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At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator, and builder. Our amazing people are on a mission to make a difference in the world and every day we use our unique skills and experiences to create, design and build solutions to some of the worlds’ hardest engineering problems. Our culture encourages employees to dream big, perform with excellence and create incredible products. We provide the resources, inspiration and focus and if you have the passion and courage to dream big, we want to build a better tomorrow with you.

The Testbed & Simulation Product Line is a fast paced, highly dynamic, and growing organization of 120 people that play a vital role in providing mission-critical intelligence solutions by optimizing satellite constellations, processing data through its entire life cycle and developing reliable cutting-edge infrastructure for information dissemination across a global network and to 30+ Space programs.

The Tb&S (Testbed and Simulation) Software Product Line is seeking a highly motivated Hardware/Electronics Engineer with a strong interest in hardware design, test and software scripting. This position will support full project life cycles of testbed products, including Hardware-In-the-Loop (HWILs) testbeds.

Duties will include but are not limited to teaming with the Tb&S Hardware Engineer for:

• System requirements understanding of our simulation products
• Understanding TB&S testbed architecture and developing signal channelization lists, wire diagrams, and top level designs
• Designing custom harness and cable designs
• Designing Custom Circuit Card Assemblies (CCA)
• Engineering Liaison with technicians during fabrication
• Troubleshooting design equipment
• Writing and executing Equipment Functional Checkout Procedures (EFCP)
• Collaboration across the different Tb&S teams and program teams
• Effectively communicate and coordinate with software/hardware leads within the Product Line.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college in Electrical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education with a talent for computer programming or scripting.
• Experience using laboratory test equipment for hardware debug, oscilloscopes, digital multimeters and protocol analyzers.
• Experience debugging electronics.
• Must be a US Citizen; this position will require a government security clearance. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

Desired Skills

• Experience writing and executing test procedures.
• Experience with cable/harness design.
• Broad range of electronic circuit design experience in areas such as analog, digital, microcontroller, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), and power supply circuits.
• Experience with communication protocols (i.e. RS-422, RS-485, SPI, I2C, etc.)
• Electronic circuit design experience.
• Experience with Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) design and schematic capture and PWB/PCB layout interface
• Experience in hardware/software integration, and troubleshooting.
• Troubleshooting and repair cable setups, PWB/PCB, Circuit Card Assemblies (CCA) and a variety of electronic equipment.
• Experience programming Xilinx FPGAs with VHDL or Verilog.
• Experience with hardware development life-cycle: requirements, design, development, integration and test, and maintenance.
• Willingness to learn new environments and work independently in a fast-paced development environment.
• Experience developing software using text-based languages, such as Python, C/C++/C#, Visual Basic.
• Experience with Unix and/or Linux environments.
• Experience developing FPGA images using VHDL.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $79300.00 - $147300.00

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.