Description: You will be the Electrical Design Engineer for Lockheed Martin’s Chelmsford, MA campus. Our team drives cutting edge digital and FPGA designs, hands on lab testing, and product development for high performance, size weight power critical missile and fire control systems.
What You Will Be Doing
As the Electrical Design Engineer you will create and verify innovative digital hardware solutions that meet demanding system requirements. You will collaborate with RF, test, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers to deliver robust multi function modules and wireless datalink communications. Your responsibilities will include:
• Developing digital schematics, RTL code, and HDL implementations for complex modules.
• Selecting devices, designing supporting circuitry, and performing verification through simulation and hardware testing.
• Writing and maintaining design requirements documents and architecture specifications.
• Setting up and leading peer reviews to evaluate digital designs and ensure compliance with standards.
• Debugging hardware issues in the lab using state of the art test equipment and analysis tools.
• Contributing to high fidelity simulation environments and creating test benches for validation.
• Coordinating with cross functional groups (RF, mechanical, test, manufacturing) to integrate and validate designs.
• Documenting design decisions, test results, and lessons learned for knowledge sharing.
• Supporting continuous learning initiatives and mentoring junior team members when needed.
Why Join Us
We are looking for a collaborative, growth mindset engineer who thrives on solving challenging digital design problems. The ideal candidate brings strong circuit design expertise, familiarity with FPGA/HDL workflows, and a passion for hands on debugging. At Lockheed Martin you’ll work alongside industry leading digital and microwave experts, enjoy a supportive environment that benefits from flexible work schedules, comprehensive benefits, and clear career advancement pathways. If you are eager to think big, innovate relentlessly, and help shape next generation missile and fire control technologies, we encourage you to apply and help us build a better tomorrow.
We offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security, Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.
Further Information About This Opportunity:
This position is in Chelmsford. Discover more about our Chelmsford, Massachusetts location.
MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN - This position is located at a facility that requires special access. The selected candidate must be able to obtain a secret clearance. A company-sponsored Interim Secret is required to start.
Basic Qualifications:
-A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with at least 5 years of professional experience.
-Digital design experience developing CCA's, PCB's using schematic capture and signal integrity analysis tools.
-Knowledge of CCA, PCB layout and routing best practices for high speed interfaces.
-Digital designs using industry protocols such as USB, UART, SPI, I2C, JESD204B interfaces to DAC's and ADC's.
-Ability to debug hardware and firmware issues in the lab using various test equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and signal generators.
-The ability to work independently on digital development tasks and seek out information to accomplish the tasks.
-The ability to follow our established LM hardware development best practices and design assurance process is required.
-Experience documenting moderately complex engineering designs is required.
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
-Strong organizational skills are required.
-The ability to work effectively in a team environment and the ability to multi-task are required.
-Candidate must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance and have the ability to be granted an interim secret prior to start.
Desired Skills:
-A BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with 9 years of professional experience is preferred.
-Ability to create schematics using tools such as Cadence ORCAD or Siemens Xpedition.
- Ability to perform signal integrity analysis using tools such as Siemens Hyperlynx.
-Prior experience developing and working with serial interfaces such as SPI, I2C, RS422, JESD204B is desired.
-Prior experience with DDR SDRAM interfaces and signal integrity analysis.
-Worked with development boards from AMD/Xilinx, Microsemi or Intel.
-Some FPGA design skills using software tools such as Xilinx Vivado, Microsemi Libero or Intel Quartus.
-Worked with development boards from Xilinx, Microsemi or Intel.
-Demonstrated experience documenting complex engineering designs is desired.
-Prior engineering experience within the Aerospace, Aeronautics, Defense, Space, Automotive, or Electronics Sectors is desired.
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret
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
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California, Massachusetts, and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $104,500 - $184,115. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California, Massachusetts, and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $104,500 - $184,115. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $120,100 - $208,150. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
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: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: MISSILES AND FIRE CONTROL
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Electrical Engineering
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
