Description:What We're Doing
At Lockheed Martin, we're driving the next generation of defense capabilities through innovation, analysis, and mission-focused design. Within our Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS) business area, the Operations Analysis (OA) team plays a critical role in shaping our product strategy and supporting our warfighters’ evolving needs. We work directly with internal stakeholders and external customers to evaluate and inform design decisions, operational concepts, and investment priorities through analytical rigor and simulation-based insights.
The Work
In this role, you’ll lead high-impact studies and shape key decisions across programs and future concept developments. Your analysis will inform everything from system design to operational effectiveness in mission-level contexts.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead study teams to perform modeling, simulation, and analysis of military systems.
Formulate and execute analysis and study plans.
Collaborate with stakeholders to define objectives and refine study direction.
Conduct research on military systems performance, operations, and tactics.
Model operational scenarios and perform digital simulation trades.
Analyze simulation results and quantify Measures-of-Effectiveness (MOEs).
Translate technical findings into actionable insights for senior decision-makers.
Contribute to cross-business area activities such as digital simulations, virtual reconstructions, and wargames.
Represent OA as a technical leader across programs, captures, and technology planning efforts.
Please note:
This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) Top Secret / SCI security clearance.
This position is based out of Manassas, VA.
Who We Are
We are a strategic analysis team at Lockheed Martin RMS committed to bridging technical innovation with operational relevance. Our analysts are engineers, data scientists, and mission experts who value integrity, teamwork, and a forward-looking mindset. We thrive in ambiguity and embrace complex challenges as opportunities to make a difference.
Who You Are
You’re a problem solver, a systems thinker, and a communicator. You lead with insight and curiosity and bring both technical acumen and mission awareness to every challenge. You enjoy working across disciplines and pushing the limits of what's possible with digital tools and data.
Why Join Us
Lockheed Martin offers you the chance to build something that matters. You’ll work on challenging, mission-critical problems with a team that supports your growth. Our flexible environment, robust benefits, and commitment to innovation make Lockheed Martin a place where you can thrive, contribute, and define the future.
Apply today and help us deliver the insights that shape tomorrow's missions.
Lockheed Martin – Your Mission is Ours.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college in Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, or other degree a with a related discipline or application of data analysis to technical solutions, with 9 years of professional experience; or 7 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
- Project management, leadership, & Modeling & Simulation (M&S) experience.
- Knowledge of military operations, tactics, & organization
- Ability to obtain/maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) TS/SCI Clearance.
Desired Skills:
- Experience with Advanced Framework for Simulation Integration and Modeling (AFSIM), ExtendSim, Command Professional Edition (PE) and/or Cameo
- Advanced Technical Degree
- Battle Management, Command and Control (C2), and/or related Military experience
- Experience with C++, Python & Git
- Expertise in computer-based analytical tools & office applications (data analysis)
- Knowledge of major combat simulations & models, analytical methods, sensors & weapon systems and/or cross-domain operational effects
- Experience with working in & leading analysis teams
- Familiarity with Agile practices & execution
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: TS/SCI
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: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.
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
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: RMS
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Systems Engineering: Models and Simulations
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
