Senior AI Research Engineer (Hybrid, Fort Worth)

Lockheed Martin • Fort Worth, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Lockheed Martin, we bring together people with a passion for purposeful innovation to keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry, making Lockheed Martin a great place to work. We prioritize our employees by providing 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. We emphasize empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying corporate responsibility. The Lockheed Martin Artificial Intelligence Center (LAIC) team is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to support the Applied AI team and specifically the Cognitive Modules portfolio. As a key member, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, from prototypes to deployment, and contribute to the development of innovative solutions that provide discriminating capability to our customers.

Requirements

• You are a highly motivated and experienced individual with a strong background in software engineering and computer science
• You have a strong work ethic, self-motivation, time management, and interpersonal skills
• You are familiar with current computer science paradigms, including object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, concurrency, and I/O (block storage network database)
• You have experience developing code to solve complex problems and field innovative solutions
• You are a team player with excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or other related discipline
• Experience with machine learning algorithms, in particular computer vision
• Experience with a deep learning library, such as PyTorch, Torch, Keras, Tensorflow, Scikit-learn (sklearn), or opencv
• Experience with python
• Must be a US Citizen; this position will require a government security clearance

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing and working with tactical weapon, vehicle, and/or mission systems software
• Experience writing custom and novel machine learning architectures
• Work with real-world, dynamic datasets
• Experience building and deploying software for defense mission systems
• Experience with real-time embedded software engineering
• Experience with hardware-accelerated computing for both CPUs and GPUs (e.g. CUDA, Intel oneAPI, SYCL)
• Experience with model deployment software libraries and stacks (e.g. NVIDIA TensorRT, Triton Inference Server, OnnxRuntime)
• Experience deploying AI-enabled systems in multiple environments (e.g. cloud, edge devices)
• Experience with high-performance computing

Responsibilities

• Developing software products that implement Artificial Intelligence to provide cutting-edge solutions to our customers
• Engaging in every phase of the system development lifecycle, including requirements generation, system and software design, implementation, integration, and flight test
• Participating in activities such as proof of concepts, development of prototypes, building demonstrators, and transition to production
• Leveraging current computer science paradigms, including object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, concurrency, and I/O (block storage network database)
• Developing code to solve complex problems and field innovative solutions

Benefits

• flexible work schedules
• comprehensive benefits
• competitive pay
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability
• Long-Term Disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• EAP
• Education Assistance
• Parental Leave
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons (for non-represented full-time employees)
• at least 90 hours for holidays (for non-represented full-time employees)
• 6.67 hours of Vacation per month (for represented full time employees)
• up to 52 hours of sick leave annually (for represented full time employees)
• at least 96 hours for holidays (for represented full time employees)
• incentive plan eligible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees