AI Research Engineer Sr Stf

Standard Job Description. The Lockheed Martin Artificial Intelligence Center (LAIC), AI Certifications & Standards team is seeking a motivated technical leader and innovation champion to accelerate responsible AI and autonomy adoption across Lockheed Martin. The selected candidate will identify, shape, and execute opportunities spanning research and development, technology demonstrations, experimentation, innovation opportunities, wargaming, and customer engagements with military and industry partners.

In this role, you will serve as the strategic liaison and senior technical integrator between the LAIC and Lockheed Martin’s Center for Innovation, known as “The Lighthouse” where you will lead the planning and integration of AI and autonomy into LM’s Lighthouse events and customer engagements, working to solve operational challenges with executable technical concepts and activities. You will work across engineering, operations, and customer organizations to shape and deliver AI-enabled capabilities in areas including defense technology, multidomain integration, experimentation, wargaming, tabletop exercises, modeling & simulation, and decision analysis in real and synthetic environments.

You will identify opportunities and lead cross-functional collaboration within LM and with customers to help engineers and operators jointly develop innovative solutions for complex national defense problems. The role will also help showcase emerging concepts and capabilities while advancing Lockheed Martin’s commitment to responsible innovation and national defense.

• Lead and accelerate responsible AI and autonomy adoption across Lockheed Martin and within the Lighthouse through experimentation, demonstrations, technical integration, and customer engagements.
• Serve as a technical thought leader for integrating AI and autonomy into exercises, wargames, modeling & simulation environments, and other operationally relevant experimentation activities.
• Translate military mission needs and operational problems into AI and autonomy enabled concepts, technical demonstrations, experimentation, and transition opportunities.
• Provide technical direction and integration leadership to multidisciplinary teams of engineers, operators, analysts, and subject matter experts.
• Engage with government, industry, and academia at conferences, workshops, and think tanks to advance military capabilities and maintain awareness of emerging AI technologies, policies, standards, operational needs, and technology trends.
• Identify and lead external engagement opportunities, including leading, reviewing, and contributing to AI standards, best practices, and responsible AI activities.
• Identify, shape, and contribute to AI and autonomy research and development efforts aligned to customer needs, operational priorities, and Lockheed Martin strategic objectives.
• Develop recommendations for senior technical and business leaders regarding AI and autonomy opportunities, risks, experimentation priorities, and capability transition.
• Support other applicable AI projects, activities, and tasks as assigned.

This role is fully onsite in at the LM Lighthouse facility in Suffolk, VA. An active Top Secret clearance is required to start, with eligibility for a TS/SCI. This position may require some travel.

• 10+ years of relevant experience and in-depth knowledge of DoW missions, operational needs, and the relationship between emerging technology, experimentation, acquisition, and warfighter capability transition.
• Experience and understanding of DoW future capabilities, concept development, experimentation, wargaming, and analysis in support of U.S. Government acquisition…