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Who We Are

Lockheed Martin is dedicated to shaping, developing, & advancing technologies & capabilities with a focus on our customers’ needs as part of our 21st Century Security vision. We foster collaborative innovation, provide opportunities for career development, & empower our employees with the skills needed to create cutting-edge products & solutions that keep our users Ahead of Ready.

The role is based out of King of Prussia, PA and reports to our Converged Sensors organization.

What We’re Doing

As part of our 21st Century Security vision, Lockheed Martin is investing in advancing multi-mission sensing capabilities. Our Converged Sensors team is accelerating multi-mission aperture & multi-mission processing technologies through research, development, & demonstrations.

Who You Are

Our team is seeking a staff systems engineer to help design, develop, & deliver software defined Electronic Warfare (EW) mission capabilities. In this role, you will serve as the lead systems engineer and architect on a product team dedicated to developing and demonstrating new Electronic Attack techniques using software defined radios paired with an embedded compute environment.

What You Will Do (The Work)

- Define Electronic Attack (EA) concept of operations (CONOPs)
- Design EW, specifically EA, system architectures
- Perform systems analysis & design from system sizing, requirements definition, & modeling
- Drive implementation of signal and data processing chains
- Develop algorithms extracting spatial and/or temporal signal features
- Perform signal EW modeling in Python and develop a digital twin in Cameo
- Collaborate in a cross-functional team to deploy capabilities into a heterogeneous compute environment
- Execute system integration & test activities to ensure software verification & validation

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent field
- Minimum of 13-15 years of relevant development experience
- Background in Electronic Attack (EA) systems
- Prior Electronic Attack (EA) systems engineering and/or architecture role(s)
- Familiarity with electronic protection (EP) techniques and Radar systems
- Experience working on low technology readiness level (TRL) systems
- Active or ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret security clearance
- Ability to support up to 10% travel

Please note:

This position is based out of King of Prussia, PA.

This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD government security clearance at the Top Secret level.

Why Join Us

- Competitive salary & benefits package
- Opportunities for career advancement & professional development
- Access to cutting-edge technologies & resources
- Collaborative & supportive work environment
- Contribution to meaningful projects with real-world impact

Desired skills

- Master's degree or higher in relevant field
- Experience with embedded software development
- Familiarity with deploying Electronic Warfare (EW) capabilities on FPGAs
- Expertise in digital signal processing & algorithm development
- Prior experience in the defense industry or related field
- Knowledge of Agile & DevSecOps methodologies
- Research and development proposal experience
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills