You will be the Materials Engineer Stf - E4 for the Advanced Materials & Technology Insertion (AMTI) team which is responsible for advancing hypersonic and unmanned air-vehicle materials and structural engineering.
What You Will Be DoingLockheed Martin Aeronautics pioneers the next generation of hypersonic and unmanned air vehicles for national defense. The Thermal & Structural Materials Engineer will work in a growing team in modelling and simulation for the AMTI (Advanced Materials & Technology Insertion) team supporting the development cycle - from conceptual thermal-structural design through detailed finite element modeling, ground test verification, and flight test analysis - ensuring high-performing systems that survive the most extreme aerothermal environments. The candidate will serve as a technical leader, driving thermal and structural architecture decisions and verification strategies across programs.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Support thermal and thermo-structural design and analysis of hypersonic and unmanned air vehicles at conceptual, preliminary and detailed design maturities.
- Define thermal-structural system architectures and material selection strategies for vehicles operating in sustained high-speed, high-temperature flight environments.
- Perform coupled fluid-thermal-structural analysis of flight vehicles using high-fidelity physics CFD and FEA methods, including conjugate heat transfer and thermal-structural coupling for metallics, composites and coatings.
- Lead test and evaluation (T&E) planning and execution, including test requirement development, ground-test article design, instrumentation planning and data acquisition strategy for thermal and thermal-structural test campaigns.
- Collaborate across aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, electrical and systems engineering teams to deliver integrated vehicle solutions.
Who You AreYou are a technical leader with deep expertise in thermal-structural analysis, material modeling, and high-fidelity simulation. You thrive in collaborative environments, communicate complex results clearly, and drive decisions that shape high-performance vehicle designs. Your experience with CFD, FEA, and scripting tools enables you to create robust models and guide multidisciplinary teams toward mission success.
Further Information About This OpportunityMUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN - This position is located at a facility that requires special access. The selected candidate must be able to obtain a secret clearance.
Basic Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Materials, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics or related field.
- Professional experience in aerospace thermal or thermal-structural engineering, propulsion or high temperature/high-speed flight environments.
Desired Skills- Independent thinker and self-reliant to maintain skills, knowledge, and expertise.
- Master's or Ph.D. with emphasis preferred on thermal - fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, advanced power and propulsion, structures, aircraft, missile or hypersonic vehicle programs.
- Prior formal role or certification in test and evaluation (DT&E/OT&E), including experience defining test matrices, pass/fail criteria, and qualification test plans.
- Direct test and evaluation experience, including ground test planning, thermal/environmental instrumentation, data acquisition, and test-to-analysis correlation.
- Strong programming skills in software such as MATLAB, Python or similar for tool development and automated data reduction.
- Demonstrated expertise building and running finite element models for coupled thermal-structural loading and fluid-thermal analysis in ANSYS (Fluent/Mechanical), COMSOL Multiphysics, CREO, NASTRAN, Abaqus, Thermal Desktop, SINDA or equivalent FEA/CFD tools.
- Experience with chemical kinetics, finite-rate chemistry, or ablation/erosion modeling.
- Flight, power or propulsion test experience, including instrumentation design, telemetry, and post-flight thermal-structural reconstruction.
- Experience with specialized thermal ground test facilities (arc-jet, radiant heating, thermal-vacuum).
- Material characterization experience at elevated temperatures for ceramics, coatings, or high-temperature composites.
- Experience leading integrated product teams (IPTs) or mentoring junior engineers as a technical lead.
- Experience preparing formal technical documentation, including test procedures and verification reports.
- CAD experience with SolidWorks, Siemens NX or CATIA.
- Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance.
Pay InformationFull-Time Salary Range: $104900.00 - $194700.00
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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.
