Standard Job Description

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 single day we use our outstanding skills, talents and experiences to craft and build solutions to some of the world’s hardest engineering problems. Do you want to be part of a culture that inspires employees to envision the impossible, perform with excellence and build incredible products? We provide the resources, inspiration and focus—if you have the passion and courage to dream big, then we want to build a better tomorrow with you.

The Combined Orbital Operations Logistics Resiliency (COOLR) Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Satellite System Testbed team seeks an electronic engineer to maintain and upgrade the Hardware‑in‑the‑Loop (HWIL) infrastructure. The candidate will have the opportunity to gain hands‑on experience with AEHF satellite subsystems.

Additionally, In this role the candidate will collaborate closely with fellow engineers throughout both the design‑update, production and test phases. The position offers substantial career‑growth potential and provides meaningful, challenging assignments that will stretch and refine the candidate’s technical expertise

The information below includes the standard job description for this position

Researches, designs, develops, and tests a variety of electronic equipment and systems, including radar and radiation detection equipment; radio, television and other communications equipment and systems; circuitry components; analog and digital computers; and control and test equipment.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in an Electrical/Electronic Engineering or related degree from an accredited college/university
• 2+ years of professional experience in an Electrical/Electronic Engineering role
• Prior experience with digital/analog electronics (such as design, circuit analysis, etc.)
• Experience with test and measurement equipment (e.g., Digital Voltmeter, Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, Function Generators)
• Experience in troubleshooting hardware and software failures
• Experience interpreting and creating electronic schematics
• Experience with Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design
• Experience in every stage of the hardware lifecycle: concept, requirements, design, development, integration, and testing.
• Strong understanding of analog components (e.g., resistors, capacitors, MOSFETs, BJTs, diodes, and inductors)
• Knowledge of test consoles, cable designs, interface panels and custom chassis
• Strong understanding of digital components (e.g., flip flops, lookup tables, logic gates, shift registers, finite state machines, and memory hierarchies)
• Ability to work in a collaborative and team-based environment
• Active and current Secret clearance required. Thus US Citizenship is required

Desired Skills

• Experience integrating hardware such as FPGAs, DIO cards and PCBs with software
• Familiarity with digital serial protocols
• FPGA architecture and design, with applied knowledge of either the Xilinx, Intel or Microsemi FPGA devices and their associated application environments
• Experience writing custom FPGA RTL using Verilog, System Verilog or VHDL
• Having utilized Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus, or Microsemi Libero development platforms to successfully build and test an executable hardware implementation of code which they have written
• FPGA behavioral simulation experience using Vivado XSIM or a similar tool
• Experience integrating FPGA IP with custom RTL is a plus
• Experience integrating hardware such as FPGAs, DIO cards and PCBs with software
• Experience in design, update, and managing engineering drawings and documentation.
• Experience and understanding of software languages such as C/C++
• Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice​

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