Survivability & Nuclear Hardness Engineer (Level IV), Secret clearance jobs in United States
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Lockheed Martin · 5 months ago

Survivability & Nuclear Hardness Engineer (Level IV), Secret clearance

Lockheed Martin Space is focused on harnessing the potential of space to foster innovation and enhance security. The Survivability & Nuclear Hardness Engineer will lead and support the Specialty Engineering team, ensuring missile designs meet performance requirements in various environments and mentoring junior engineers.

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Responsibilities

Applying electrical, electronics, and physics theories to execute various tasks related to the Survivability engineering field
Ensuring that missile designs, from the component level to the system level, will meet performance requirements during and after exposure to specified environments; these environments include natural space and man-made nuclear radiation
Conducting technical planning, specification requirements derivation, test and analysis, design, planning and execution, documentation, and requirements/validation to support overall system needs and act as a technical consultant for management and customers
Joining a Survivability Engineering group and will be partnered with other authorities
Serving in a technical lead role, both independently and with others, in executing Survivability tasks and delivering results, while maintaining collaboration with other Survivability Engineers within the FBM program
Mentoring junior engineers within Survivability Engineering

Qualification

Nuclear Hardness EngineeringCircuit SimulationRadiation TestingElectrical Engineering ToolsDevice PhysicsMulti-taskingMicrosoft OfficeTeam LeadershipMentoringOrganizational Skills

Required

Proven experience in circuit simulation and modeling for design of electronic circuits, with an expertise in device physics
Experience in Man-made Nuclear and Natural Space Radiation environments, with a focus on Nuclear Hardness and Survivability engineering
To meet requirements of the program/customer, this position requires the selected employee to be a U.S. Citizen
Active Secret clearance is necessary to be considered and is the minimum level of clearance required prior to start
Candidates must have the ability to obtain (and maintain), a Top Secret security clearance for long-term employment on this program
Bachelor's Degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related engineering discipline (or equivalent) with approximately 9 years or more of professional experience

Preferred

Rad Hard By Design (RHBD) electronics design and architecture experience
Experience using electrical engineering simulation tools and software tools for performing electrical engineering and mathematical analyses (e.g., MATLAB, SPICE, PSPICE, etc.)
Experience in circuit simulation and modeling for design, worst case analysis, nuclear survivability, electrical overstress, and failure analysis of electronic circuits
Experience with electronic, electrical, electromechanical and electro-optical (EEEE) components
Experience with radiation testing (e.g. TID, SEE, nDD, prompt dose rate, etc) and test facilities ( e.g. TAMU, Brookhaven, West Coast Facility, etc)
Experience with Piece-part radiation testing and radiation effects on piece-parts performance and reliability
Radiation software tools (e.g., PUFF-TFT, MCNP, CEPXS, NOVICE, Srim/Trim, Novice/Geant4, Creme96, Crememc, Shieldose, Spenvis, Omere, Ap8/Ae8, and Ap9/Ae9)
Missile or space segment design and/or test experience with one or more subsystems or fields outside of Systems Engineering
Experience supporting anomaly resolution teams
Enthusiastic learner and willingness to be an apprentice to senior experts in the NH&S discipline
Ability to lead multi-functional teams and lead multiple teams to communicate and coordinate work as one team with common goals
Organized and able to effectively multi-task to accomplish this fast paced job
Computer skills including Microsoft Office and SharePoint
Active Top Secret security clearance

Benefits

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
Holidays

Company

Lockheed Martin

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Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that specializes in advanced technology systems, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Lockheed Martin.

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$6.06B
Key Investors
Air Force Research Laboratory
2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $3B
2025-08-28Post Ipo Debt· $3B
2023-11-13Grant· $33.7M

Leadership Team

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Jim Taiclet
Chairman, President & CEO
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Craig Martell
Chief Technology Officer
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