Senior Research Scientist - Space Based Early Warning Applications

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Job description

Job ID: 573860BR

Date posted: Oct. 25, 2021

Locations: Boulder, Colorado
COVID-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities. With employee health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Lockheed Martin is taking action to address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we meet our commitments to national security.

As directed by Executive Order 14042: Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, all current and newly hired employees, in the United States, are required to be fully vaccinated by January 18, 2022.
Description:The coolest jobs on this planet... or any other... are with Lockheed Martin Space.
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 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.

Our team at Lockheed Martin Space is looking for a motivated Research Scientist to join our team working on the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) Mission Data Processing Applications Provider (MDPAP) effort and other Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) mission processing development efforts.

• As a member of a high-performing team you must be passionate about your trade, focused on mission system quality, and supportive of timely delivery of capabilities.
• You will utilize an applied mathematics or algorithm development background to develop new mission processing applications and work with legacy code utilized in other applications.

This position is in beautiful Boulder, Colorado at our offices which have a collaborative and modern agile workspace.

Typically has 5 - 10 years of professional experience.

To promote the sharing of ideas, Lockheed Martin fosters an inclusive work environment that encourages differences and big-picture thinking.

Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually. Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy:
• Medical
• Dental
• 401k
• Paid time off
• Work/life balance
• Career development
• Mentorship opportunities
• Rewards & recognition

Learn more about Lockheed Martin's competitive and comprehensive benefits package.
Basic Qualifications:
- Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) field from an accredited institution.
- Proficiency with one or more of the following software languages: Java, C++, C, Python, and Matlab
- Must have strong teamwork skills.
- Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.
Desired Skills:
- Active secret clearance
- Master's degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) field from an accredited institution
- Applied mathematics or algorithm development experience
- Experience working with data structures
- Strong experience in software design and development.
- Linux OS background/Experience developing in a Linux environment
- Experience developing maintainable code as well as performing unit, integration, and regression testing.
- Mission Data Processing Experience
- Familiarity with tracking &/or signal processing algorithms
- Experience developing, deploying, and supporting AWS based systems.
- Demonstrated understanding of agile development within a scrum team.
- Experience with containerization tools like Docker
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: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.

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: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week

Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: Top Secret

Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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: Possible

Career Area: Scientist

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First