Senior Software Quality Engineer - Elite Aerospace Flexible

Lockheed Martin Corporation; Palmdale (CA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible work arrangements (4x10)

Job summary

Lockheed Martin, Skunk Works in Palmdale, CA, is seeking a Software Quality Engineer (SWQE) to ensure safety, reliability, and cyber‑resilience of the software that powers next‑generation aerospace systems. You will perform AS9100 audit support, define program metrics, evaluate processes, and present quality assessments to customers and program management.

Occasional travel and off‑shift work may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field from an accredited college.
• Experience in software/hardware development and/or production environments.
• Experience supporting Agile/Scrum software development.
• Experience with one or more of the following: C++, C#, C, Java, and/or Python.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and eligible for a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Independent evaluation of software processes and products and their conformity to standards, models, and software engineering program-defined processes.
• Ensuring quality is built into program processes and products by checking for completeness, consistency, correctness, and conformance throughout the entire software development life cycle and maintenance activities to determine whether the program's objectives have been satisfied and if continuous improvement is needed.
• Perform AS9100 audit support, program metric definition and reporting, supplier surveys, evaluation of nonconformance trending, and driving lessons learned and best practices.
• Ability to present software quality assessment of products and processes to the customer and program management.
• Track and manage nonconformances, software defects, trend analysis, root cause analysis, and corrective and preventive action activities for the program.
• Occasionally travel and work off-shift and weekends.

Skills

Agile/Scrum

Programming languages: C/C++/C#/Java/P

US citizenship + security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Job description

Lockheed Martin, Skunk Works in Palmdale, CA, is seeking a Software Quality Engineer (SWQE) to ensure safety, reliability, and cyber‑resilience of the software that powers next‑generation aerospace systems. You will perform AS9100 audit support, define program metrics, evaluate processes, and present quality assessments to customers and program management.

Occasional travel and off‑shift work may be required.