Software Test Engineer - F35 Level 2
Lockheed Martin · Fort Worth, TX
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Jul 24, 2026
Fort Worth, TX
Jul 27, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits on the F-35 Core Processing Software test team, focused on verifying safety-critical avionics software. Day-to-day work involves analyzing requirements, writing and executing test cases, documenting test results and anomaly reports, and performing root cause analysis on failures. There is also scope to build automation utilities using C++ and Python, with the work governed by a rigorous software assurance process requiring a Secret clearance.
Mid level · Bachelor's required · Secret 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 $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109).
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 (8)
The role is primarily Software Test Engineering (writing/executing safety-critical test cases, root cause analysis, test reports, anomaly reports), which maps to 15-1253. However, the posting also calls for developing automation utilities in C++ and creating swat scripts, giving it a meaningful software-development component — hence 15-1252 as the runner-up.
No specific work location city is stated in the posting; it is described as onsite at a Lockheed Martin Aeronautics facility. The role is associated with the F-35 CPSW program, which has major sites in Fort Worth, TX and Palmdale, CA, but no city is confirmed in the text.
The degree requirement is a Bachelor's in a STEM discipline 'or above' — no equivalent-experience substitution is offered, so Bachelors is the minimum hard gate.
A Secret clearance is explicitly required ('this position requires a government security clearance … Clearance Level: Secret'). Candidates must also be US citizens.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
'Object-oriented design patterns', 'Test Driven Development', 'CI/CD Pipelines', and 'Automated Testing' all appear under the 'Desired Skills' heading and are therefore preferred, not required.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Object-oriented design patterns, Test Driven Development.
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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