Ground Data Software Engineer - Early Career

Lockheed Martin•Littleton, CO

1d•Onsite

About The Position

By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours. The Ground Data Systems and Services Organization is responsible for the architecture, development, deployment, and operation of Ground Data Systems (GDS) 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. Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a full-time Early Career Software Engineer. This position will support 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. In addition to adapting and modernizing existing tools for new missions, candidates will travel (< 25%, including 2nd and 3rd shift times) to support on-console and on-call operational activities during critical mission activities.

Requirements

Software development and maintenance experience in Python and Java.
Experience with Linux environments and comfortable with basic Unix commands, utilities, and system administration activities
Experience developing in and supporting software in a Linux environment, including basic shell scripting
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written with the ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner to varying levels of teammates, management, and customers
Must be a US Citizen due to program requirements
Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
Strong user support skills able to directly address user concerns.
Experience with software development practices: version control systems (Git, Gitlab), issue tracking (JIRA), procedure/wiki documentation (Confluence)

Nice To Haves

Independent problem-solving skills.
Experience working under an Agile Framework (Scrum)
Project management skills that involve working with multiple teams and developing project schedules
Demonstrated experience supporting multiple projects simultaneously
Experience using OS/COMET
Experience performing web application development including RESTful services, web frontends, and integration with webservers, databases, and messaging platforms
Project experience with Jupyter Notebooks for data analysis
Experience with container and cloud-based technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with JavaScript web frameworks (React, Angular)
Experience with basic networking design and practices
Experience in developing SW for support of spacecraft operations, including telemetry and data processing, data analysis
Experience working with NASA, specifically Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
Experience working Ground Data Systems in support of spacecraft operations

Responsibilities

Perform software code, unit test, and integration test development for a variety of ground applications, tools and scripts in support of spacecraft test, analysis and operations
Support software requirements development and formal verification development and tests
Assist in operational support to spacecraft teams to deployed environments, including internally developed and 3rd party ground software. Includes ensuring real-time dataflows, data management process, querying processes, command building tools, and analysis tools
Support troubleshooting of deployed ground system hardware, operating systems, and networks, coordinating with System Admins to resolve issues
Understand spacecraft flight software and operations and how they integrate with the ground software system
Integrate flight software updates into attitude prediction and environmental torque models
Perform SW development and maintenance in a variety of languages (Java, Python, Perl, C++, C, JavaScript, Groovy)
Develop web-based RESTful services, GUI interfaces, tools to transform data, automation pipelines for spacecraft operations, and more
Deploy and integrate software to operational environments, and provide operational support to systems and subsystems engineers within Orion
Perform tasks in accordance with Orion and Lockheed Martin software development best practices and defined SW development processes
Investigate opportunities to integrate AI into data processing and data analysis