Staff Embedded Systems Integration & Test Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Littleton, CO
$109,200–$192,510from the description
Jul 7, 2026
Littleton, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level systems engineering role focused on integration and test activities for the Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile program. The engineer will lead test planning, brass-board prototyping, configuration management, and verification activities at the package level, while coordinating across hardware, software, and ground support equipment teams. Suits experienced aerospace or defense engineers with a background in embedded systems integration and a current or recent Secret clearance.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Bachelor's required · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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Why we read it this way (9)
The role title is 'Staff Embedded Systems Integration & Test Engineer' but the actual requirements (5+ years, no org-wide scope) support a Senior-level classification; 'Staff' here appears to be a Lockheed Martin internal grade rather than the cross-team technical leadership band the seniority field represents.
The SOC classification is a judgement call: this is an embedded systems integration & test engineering role in aerospace/defense, which sits closest to 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) given its hardware-software integration focus. 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) is a plausible runner-up given the systems engineering and requirements-management emphasis.
Work location is not specified beyond 'onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility'; the salary ranges reference multiple states (CA, CO, MD, WA, etc.) suggesting multiple possible sites. No specific CBSA could be determined.
The clearance gate in Basic Qualifications states 'Active Secret clearance or recently held Secret clearance' with the ability to obtain Top Secret; the Security Clearance Statement and Clearance Level field both state 'Top Secret' as the requirement. Clearance is set to TopSecret accordingly.
The degree requirement is a hard gate: a Bachelor's in EE, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related STEM field appears in both Basic Qualifications and Desired Skills sections. Because it is listed under Basic Qualifications, it is treated as required.
Most skills listed under 'Desired Skills' are preferred, including brass-board prototyping, CM tools, EGSE/ESE experience, VCRM, MIL-STD-498/IEEE-828, CAD/ECAD tools, and modeling & simulation tools.
The 'technical documentation / test plans / review packages' skill is a hard gate per Basic Qualifications language ('proficiency preparing technical documentation, test plans, and review packages'). Generic soft-skill and methodology items (communication, leadership, project management) were omitted per extraction rules.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): technical documentation, brass-board/PCB prototyping, EGSE/ESE test-console environments.
Requires a Top Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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