Systems Engineer - Clearance Required at Lockheed Martin
Littleton, CO
$70,100–$123,625from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Littleton, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits on a production engineering team building and sustaining Cross-Domain Solution products that manage secure data flows across military networks. Day-to-day work spans hardware design and assembly, infrastructure maintenance alongside systems administrators, and supporting field deployments — including installation, integration, and customer training. The position is largely onsite, involves at least 25% travel, and requires eligibility for a Top Secret/SCI clearance.
Mid level · Palmdale-Lancaster, CA · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $100,686 (middle half $80,063–$127,228). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
This posting is internally inconsistent: the 'What We Do / The Work' section describes a production/systems integration engineer role (hardware build, datacenter installation, network configuration, site deployments, sysadmin support), while the 'Who You Are' section pivots to a software developer profile (Java/Python development, software development lifecycle). The SOC was assigned as 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) based on the dominant operational/integration duties described in the concrete work section, with 15-1252 (Software Developers) as a strong runner-up given the software development language in 'Who You Are'.
The clearance gate is layered: Basic Qualifications require the ability to obtain a Secret, with the ability to obtain a final TS/SCI; the Clearance Level field states 'Top Secret'. TopSecretSci was applied as the ceiling requirement.
The salary range quoted ($70,100–$123,625) applies specifically to California, Massachusetts, New York (excluding major metros), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington, and Washington DC. Other states may differ.
The facility is described as the 'Deer Creek facility' — likely Lockheed Martin's Deer Creek campus in Palmdale, CA (RMS). The CBSA was set accordingly, though the posting does not explicitly name a city.
Java and Python appear only in the 'Who You Are' narrative section (not under a formal requirements heading) and are framed as primary development languages for a software role that may not match the production engineer duties described elsewhere — listed as preferred given the ambiguity.
No minimum years of overall experience are stated in the posting.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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