Systems Engineer Staff (ADP Skunk Works) - Level 4 at Lockheed Martin
Marietta, GA
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Jul 10, 2026
Marietta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level systems engineering role supporting an advanced aerospace development program, based onsite in Marietta, GA with up to 25% domestic travel. Day-to-day work spans requirements management, architecture evaluation, risk tracking, and airworthiness, alongside running technical trade studies and developing verification and validation plans. The role also carries control account ownership, including earned value management and coordination across subcontracts, finance, and program management. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable bridging technical and programmatic responsibilities on complex, high-security programs.
Senior level · Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA · Bachelor's required · 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 (8)
This is an aerospace/defense systems engineering role at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works (Aeronautics), not a conventional IT/software occupation. No SOC code in the allowed list cleanly covers Systems Engineering as practiced in aerospace; 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is the closest available code, with 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) as a secondary candidate. Both are imperfect fits — the role is fundamentally a hardware/systems engineering discipline, not a computer occupation.
The title 'Systems Engineer Staff – Level 4' uses 'Staff' as an internal Lockheed Martin grade designation, not the industry-standard Staff engineer band. The actual scope (managing control accounts, supporting a product line, up to 25% travel) is consistent with a Senior-level role rather than a cross-team Staff technical leader.
EVMS and Control Account Management (CAM) are listed as a single required qualification; they are treated here as interchangeable alternatives for the same gate.
Model-Based Systems Engineering tools (Cameo, Rhapsody, etc.) appear under Desired Skills and are marked preferred accordingly.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
The role requires an active Secret clearance to start and US citizenship; it is onsite full-time in Marietta, GA (Atlanta metro).
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): systems engineering, requirements management, risk management, proposal management.
Requires a 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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