Remote Staff AI Research Engineer Generative AI Enterprise

Lockheed Martin Corporation; Texas; Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible work arrangements

401(k) match

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible Spending Accounts

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Education Assistance

Job summary

Lockheed Martin is seeking a Staff AI Research Engineer to advance the Engineering Generative AI portfolio. The role focuses on applying modern AI tools to solve complex challenges, building scalable and governed AI capabilities for enterprise use, and maturing validated prototypes into production-ready solutions.

Ideal candidates bring advanced expertise in Generative AI, AI/ML research and software engineering, with a track record of deploying AI at scale while adhering to governance and

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience deploying AI/ML solutions at scale.
• Experience with Python or C++ and production software practices for production applications.
• Hands-on experience developing, fine-tuning, integrating, or deploying large language models and Generative AI applications.
• Demonstrated expertise in prompt engineering, including designing, testing, and optimizing prompts for reliability, safety, and performance.
• Experience deploying or hosting AI solutions and applications in production environments.
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline.
• US Citizenship is required due to system access.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-value AI opportunities with Engineering users and translate workflows into technical requirements and deployable solutions.
• Research, develop, test, deploy, and sustain Generative AI, AI/ML, and agentic applications that improve Engineering ways of working.
• Design and implement AI algorithms, including LLM-based retrieval, tool use, orchestration, and decision-support workflows.
• Build and optimize full-stack AI solutions, including user experiences, APIs, backend services, data connections, model integrations, and deployment pipelines.
• Develop prototypes using approved AI-assisted development tools and mature successful capabilities into secure, tested, enterprise-deployable solutions.
• Apply Responsible AI Governance and Ethics (RAGE), cybersecurity, architecture, and DevSecOps requirements throughout development, testing, deployment, and sustainment.
• Evaluate solution performance, reliability, safety, and user value through AI evaluation, automated testing, regression testing, monitoring, and user feedback.
• Partner with key architecture and data teams to establish sustainable solutions and integrations.

Skills

AI/ML development

Python

C++

Generative AI

Prompt engineering

Production deployment

US Citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

LlamaIndex

AWS

Job description

Lockheed Martin is seeking a Staff AI Research Engineer to advance the Engineering Generative AI portfolio. The role focuses on applying modern AI tools to solve complex challenges, building scalable and governed AI capabilities for enterprise use, and maturing validated prototypes into production-ready solutions.

Ideal candidates bring advanced expertise in Generative AI, AI/ML research and software engineering, with a track record of deploying AI at scale while adhering to governance and