Standard Job Description

Lockheed Martin’s Red Team is seeking an experienced Cyber Test Exploitation professional. If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges and applying ethical hacking techniques to protect cutting‑edge military technology, this role offers the chance to put your skills to work for the corporation, our customers, and the warfighter.

What You Will Be Doing:

In this role, you will lead and execute advanced exploitation and penetration‑testing initiatives, assess potential attack vectors, and develop mitigations that enhance Lockheed Martin’s overall security posture. Key responsibilities will include the following:

• Leading and conducting exploitation and penetration testing, research, and development across Lockheed Martin enterprises, products, programs, and technologies
• Identifying potential exploitation or malicious attack vectors and implementing mitigations to strengthen our security posture
• Applying a broad range of standard and custom testing tactics, techniques, and procedures to uncover security weaknesses, assess attack surfaces, and recommend remediation
• Collaborating with senior technical partners on critical business and information‑security matters, delivering actionable results
• Coordinating penetration‑testing and red‑teaming activities across multiple organizations to support enterprise‑wide initiatives
• Influencing security practices for Lockheed Martin environments, contracts, and business units

Who You Are: 

• A technically proficient cyber professional with a solid background in penetration testing and the ability to contribute immediately to engagements.
• Strong analytical and critical‑thinking skills with a proven track record of problem solving and follow‑through.
• Capable of multitasking effectively in a fast‑paced environment.
• Self‑starter and team player who quickly masters new concepts under senior guidance.
• Creative, collaborative, and mission‑focused, with a positive attitude toward achieving strategic objectives. 

Further Information About This Opportunity:

This is a hybrid role with part-time telecommuting; proximity to one of the listed Lockheed Martin facilities (Fort Worth TX, Orlando FL, or Bethesda MD) is preferred, though other major sites may be considered. US citizenship is required, with eligibility for Secret clearance or higher 

Conducts exploitation testing to improve integrity and security of enterprise and weapon system environments. Performs penetration testing and related activities across a wide variety of platforms and technologies using advanced techniques and methodologies, such as embedded hardware, electronic warfare, radio frequency, etc. Utilizes domain knowledge to develop systems and exploitation methods for use in cyber and adjacent-field missions. Solves extremely challenging and complex problems related to attack vectors and mitigations.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience with hands-on-keyboard penetration testing, including web applications and its various components (injection, XSS, validation, session mgmt, web services, hosting, web traffic analysis, etc) 
• Scripting experience (Python, Perl, Ruby, Bash, Grep/Sed/Awk, etc) including work on offensive cyber tools
• Networking knowledge (networking essentials, data flows, architecture, protocols, traffic, wireless, etc.)
• Experience leveraging AI in offensive operations, against both traditional and AI systems, models, and guardrails
• Experience evaluating the security posture of AI-enabled systems and producing threat model reports that include AI specific attack surfaces
• Experience with engineering LLM-driven exploit generation pipelines and integrating them with existing red team frameworks
• Understanding of AI safety concepts (guardrails, alignment, output filtering) and how they can be bypassed or reinforced in offensive scenarios
• US citizenship is required to start, with eligibility for Secret Clearance or higher
• Ability to travel (20%)

Desired Skills

• Certifications (OSCP, OSCE, OSEP, OSED, CEH, CEPT, GIAC {Web, wireless, forensics, mobile, exploit researcher}) 
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure
• Knowledge of adversarial activities in cyberspace with an understanding of intrusion set tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) with the ability to emulate these TTP to assess vulnerability and risk
• Thorough understanding of Active Directory and how to test against it and/or use it to your advantage
• Familiarity with Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) activity; Offensive hacker mindset
• Ability to lead others and deliver results (brief leadership, customers, etc.).
• Effective documentation and verbal communication skills in customer-facing roles
• Active Secret clearance or higher