Systems Engineer - Early Career

  • Lockheed Martin Corporation
  • Huntsville, Alabama
  • Full Time

Description: Lockheed Martin 'Ahead of Ready'

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 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. This is a place for engineers, scientists, and problem-solvers who are ready to engage deeply, think critically, and build with purpose. You will not just launch a career. You will be part of something bigger. This is where the best are built.

The modern missile-threat landscape is characterized by increasing complexity and rapid evolution, making it essential to adopt a multifaceted defense approach.

At Lockheed Martin, we recognize the critical importance of developing and integrating advanced solutions to protect people and nations worldwide.

Detecting an adversary's missile launch, identifying its intended target, calculating its precise trajectory, launching an interceptor, and guiding that interceptor to successfully destroy the threat is an extraordinarily complex challenge.

It demands a seamless integration of advanced technologies, sophisticated systems, and highly skilled personnel.

The Lockheed Martin Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) team is seeking a Systems Engineer - Performance Analyst to be part of a team developing missile defense technology that could forever change our ability to deter and respond to adversity.

You can learn more about the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) by visiting this link

As an NGI Performance Analysis Engineer, you will join the System Simulation and Performance team on the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) program.

In this role, you will:

  • Support the development of medium and high-fidelity Modeling and Simulation (M&S) software
  • Run medium and high-fidelity digital system simulation tools on a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster
  • Integrate elements of the weapon system into performance analysis products
  • Modify code in MATLAB, Python, and Linux shell
  • Develop, update, and run scripts to process data outputs and performance results
  • Analyze, evaluate, and communicate technical system performance results and behavior to stakeholders
  • Collaborate with the organization and customer community to ensure consensus and understanding of system performance, trades, and design maturity

You can learn more about Huntsville, AL here.

'Rocket City', Alabama.

Learn more about Lockheed Martin's comprehensive benefits package.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Math, or Data Analytics
  • Experience with C++, Python, or MATLAB
  • Knowledge of Git or Gitlab
  • Knowledge of Performance Analysis
  • Eligibility to Obtain DoD Secret Security Clearance - U.S. Citizenship is required

Desired Skills:

  • Active or Current DoD Secret (or above) Security clearance
  • Experience with Linux operating systems and shell scripting (Bash or tsch)
  • Experience executing analysis on high-performance computing (HPC) clusters (Slurm, OpenShift)
  • Experience with CI/CD Pipeline development (Gitlab runner, Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with Dashboard development (Dash, plotly, bokeh, matplotlib)
  • Familiar with developing/integrating custom python tools for data extraction, transformation, visualization, and storage
  • Familiar with CMake
  • Familiar with Modeling & Simulation
  • Familiar with Statistical Modeling
  • Familiar with algorithm development and testing (scheduling, graph, linear programming, dynamic programming, etc.)
  • Familiar with distributed simulations and API development

Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: Secret

Other Important Information You Should Know

Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.

Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.

Schedule for this Position: 9x80 every other Friday off

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.

The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.

Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They're dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.

Experience Level: 4 yr and up College

Business Unit: SPACE

Relocation Available: Possible

Career Area: Systems Engineering: Other

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First

Job ID: 523570482
Originally Posted on: 6/4/2026

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