification, low‑rate production, and hand‑off to sustainment/manufacturing.
• System modernization / technology refresh process knowledge.
• Compute Architecture:
  Experience with blade servers, GPU clusters, high‑speed interconnects (PCIe, NVLink), and edge compute constraints.
• COTS high density computing component selection.
• Computing enclosures with high power and cooling requirements.
• Emerging Authority – Recognized as a subject matter expert in high density power/thermal design with production experience.
• Motivated Learner – Eager to stay current with emerging technologies and to apply them to novel naval environments.
• Problem Solver – Ability to translate abstract requirements into concrete, space‑constrained, submarine‑qualified solutions.

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

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Expression of Interest: 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 Schedules: 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.…