Lockheed Martin

Senior Reliability Engineer

Lockheed Martin$95K — $178K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-10 years in reliability engineering for complex systems like spacecraft or missiles
  • Experience with FMEA, FTA, and reliability predictions
  • Strong collaborative skills for working with multi-functional teams
  • U.S. Citizenship and ability to maintain a Top Secret security clearance
  • Familiarity with reliability standards (MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-STD-1629, etc.)
  • Statistical analysis applied to engineering decisions

Responsibilities

  • Support space programs with reliability recommendations and analyses
  • Conduct trade studies for system architectures during development
  • Develop and execute reliability modeling and simulations
  • Recommend design variations and testing methods to enhance product reliability
  • Assess and ensure compliance of designs with mission requirements
  • Analyze performance data to identify reliability issues
  • Create risk models to highlight failure-prone components

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible work arrangements, including 4x10 schedules
  • 401(k) matching contributions
  • Generous paid time off, holidays, and parental leave
  • Education assistance for professional development
  • Life insurance and disability coverage options
Full Job Description
As a Reliability Engineer, you will:
• Drive Mission Success: Support multiple space programs by providing reliability-centric recommendations and analysis within a highly collaborative specialty engineering team.
• Shape System Architecture: Perform technical trade studies and evaluations of potential system architectures during early program development.
• Model Complex Systems: Develop, coordinate, and execute reliability modeling, simulations, and predictions as part of the central reliability team.
• Influence Hardware Design: Recommend advanced design variations, test methods (such as HALT/HASS), and statistical process control procedures to maximize product lifespan.
• Evaluate Program Technicalities: Assess both internal and external designs to ensure overall compliance with mission requirements and government agency objectives.
• Transform Raw Data: Compile and analyze performance reports, process control statistics, and flight/test variables affecting products.
• Architect Predictive Risk Models: Develop mathematical and statistical models to isolate hardware units, batches, or software processes posing excessive failure risks.

The information below reflects the standard job description for this position:

Develops, coordinates and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (doe) constructs. Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability. Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes. Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards. Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives. May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks. As necessary, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability. May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.

Basic Qualifications

Experience with Spacecraft, Missile, or similar complex systems and associated analyses

Experience with reliability and/or availability analyses and products such as FMEA, FTA, predictions, etc.

Experience interfacing with multi-functional teams and organizations

Willingness/ability to obtain/maintain a Top Secret security clearance; US Citizenship Required

Desired Skills

Experience in management and generation of at least 6 of the following products: Reliability Program Plans, Predictions, Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Availability, Maintainability Analysis and Predictions, Fault Tree Analysis, Probability Risk Assessment (PRA)

Familiarity with industry standards (i.e.; MIL-HDBK-217, Milt-STD-1629, MIL-STD-1543, MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472)

Experience applying statistics to decision making processes

Demonstrated behaviors of a systems thinker with the ability to select and apply appropriate systems thinking skills to solve problems and implement constructive change

Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice

Active or Current security clearance (TS/SCI or higher)

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $95900.00 - $178100.00

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.

About Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin Corporation is a global security company that engages in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems and products. It also provides a range of management, engineering, technical, scientific, logistic, and information services. The company operates in four business segments: Aeronautics, Electronic Systems, Information Systems and Global Services, and Space Systems. Lockheed Martin was formed in 1995 from the merger of Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta. In September 2008, Lockheed Martin Corporation acquired Aculight Corporation. In January 2009, it completed its acquisition of Universal Systems & Technology, Inc. (UNITECH). In August 2009, it completed its acquisition of Gyrocam Systems LLC (Gyrocam). Gyrocam develops and supplies gyrostabilized optical surveillance systems and sustainment field services, principally to the United States military. Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, a unit of the Company's Electronic Systems business area, would manage the Gyrocam business.

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