Software Engineer - Early Career

Standard 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. This is a place for engineers, scientists, and problem-solvers who are ready to engage deeply, think critically, and build with purpose. You will not just launch a career. You will be part of something bigger. This is where the best are built.

Lockheed Martin Rotary & Mission Systems is seeking a full-time Early Career Software Engineer to join our Mission Systems Engineering team. In this role, you will work closely with a multi-discipline team of engineers to develop embedded Board Support Package (BSP) and Built-in-Test (BIT) software for our custom hardware solutions. You will write requirements, develop source code, integrate, and verify software in a lab environment. The successful candidate will have experience with C, Linux-based operating systems, and team-based software projects. The successful candidate will also be flexible, motivated, detail-focused, and team-oriented. Must be a US Citizen. This position will require a government security clearance. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

Basic Qualifications

-Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent STEM computing field.

-Academic or professional experience using C.

-Academic or professional experience on at least one team-based project.

-Must be a US Citizen. This position will require a government security clearance. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

Desired Skills

-Experience writing or debugging hardware control software, bootloaders, or using programmable single board computers (such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or similar).

-Experience using instrumentation to analyze and debug systems (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, serial console).

-Experience using, developing for, or building software within Linux.

-Basic understanding of software development methodologies (especially Agile).

-Basic understanding of software life-cycle development stages, activities, and process.

-Experience with Git/GitLab, Visual Studio, Fortify, or Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence).