Job Description
About the Team:
For over 60 years, the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) team has supported the Navy's mission to provide affordable and credible strategic defense. We offer unique career opportunities and challenges on a program with a rich history and exciting future. We help keep this nation and our allies secure. The FBM Program is experiencing significant growth, and we need your expertise to deliver amazing new technologies to our customers while maintaining the technical requirements of the strategic deterrence.
About the Role:
Lockheed Martin is seeking a senior or mid-career GNC Engineer to serve as a Certified Principal Engineer (CPE) for a high-performance Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) system. The incumbent will be responsible for overseeing production readiness, ensuring compliance with aerospace quality standards, and driving continuous-improvement initiatives for the IMU design. This role will collaborate closely internally as well as with industry partner teams to translate system requirements into manufacturable solutions while maintaining traceability and configuration control.
Successful applicants will generally possess a minimum of 3+ years of related experience and may have a post-secondary degree or training in a related discipline.
Basic Qualifications
Skill Requirements:
• Professional engineering experience working directly with navigation hardware
• Knowledge of inertial measurement unit design concepts
• Demonstrated experience in providing technical guidance and support across multiple disciplines
• Experience facilitating collaboration among stakeholders to drive project success
Security Clearance / Work Authorization:
• To meet requirements of the program/customer, this position requires the selected employee to be a U.S. Citizen.
• Although not required for consideration, applicants must be able to obtain a Secret clearance prior to start.
• Selected candidates will be required to maintain a minimum level, government issued Secret clearance, for long term employment on this program.
Desired skills
• Master's degree in a related field with at least 3 years of professional experience
• Demonstrated experience with Certified Principal Engineer (CPE) and/or Responsible Systems Engineer (RSE) processes and responsibilities
• Direct experience developing or integrating IMU subsystems for flight-critical platforms
• Experience analyzing ground and/or flight test data, including proficiency with data-analysis tools (e.g., MATLAB) to derive performance trends
• Experience with Fortran, C++, or a different compiled computing language
• Experience in capturing, tracing, and verifying system requirements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to build effective relationships with team members
• Active DOD Secret or Top Secret security clearance
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 $101,000 - $178,135. 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 $116,200 - $201,365. 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.
