Software Engineering Intern - Summer 2027
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 9, 2026. Lockheed Martin scores A on the Alion truth index.
Standard Job Description
Performs assignments in technical/engineering organizations (e.g., Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering) during vacations and short-term breaks from college attendance while enrolled in an accredited degree program.
The Ground Data Systems and Services Organization is responsible for the architecture, development, deployment, and operation of Ground Data Systems across all customer programs. We provide secure, scalable, and standardized solutions for programs across the Commercial Civil Space line of business, serving as a centralized hub of engineering expertise that enables mission success through innovative, cost-competitive, technologies and services.
This position is for a software engineering intern to assist in software development for the Ground Software Tools (GST) and Ground Systems Integration (GSI) team of the Ground Data Systems (GDS) org in the Orion program. This position is in support of NASA's Artemis missions: Artemis 3, Artemis 4, Artemis 5 and any future missions in development.
This position will support development of big data tools and a data lake software architecture throughout a full stack and maintain tools including command line, GUI-based, and web-based applications that perform spacecraft telemetry data processing and analysis. All tasks will require working closely with the end users of all tools and responding to their feedback.
You will be a critical member on exciting, cutting-edge missions to bring humans back to the moon!
The primary responsibilities will include:
- Perform SW development and maintenance in a variety of languages (Go, Python, Java, C++, and more)
- Support software requirements development and formal verification development and tests
- Support troubleshooting of deployed ground system hardware, operating systems, and networks, coordinating with System Admins to resolve issues
- Assist in deploying and integrating software to operational environments, and provide operational support to systems and subsystems engineers within Orion
- Investigate opportunities to integrate AI into software engineering workflows.
Basic Qualifications
- Pursuing Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, or related STEM major
- Experience with Go, Python, and/or C++
- Experience with Linux environments and comfortable with basic Unix commands, utilities, and system administration activities
Desired Skills
- Strong user support skills able to directly address user concerns
- Independent problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of Ceph
- Knowledge of Redis
- Knowledge of S3
- Experience working with spacecraft telemetry
- Experience working with big data and solving big data problems
- Experience performing web application development including RESTful services, web frontends, and integration with webservers, databases, and messaging platforms
- Experience with Python, especially with the Pandas, plotly, and bokeh libraries
- Experience with Jupyter Notebooks for GUI development
- Experience with container and cloud-based technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with networking and installation of cloud systems requiring 24 hour uptime
- Experience working with sysadmins and performing sysadmin tasks
- Experience working under an Agile Framework (Scrum)
- Experience with integration testing
- Experience in developing SW for support of spacecraft operations, including telemetry and data processing, data analysis
- Experience working Ground Data Systems in support of spacecraft operations
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $22.66 - $31.67
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.