Description: Our products play an important role in the national security of the United States and more than 70 other countries, ensuring peace and stability around the world. Highly trained and specialized personnel and facilities are key to the company's unrivaled success in the aeronautics industry. Our workforce of more than 30,000 has pre-eminent expertise in advanced aircraft design and production, modification and support, stealth technology and systems integration and information technology.

Join the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Field Sustainment Team as a Senior Aircraft Systems Engineer at our Hill Air Force Base facility! Weapons Integration Engineering duties include:

• Continually track the capabilities of near-term, mid-term, and far-term air-to-air, air-to-ground weapons employment, Electronic Protection (EP) systems, and Targeting Pod (TGP) capabilities and potential adversary counter capabilities.

• Obtain data from validated sources and analyze weapons employment and threat data to identify and evaluate F-16 capabilities.

• Contribute to engineering feasibility studies that lead to recommendations for hardware and software upgrades and modifications to maximize aircraft capabilities.

• Provide technical input while participating in weapons integration/development, meetings and conferences such as Interface Control Working Groups (ICWG), Technical Interchange Meetings (TIM), Flight Test Plan Working Groups (TPWG) and any other relevant teams.

• Work with weapons development vendors to accomplish System Integration Lab (SIL) testing. This position requires occasional travel.

• Must be a U.S. citizen. Must possess at minimum an Interim Secret Security Clearance. This position is located in an area that requires special access. Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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Basic Qualifications:

The following Basic Qualifications are skills that a candidate must possess to be considered for this position:

• Bachelors degree from an accredited College or University with at least 9 years relevant experience.

• Tactical aircraft avionics experience. Air-to-Air and Air-to -Ground weapons employment/integration and Targeting Pod (TGP) experience.

• Significant knowledge of Laser guided and Inertial Navigation System (INS)/Global Positioning System (GPS) air to ground weapon systems.

• Significant knowledge of Radar Guided and Infrared Air-to-Air missile guidance systems.

• Knowledge of Surface-to-Air and Air-to-Air threat systems and tactics.

Desired Skills:

The following Desired Skills are not required but are those skills that would set a candidate apart from the others:

• Knowledge of aircraft systems, sub systems, and weapons software and hardware integration processes related to System Integration Lab (SIL) and flight testing.

• Operational military aircraft flight experience.

• F-16 aircraft avionics experience.

• Electronic Warfare (EW) and Electronic Protection (EP) systems knowledge and experience.

• Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft Office Applications familiarity.

• Experience to effectively interfacing with civilian, government, Department of Defense, and defense industry representatives.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills. Self starter. Able to work well in a team environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years

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

Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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: AERONAUTICS COMPANY

Relocation Available: Yes

Career Area: Systems Engineering: Other

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First