Lockheed Martin Space is seeking an Electro-Optical Systems Engineer to join the Optical Systems Engineering team! We are looking for a highly motivated Electro-Optical Systems Engineer to become a member of the Systems Engineering and Integration Team (SEIT) and drive requirements and verification through all system design reviews to sell-off. You will be responsible for end‑to‑end development, maintenance, and governance of the requirements for Electro-Optical designs across the program lifecycle, from preliminary design through deployment. As part of the systems group you will assist with management of program subsystem, unit, and component specifications, requirements and verification material, interface documents, and related engineering documents. This will involve being a point of coordination between the system teams, higher level assembly teams in the larger program, sub-contractor teams, customer teams, and management.
Your responsibilities in this role will include the following:
- Being a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team for the full product lifecycle.
- Collaborate with engineers, program managers, and subject‑matter experts to develop, analyze, and verify subsystem level requirements and interfaces and document & manage accordingly.
- Oversee technical execution of component needs as well as drive cross-functional groups to deliver solutions to meet subsystem and customer requirements.
- Coordinate with engineering to execute verification analyses and tests.
- Participate in subsystem engineering, analysis, and integration activities,
- Organize/coordinate/develop subsystem compliance objective evidence creation and documentation.
- Support organization and coordination of subsystem design reviews.
- Experienced leading teams with complex, competing priorities maximizing success across multiple objectives and constraints
- Proficiency in Systems Engineering
- Experience with requirements and verification (including requirement engineering, requirements management, verification and validation, test planning)
- Producing and maintaining ICDs
- Understanding of systems architecture, interface control, and requirement traceability concepts.
- Excellent communication skills—able to produce clear documentation and present technical information to diverse audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in multi‑disciplinary teams and influence without direct authority.
- General systems engineering and analysis
- Experience with space-based electro-optical payload systems and their sub-systems and components; including design, development, testing; EO/IR, RF, electro-optical, sensor, laser, spacecraft, and ground systems
- Familiarity with one or more of the following: electronics and FPGA technical experience, electro-optical sensor system technical experience
- Development of test procedures for subsystem level verification
- Knowledge of industry-standard verification methodologies as well as tools such as IBM DOORS or equivalent
- Familiarity with traceability between requirements, design, verification and objective evidences
- Experience with reviewing and evaluating verification Objective Evidences and collaborating with engineering design teams to identify and resolve verification issues
- Prior experience with major milestone reviews (such as SRR, PDR, CDR, etc.)
- Experience with space-based electro-optical payload systems and their sub-systems and components; including design, development, testing
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical and/or engineering teams
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Experience in Class C development environment
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $110300.00 - $204900.00
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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed 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(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (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.
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