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This position operates to innovate and develop emerging technologies, products, and investments to define future scalable technical solutions that can be transitioned across programs and into production. Working as the technical counterpart to the Senior Program Manager, the Chief Engineer will partner closely with RF Product Center leaders to identify, mature, and transition advanced capabilities from concept through operational deployment. This role will help define the technical and capability roadmaps for future Sensor product development while ensuring new capabilities are architected for manufacturability, affordability, reuse, scalability, and sustainment. Success requires balancing technical depth with strategic thinking, working across Lockheed Martin Business Areas, Engineering disciplines, Product Management, Operations, Advanced Programs, Business Development, and program teams to align technology investments with future business needs.\nKey Responsibilities\nServe as the technical lead for Lockheed Martin Sensor product’s future capabilities and strategic initiatives that are not yet aligned to an existing program of record\nDevelop and maintain the Sensor product technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with customer needs, business strategy, and technology investments\nPartner with the Program Manager to mature emerging capabilities from concept through program adoption and production transition\nPartner with Architects to define scalable architectures that maximize reuse across programs while balancing cost, schedule, technical performance, and manufacturability\nProvide technical leadership across Product Management, Engineering, Operations, Business Development, Advanced Programs, and functional organizations\nEvaluate emerging technologies and recommend investment priorities that strengthen long-term competitiveness\nSupport CRAD, IRAD, proposal, and capture activities by developing technical strategies, solution concepts, and execution approaches\nLead engineering cost, schedule, and technical development execution and integration activities across multiple organizations and Business Areas\nIdentify technical risks early and develop mitigation strategies that enable successful transition into programs and production\nChampion systems engineering rigor while enabling rapid innovation and technology maturation\nFoster collaboration across engineering disciplines and organizational boundaries to ensure technically integrated solutions\nWork closely with business development, product management, sensor architects to help support the development of product, capability, and technology roadmaps in order to define investment strategy for future Sensor development\nGuide IPT leads and cross-functional teams in program planning, scheduling, trade studies, design concepts, verification, and critical life cycle reviews along with DVT, CQT, and SQT level testing\nEnsure engineering teams are staffed appropriately for all activities\nSupport internal and external customer meetings, IPT status, Technical Interchange Meetings, Technical Readiness Reviews, metrics generation, PDRs, CDRs, and Failure Review Boards, Risk Management, and Mission Success Reviews\nSuccess requires more than technical excellence; it demands system’s thinking, strategic agility, the ability to build and manage complex cross-organizational and cross-Business Area relationships, and transforming emerging concepts into scalable, reusable products that can be successfully adopted by programs and transitioned into production\nBasic Qualifications\nAbility to obtain and maintain a security clearance.\nThe successful candidate must have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university, with existing professional experience.\nCandidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain a security Clearance with an investigation in the past 5 years.\nThe successful candidate must have significant multi-discipline technical leadership experience and be able to manage a highly complex technical project with little oversight.\nThe candidate must be able to manage a budget, forecast resources, and develop close working relationships with associate IPT Leads, functional managers, and Customer counterparts.\nDesired Skills\nDemonstrated experience serving as a Chief Engineer, Lead Systems Engineer, Technical Director, or equivalent technical leadership role on complex defense or aerospace programs.\nExperience developing technical strategies and architectures for advanced technologies or complex systems.\nExperience supporting proposal development, technology demonstrations, or capture activities.\nExperience transitioning technology from development into production and/or operational programs.\nExperience working in product-based organizations or reusable product architectures.\nExperience with technology maturation, prototype development, and transition planning.\nFamiliarity with CRAD, IRAD, or other technology investment strategies.\nStrong systems engineering background with experience balancing technical performance, manufacturability, affordability, and lifecycle considerations.\nExperience collaborating across multiple organizations and Business Areas.\nDemonstrated ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.\nExperience developing long-range technology roadmaps.\nPrior experience with RF Sensor development is highly desired.\nExperience in planning and leading technical solutions from proposal through all aspects of development. This includes SRR, PDR, CDR, Qualification, System Verification & Test, FCA and transition to production.\nExperience in leading or presenting at technical reviews and boards is desired.\nPay Information\nFull-Time Salary Range: $182500.00 - $338900.00\nAt Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow-both professionally and personally.\nThe 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.\nBenefits 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.\nAnnual 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.\nFor (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. 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