Missile Systems Engineer — Lifecycle & Validation

Lockheed Martin; Chelmsford (MA); On-site; USD 79,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Lockheed Martin in Chelmsford, Massachusetts is seeking a System Engineer for the Missiles & Fire Control Systems team. You will translate customer requirements into missile-system solutions through the full system lifecycle, from concept to disposal.

The role emphasizes planning, integration, verification, and validation across hardware and software, with collaboration across engineering disciplines and program personnel. A secret clearance is required for this position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience with hardware design efforts including requirements derivation through product integration support.
• Experience collaborating across engineering disciplines and program personnel and participation in cross functional product development.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance

Responsibilities

• Performing functional, timeline and trade-study analyses to allocate requirements and define interfaces for hardware and software.
• Generating and executing subsystem- and system-level integration and test procedures, ensuring they meet cost, schedule and risk constraints.
• Preparing test equipment and facilities, coordinating with test labs to support DVT, ESS, EMI and ATP events.
• Supporting failure investigations, diagnosing hardware, software or test-equipment anomalies and driving corrective actions to closure.
• Providing engineering evaluations for redesigns or upgrades to existing missile hardware, assessing impact on performance, cost and schedule.
• Maintaining configuration control and documentation of test results, verification reports and lessons‑learned artifacts.
• Collaborating with cross‑functional teams—systems, software, hardware, test, manufacturing and quality to ensure seamless integration and compliance with program milestones.

Skills

Hardware design

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Model-Based Systems Engineering

DevSecOps

Agile methodologies

Security clearance readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Engineering or related

Tools

DOORS

NextGen DOORS

Job description

Lockheed Martin in Chelmsford, Massachusetts is seeking a System Engineer for the Missiles & Fire Control Systems team. You will translate customer requirements into missile-system solutions through the full system lifecycle, from concept to disposal.

The role emphasizes planning, integration, verification, and validation across hardware and software, with collaboration across engineering disciplines and program personnel. A secret clearance is required for this position.