Job ID: 710395BR Date posted: Nov. 25, 2025
Description:The mission matters. So do the people behind it. With advancing defense technology at our core, what sets us apart is a culture of collaboration, purpose, and impact.

What is the mission?

By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility.

What does this role look like?

Lockheed Martin Space Programs is actively looking for candidates who test engineering experience with an unrelenting commitment to drive continuous improvement in producibility & testability. This person will be collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, production, finance, quality, etc.) to evaluate design trade-offs, support producibility, drive commonality, and manage requirements flow down efficiently while aligning with Lockheed Martin Space programs overall procurement strategy, helping to reduce lead-time, and promote business objectives of resiliency, cost, cash, and growth.
As a Design for Test Engineer, you will be the voice of Production Test in early engagement with Design Engineering & Program Management. You will partner with early lifecycle product design and development teams with responsibility for assessing designs for testability. The Design for Test engineer will be involved from initial concept and focus on steering designs towards lowest lead-time solutions & commonality/standardization across the enterprise. You will engage on a regular basis with a broad set of stakeholders including leadership during early program phases. You will work closely with both Support Equipment & Flight Hardware teams to drive collaboration, concurrency, & optimal solutions for the entire systems lifecycle. You will leverage experience from the DFX team to create new testability criteria and recommendations. Strong interpersonal skills, innovation, and willingness to respectfully challenge the assumptions is critical. The candidate will be prepared to work in a fast paced and collaborative environment in which the best ideas regularly set the course of the team and Program.

In this role will offer you the following daily key responsibilities:

• Contribute to internal & external design reviews as a liaison between LM design engineering & Production Test to evaluate producibility, commonality, and requirements optimization
• Develop/steer/improve tools & processes (incl. software) to evaluate designs early in their lifecycle to realize downstream benefits in cost, lead-time, & yield improvements
• Catalogue and monitor test paradigms for configuration, design criteria, etc. to drive standardization & optimization
• Proactively research & engage the industrial base to expand LM knowledge base and drive best practices and consistency with the testing strategies
• Share data & processes with Cross-BA/1LMX partners to drive Enterprise solutions (incl. LM Fellows network)

This position does not support teleworking; the preferred candidate will be located near our Lockheed Martin Space facility one of the Coolest places to work: Denver, Colorado , and be expected to work in the office.
Basic Qualifications:
To be effective, you will need to possess these basic qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering field (ie. mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, etc.).
• 7 years of experience in hardware design engineering, test engineering, test development, or test conduction/troubleshooting at any layer of assembly (part, component/item/product, subsystem, or system) for a relevant discipline/product (electrical, RF, mechanical, propulsion, etc.).
• 2 years of experience with new product introduction (first-time design, build, & test).
• Lean/Six-sigma experience (e.g., error-proofing, variation reduction).
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems; specific system experience not critical.
• You will need to be a US Citizen, and be able to obtain and maintain a US DoD SECRET clearance, to support this government contract, as well as successfully pass a drug and background check, in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Please note:

No clearance is required to apply, nor prior to start.
Desired Skills:
To be effective, ideally, you should also have:

• Master’s degree in engineering.
• Experience with test automation, built-in-test, lot testing, statistical sampling in lieu of test.
• Experience with transition from EDU hardware to Flight hardware.
• Experience with GSE-to-UUT interface control & optimization.
• Experience in new product introduction of high complexity, high mix products.
• Experience with Concurrent Engineering.
• Experience in a fast-paced, iterative design environment within Aerospace and Defense industries.
• Self-driven problem-solver willing to take risks and build something from the ground up; adding incremental value over-time, not waiting for perfection.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• High data literacy & data-driven mindset.

PLEASE NOTE-Other important information:

• By applying to this role, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities, within Lockheed Martin, 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.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Benefits of Employment:

Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually.

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


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Joining Lockheed Martin Space means becoming part of a global network of passionate professionals dedicated to safety and shaping the future of defense capabilities

At Space we value your skills, training, and education. We believe that by applying the highest standards of business ethics and visionary thinking, everything is within our reach – and yours as a Lockheed Martin Space employee. …just to name a few reasons to join Lockheed Martin Space, and experience your future!
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret
Other Important Information You Should Know
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. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 9x80 every other Friday off
Pay Rate: 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 $109,200 - $192,510. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: 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 only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Miscellaneous Engineering
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First