AI/ML Engineer Intern

Job Description

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.
Your Mission is Ours.

When it comes to using cutting-edge to tackle complex problems, Lockheed Martin is driven by a singular mission focus and desire to continuously innovate. Today's challenges to global security aren't just changing - they're accelerating faster than ever before. Through our dedication to our mission, our AI-enabled systems are changing the way militaries operate and protect their forces, the way first responders fight fires, and how researchers explore the far reaches of space and the ocean's depths.

The Lockheed Martin Artificial Intelligence Center (LAIC) team is seeking a motivated intern with hands-on experience in software engineering and to execute on and grow the LAIC's portfolio.

The LAIC's mission includes serving as a center of excellence for AI at Lockheed Martin both internally and externally facing. The candidate will work to disseminate best practices of the LAIC, build prototypes of new capabilities, and be a part of larger product teams solving larger-scale integrations. The candidate will be required to create knowledge materials whenever applicable and publish these best practices, in addition to meeting with other Lockheed Martin community members to discuss.

The responsibilities of this position include:

Collaborating with business stakeholders to identify business opportunities and requirements
Developing associated statistical models that deliver useful, actionable recommendations, or which augment human capabilities in various work settings
Modeling complex business and engineering problems
Discovering insights and deploying AI capabilities using and associated feature engineering techniques
Tracking projects and driving work on them through to completion
Implementing best technical practices from the fields of and software engineering

The candidate will need a combination of business focus, creative thinking, strong analytical and problem solving skills, and programming knowledge to be able to quickly cycle hypotheses through the discovery phase of the project. Successful candidates demonstrate excitement to learn new technologies and methodologies, while also being a collaborative teammate. Excellent communications skills are required to understand the needs of the business and to communicate the value of the models built back to the business.

Domestic travel may be required for customer interactions and team meetings (<10%).

Basic Qualifications

Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Information Sciences and Technology, or STEM related degree from an accredited college
Prior coursework or project experience in computer science, data science, or machine learning
Experience with Python programming language
ship required due to system access

Desired skills

Experience with DevSecOps software development
practices
Experience with Go, and/or Bash
Experience in applying any of the following
techniques to business problems: supervised
regression/classification, natural language processing,
deep learning, anomaly detection, and reinforcement
learning
Experience evaluating model performance, including
appropriate performance metric selection
Familiarity with Kubernetes (ex: Container Storage
Interfaces (CSI), Persistent Volumes, Helm/Kustomize)
Familiarity with Pipeline and GitOps Automation,
such as ArgoCD, Tekton, Gitlab CI/CD

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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At Lockheed Martin, we use our passion for purposeful innovation to help 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, develop, 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. We place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering an inclusive environment built upon integrity and corporate responsibility.

If this sounds like a culture you connect with, you're invited to apply for this role. Or, if you are unsure whether your experience aligns with the requirements of this position, we encourage you to search on Lockheed Martin Jobs, and apply for roles that align with your qualifications.

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.

Ability to work remotely

Full-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work remotely full time at a location other than a Lockheed Martin designated office/job site. Employees may travel to a Lockheed Martin office for periodic meetings.

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 $53,227 - $70,708. 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.

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 $61,485 - $70,708. 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.