Software Engineer Staff - Clearance Required
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 21, 2026. Lockheed Martin scores A on the Alion truth index.
Standard Job Description
What We’re Doing
Lockheed Martin is developing innovative solutions to meet the evolving needs of our customers. As a leader in the defense and aerospace industry, we are committed to delivering high-quality products that exceed expectations. Our team is working on cutting-edge projects that require rigorous testing and validation to ensure product functionality and reliability.
The Work
The MSV-FWK Software Lead serves as the principal Software Engineering leader for the program and acts as the single point of contact for all software engineering activities. This role is responsible for the technical, cost, schedule, and execution performance of software development efforts while ensuring compliance with enterprise software engineering policies, contractual requirements, and program objectives.
The Software Lead provides strategic and technical leadership across agile software teams, drives software architecture and development execution, and ensures delivery of high-quality software solutions that support the Modeling and Simulation Vistas Framework (MSV-FWK) mission.
Key Responsibilities
Software Engineering Leadership
- Serve as the program's Software Engineering Lead and primary representative for the RMS Software Engineering discipline.
- Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing agile software teams, fostering technical excellence, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure software engineering disciplines are represented across Integrated Product Teams (IPTs)/Agile Teams and program technical forums.
- Support Software Engineering personnel in resolving technical, programmatic, organizational, and staffing challenges.
Technical Leadership and Architecture
- Own the software architecture roadmap, technical strategy, and evolution of program software capabilities.
- Guide the development and implementation of scalable, maintainable, and reusable software architectures and frameworks.
- Support software architects in implementing common solutions to recurring software challenges across product teams.
- Ensure the software baseline evolves appropriately throughout the lifecycle while maintaining cost and schedule commitments.
- Ensure adequate technical trades, analyses, experimentation, simulation activities, and engineering assessments are performed to inform key decisions.
Who We Are
Lockheed Martin is a global leader in the design, development, and manufacture of advanced defense and aerospace systems. Our team is comprised of talented professionals who are passionate about delivering innovative solutions that make a difference. We are committed to fostering a collaborative work environment that values excellence.
Why Join Us
-Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life
-Our flexible schedules, competitive pay and comprehensive benefits enable you to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Object-Oriented software development experience in C++ and/or Java.
- Experience leading Agile software development teams.
- Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and automation.
- Experience developing C++ real-time, multi-threaded, distributed, framework, or tactical systems software.
- Please Note: This position requires a secret level security clearance, with the ability to obtain a top secret level. You must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Desired Skills
- Experience serving as a Software Lead, Chief Engineer, Product Team Lead, or Technical Lead on complex defense or aerospace programs.
- Experience with software development metrics, technical performance measures, and engineering dashboards.
- Experience supporting program proposals, software estimates, and basis-of-estimate development.
- Experience managing software cost, schedule, technical performance, and execution risks.
- Experience with Software Modeling, UML, and/or Mermaid diagrams.
- Experience with Linux development environments.
- Experience with GitLab, Jira, Confluence, and Atlassian tool suites.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, containerization, Docker, Kubernetes, or DevSecOps environments.
- Experience analyzing software system throughput, latency, scalability, and performance.
- Experience with Software Architecture and Design.
- Strong technical leadership, organizational, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Experience planning and executing large-scale software development efforts.
- Experience working within Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) or Digital Engineering environments.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $120600.00 - $224000.00
At 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.
The 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.
Benefits 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.
- Annual 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.
- For (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. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.