Description: Role Overview
As a Systems Integration & Test Engineer, you will plan and execute testing for complex systems and subsystems. You'll turn technical requirements into practical test approaches, work hands-on with hardware, and help ensure systems perform as expected-from early integration through final validation.
Key Duties / Responsibilities
Create and maintain test plans, procedures, and documentation
Translate requirements into clear, executable test strategies
Support system integration by defining specifications and resolving interface issues
Lead and support test execution, including setup, scheduling, and reporting
Analyze results and document system performance
Identify issues, write discrepancy reports, and support resolution
Perform regression testing to confirm fixes
Coordinate testing activities across teams and programs
Work directly with hardware in lab and integration environments
Work Environment
Hands-on role in labs, test facilities, and integration sites
Team-based environment with close collaboration across engineering groups
Fast-paced work tied to program milestones and test schedules
May require flexibility in hours during key testing periods
Why You'll Love This Role
Work on real systems that go beyond the lab-spacecraft, defense platforms, and more
See your work move from concept to tested system
Build deep, hands-on expertise in integration and test engineering
Collaborate with experienced engineers on meaningful technical challenges
About Lockheed Martin Space
Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more - we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.
At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We're creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We're erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We're advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we're reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.
Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.
Company Mission & Program Overview
Lockheed Martin Space develops advanced technologies that support national security and expand what's possible in space. This role contributes directly to ensuring those systems are tested, integrated, and mission-ready.
Why LM
Work on high-impact programs with real-world outcomes
Access to advanced tools, labs, and technologies
Opportunities to grow technical depth and broaden system-level experience
Collaborative culture focused on solving complex engineering challenges
Basic Qualifications:
Candidates must meet all of the following:
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field such as Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hands-on experience with system or subsystem testing
Experience using radio frequency (RF) test equipment and hardware
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance (U.S. citizenship required)
Willingness to support testing needs that may include extended hours or alternate shifts
Desired Skills:
These are not required but will strengthen your application:
1-2+ years of related professional experience
Certified Test Conductor (CTC) or similar certification
Experience with test automation or integration of lab, ground, or flight hardware
Knowledge of RF components (e.g., antennas, receivers, amplifiers)
Experience integrating or troubleshooting commercial or government off-the-shelf components (COTS/GOTS)
Familiarity with test instrumentation, data collection, and control systems
Background in aerospace, defense, or similar system-level testing environments
Comfortable working in collaborative teams and adapting to changing priorities
Ability to travel occasionally, if needed
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: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: SPACE
Relocation Available: No
Career Area: Test Engineering
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
