AI/ML Engineering Staff (Electronic Warfare)

1. Job Overview:

Lockheed Martin is hiring for an AI/ML Engineering Staff (Electronic Warfare) role within the Lockheed Martin Artificial Intelligence Center (LAIC) Applied AI team. Join a dynamic group focused on innovation in electronic warfare, signal processing, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The team emphasizes rapid iteration and deployment and develops and maintains AI capabilities used across the Lockheed Martin enterprise.

Why Join Us:

• Be part of a team pushing the boundaries of innovation in electronic warfare, signal processing, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
• Work on a wide range of projects transforming approaches to complex challenges.
• Contribute to rapid iteration and deployment of cutting-edge AI capabilities impacting Lockheed Martin products and platforms.

Role Purpose:

The role is responsible for developing, integrating, and deploying autonomy and artificial intelligence algorithms for mission systems, supporting the technology development life cycle from requirements generation through development, integration, testing, and research in some organizations. This includes implementing algorithms for perception, motion/mission planning, controls, and translating requirements into development code and integrated products.

2. Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing, integrating, and deploying autonomy and artificial intelligence algorithms for mission systems, supporting the technology development life cycle from requirements generation through development, integration, and testing, as well as research in some organizations.
• Develops, integrates, and implements algorithms to enable perception, motion/mission planning, controls, etc. functionality in LM products and platforms.
• Translates requirements and applies requirements to development code, integrating autonomy, AI or machine learning algorithms to LM products and platforms.
• Determines software methods to best acquire and execute knowledge.
• Implements algorithms into software to train systems to recognize patterns and perform specific functions.
• Responsible for various phases of developing and maintaining autonomy software from requirements generation, software design and development to integration, testing, troubleshooting and debugging, and implementation.
• Review test outcomes, conducts troubleshooting, and works to debug issues.
• Develops human-machine interface scenarios, breaking missions into tasks.
• Documents interface requirements and implements human-machine interfaces.
• Leading and developing advanced AI and machine-learning capabilities for radar, communications, and electronic warfare signal-processing applications.
• Contributing to technical solutions from concept development through software integration, test, validation, and transition to fielded mission systems.
• Owning technical workstreams to develop, mature, and transition new AI-enabled signal-processing capabilities into high-impact mission applications.
• Collaborating with program, systems engineering, software, and customer teams to address evolving mission requirements.

3. Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related discipline.
• US citizenship is required for this role.

4. Required Skills:

• Experience developing machine-learning and deep-learning capabilities using one or more frameworks, including PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or Keras.
• Experience with Python including libraries such as NumPy, OpenCV, scikit-learn, Pandas, SciPy, or equivalent libraries.
• Experience applying machine learning, deep learning, or artificial intelligence to signal-processing or sensing applications, including one or more of radar, communications, electronic warfare, sonar, audio, biomedical sensing, or related domains.
• Experience contributing to the development, integration, testing, or deployment of AI-enabled capabilities in a large enterprise, government, defense, intelligence, or comparable technical organization.

5. Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, physics, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into mature, complex, mission-critical software systems.
• Experience with RF, digital signal processing, and analog signal-processing fundamentals.
• Experience with radar, communications, electronic warfare, sonar, or comparable sensing systems.
• Experience applying AI/ML to IQ/sample-level processing, detection or emitter-level characterization, sensor fusion, and/or track-level classification problems.
• Experience with multiple sensing modalities, including passive and active radio frequency, EO/IR, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and state of the art novel sensing techniques.
• Experience with model validation, reproducible experimentation, data and model versioning, automated test, and ML lifecycle practices.
• Experience preparing and presenting technical briefings for government customers.
• Experience developing technical proposals or white papers.
• Familiarity with software-defined radios.
• Experience with C++, Rust, or other compiled languages.
• Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain Top Secret.

6. Experience Requirements:

• Experience Level: Experienced Professional (as stated in the job posting).

7. Additional Job Information:

• Employment type: FullTime (Full-time).
• Work mode: The posting states the ability to work on-site at major Lockheed Martin facilities; work mode: On-site.
• Notice period: Not specified in the source text.
• Locations provided by employer: Orlando, FL; Orange County, FL; Florida, United States.
• Relocation: Possible (as stated in the posting).
• Clearance prior to start: None. Final clearance: Secret.
• US citizenship is required for this role.
• How to apply / Application instructions: Not specified in the provided source text.