Computer Engineer (Cyber) - Early Career
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth, Texas
Responsibilities
Description:By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics is seeking a full-time Early Career Computer Engineer, with a focus in Cyber. In this role, penetration test aircraft and aviation support systems for the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Cyber Range (ACR). The candidate will be responsible for performing a wide array of cyber security assessments and testing to evaluate the security posture of embedded aviation platforms, identify vulnerabilities, develop exploits, and recommend mitigations. The successful candidate will have experience and/or knowledge of penetration testing or a related cybersecurity role, moderate to advanced programming experience, demonstrated problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, and excellent written and oral communication.
Must be a US Citizen. This position will require that you can qualify for a government security clearance. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering. Computer Security, Information Technology or other related field.
• Ability to perform penetration testing or a adversarial testing of embedded systems.
• Proficiency with programming languages for multiple domains including shell scripting, high-level languages, and assembly.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
Desired Skills:
• Experience with the real-time embedded systems (avionics systems or similar) Architecture, Operating Systems and Networking Fundamentals.
• Experience with software, hardware, embedded networks, and/or radio frequency analysis/reverse engineering as applied to avionics platforms.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work in a dynamic team environment.
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years
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: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
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: 4 yr and up College
Business Unit: AERONAUTICS COMPANY
Relocation Available: Yes
Career Area: Cyber Security
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
About
Lockheed Martin is the leader of cyber security defense, cyber operations and sensitive data protection. We employ the world's best cyber minds from diverse fields – people who are passionate about and empowered by our customers' missions. Lockheed Martin's best-in-cyber teams are experts in thinking like the enemy – identifying adversary activity and anticipating advanced persistent threats to strengthen platform defenses, inside and out of our networks.
Our Commitment to Sustainability: We foster innovation, integrity and security to preserve the environment, strengthen diverse communities and propel growth.
Here, the possibilities are endless because we offer:
- Full Time
 - Level: Entry, Mid, Senior
 - Travel: Minimal, dependent on role
 
Qualifications
What does a successful Cyber Security employee at Lockheed Martin look like?
Check out the info below to see if you have what it takes.
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                            Analytical
                            
Advancing technologies and out of the box thinking that enable cyber operations, resulting in inventing solutions that will keep us safe today and into the future.
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                            Creative
                            
Natural curiosity is an absolutely essential trait. Curiosity leads to continual learning which allows you to stay one step ahead of the threat.
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                            Curious
                            
The ability to anticipate hackers’ intent and disrupt their next move is key. Seeking out new weaknesses before they become weaknesses. Proactively learning and updating systems is how we stay ahead of the threat.
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                            Proactive
                            
We have hard problems to solve and we look for people who thrive at solving them, who can see problems from both the defensive and offensive sides.
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                            Problem Solver
                            
Whatever you know today could be different tomorrow as security is constantly changing. Possessing strong technical skills and intellectual depth along with a willingness to continually learn from others is important to adapt to and address the Advanced Persistent Threat.
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                            Technologically savvy
                            
The ability to analyze and disseminate threat intelligence. The ability to analyze and address the root cause, learn from the attack and anticipate the hacker’s next move.
 
Quote
“Cyber is the most exciting career field! Every day, there's new cyber threat information that we leverage to shape our courses of action when identifying, assessing, developing, integrating, and continuously evaluating the effectiveness of defensive measures.”
Dr. Dawn B., Senior Fellow
Benefits
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Healthcare
Medical, Dental and Vision coverage is available for employees who opt-in.
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401(k)/Retirement Plans
Our 401(k) plan features generous matching and company contributions.
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Professional Development
We support our employees through mentoring, internal & external educational programs, networking, skills enhancement and career-building programs, funding for cyber certifications.
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Maternity and Paternity Leave
Our generous parental leave policies support your journey into parenthood. When you return to work, our facilities offer mother's rooms to support your transition and work/life balance.
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Paid Time Off
We offer PTO, paid holidays and paid time off for jury duty and military obligations.
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Flex-time
Depending on the position, we offer flexible work schedules.
 
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