Skunk Works Project Engineer (Level 3)

Lockheed Martin Corporation•Palmdale, CA

48d•$85,500 - $170,315•Onsite

About The Position

The Skunk Works (Lockheed Martin Advanced Development Program) is looking for world class talent in Project Engineering to be a part of a team that will carry on our 80 year tradition making history in advanced aircraft development. The ADP Skunkworks Vehicle Management team writes software for a wide range of aircraft subsystems that make the airplane fly. We are a highly imaginative and productive team working on a new development project to create modular and reusable software to create not only our current project but an entire future portfolio. We operate out of the Skunkworks headquarters in Palmdale, CA in a fully onsite and hands on team. This team is working new development software where our team members uses a wide application of modern technical principles, theories, and concepts in the software field to develop, integrate, and test software products that can be applied to air and ground based systems. You will be joining a very open and inquisitive team filled with diverse perspectives and a common mission. Join us onsite in sunny Palmdale, California, where our team operates on a flexible schedule to enhance work-life balance. Discover Palmdale. This position is for a project engineer to collaborate with the software development teams for critical programs. You will be able to take your experience as a software or project engineer and help lead the team to meet release milestones. The responsibilities for this role will include creating, maintaining, managing, and briefing multiple tasks within our ADP projects. The successful candidate will collaborate with Software Program Management, CAMs, tech leads, and other capability leads in support of technical execution. They will also work directly multiple software teams, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters ensuring we have planned, can execute, and will release software to meet our stakeholder requirements. The successful candidate will be part of a high-performing multi-site team and must be self-motivated with a strong work ethic, time-management, and interpersonal skills. The successful candidate must have demonstrated effective communication skills as the position will require frequent inter-organizational and outside customer interactions. This position offers a motivated engineer the opportunity to have a high impact on a productive program as they grow their own skillset. Travel up to 10% may be required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a STEM field or equivalent relevant experience.
Experience coordinating across multiple functions or engineering teams
Demonstrated organizational and communication skills
Must be a US Citizen.
This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years

Nice To Haves

JIRA, writing JQL, and Confluence experience strongly desired
Strong Agile Methodology understanding
Good understanding of Earned Value Management (EVM)
Good understanding of Software development lifecycle
DevSecOps or Tech Stack experience
Automation experience
Python or Java experience
Demonstrated self-starter requiring minimal supervision with excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Responsibilities

Creating, maintaining, managing, and briefing multiple tasks within our ADP projects
Collaborating with Software Program Management, CAMs, tech leads, and other capability leads in support of technical execution
Working directly multiple software teams, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters ensuring we have planned, can execute, and will release software to meet our stakeholder requirements