Control Law Software Engineer - Level 2

Job Description

What is the position?
We are seeking a motivated Software Engineer to join the Flight Controls team within the Agile Drone Portfolio. This role supports the design, development, prototyping, integration, and test of cutting edge autonomous aircraft technologies. Our mission is to align aircraft design timelines with established customer needs for autonomous aircraft. You will work across multiple product lines, balancing cost and schedule pressures while delivering high impact software that meets evolving customer needs.
Who are you?
As a Software Engineer on the Flight Controls team, you bring a strong appetite for learning and the technical expertise to tackle challenging autonomous aircraft problems in a fast paced, results driven environment. You design and deliver reusable, common core software that lowers long term lifecycle costs while meeting stringent customer requirements. Your responsibilities span the entire development lifecycle-capturing requirements, creating robust designs, implementing code, executing testing, integrating with hardware, and supporting sustainment. Along the way, you'll develop your own software skills, learn how we integrate hardware and software, build interpersonal relationships with peers to facilitate healthy collaboration, and deliver on customer needs. You will be responsible for collaborating multiple other teams, including the Vehicle Systems software team, stakeholders and external customers to develop, integrate, test and deploy and flight controls software applications.

What We Offer:
Work on groundbreaking autonomous-aircraft platforms within the legendary Skunk Works culture.
Exposure to end-to-end aircraft development-from simulation to flight-test.
Mentorship from senior aerospace and software leaders

The selected candidate must possess an active Interim Secret clearance to start.

This position is in Fort Worth, TX Discover Fort Worth.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM field from an accredited institution.
0-3 years professional experience in flight controls software development or similar discipline
Hands on experience with MATLAB and Simulink for model based design and testing.

Desired skills

Active Secret Clearance (preferred).
Version Control & CI/CD: Proficiency with Git, GitLab, and automated build/test pipelines.
Programming Languages: Strong coding skills in C, C++ or equivalent.
Flight Control Theory: Familiarity with control algorithms, guidance, navigation, and autopilot architectures.
Cross Team Integration: Experience integrating software from multiple development teams or vendors.
Productivity Tools: Comfortable with the Microsoft Office suite, especially MS Teams and Project for coordination and reporting.
Proven work ethic, strong time management, and effective interpersonal communication.
Demonstrated ability to succeed in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.

EEO

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.

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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.

Other Important Information

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.

Work Schedule Information

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.

National Pay Statement

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 $76,500 - $134,895. 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.

Premium Pay Statement

Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $88,000 - $152,490. 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.
This position is incentive plan eligible.