Job ID: 703515BR Date posted: Dec. 03, 2025
Description:Protecting what matters most is the mission that matters most.

The modern missile-threat landscape is characterized by increasing complexity and rapid evolution, making it essential to adopt a multifaceted defense approach.
At Lockheed Martin, we recognize the critical importance of developing and integrating advanced solutions to protect people and nations worldwide.
Detecting an enemy missile launch, identifying its intended target, calculating its precise trajectory, launching an interceptor, and guiding it to successfully destroy the threat in mid-air is an extraordinarily complex and challenging task. It demands a seamless integration of advanced technologies, sophisticated systems, and highly skilled personnel.

The Lockheed Martin Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) team is seeking an experienced Systems Engineering Associate Manager to be part of the leadership team in developing missile defense technology that could forever change our ability to deter and respond to adversity.

As the Booster Systems Engineer Associate Manager you will:
• Lead and provide direction for a team of systems engineers
• Conduct technical planning and effectively communicate interdependencies to formulate integrated plans
• Conduct regularly occurring status meetings and identify solutions to stay on schedule
• Track earned value metrics (EVM) and provide course correction as required
• Provide management of MBSE, requirement derivation, interface definition, and verification planning
• Perform systems/hardware/software integration
• Develop effective presentations that thoughtfully communicate information to the customer at major design reviews and status meetings
• Identify personnel needs, post requisitions, interview, hire, and train

The ideal candidate will have both good interpersonal skills and leadership abilities as well as a solid understanding of requirements development and verification planning.

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This position is in Rocket City USA, one of the greatest places to work: Huntsville, AL

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Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package.
Basic Qualifications:
• Knowledge and experience applying Systems Engineering to a development program and one or more of the below listed Systems Integration functions:
1. Technical leadership experience of a multidisciplinary team
2. Developing an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
3. Developing Concepts of Operation (CONOPs) and/or Cameo Activity Diagrams
4. Conducting requirements derivation and decomposition
5. Conducting requirement verification
6. Managing requirements and verification with DOORS software
7. Experience conducting systems integration activities
8. Defining electrical and mechanical interfaces
9. Test planning and execution with an understanding of all the interdependencies
10. Developing presentations that thoughtfully and effectively communicate information to upper management and the customer
• Active or Current Secret clearance required; US Citizenship
Desired Skills:
• Experience ensuring the physical and functional compatibility of hardware/software products throughout the full lifecycle of the program
• Experience conducting mechanical, electrical, and/or logical compatibility analyses
• Experience interacting with hardware and software developers to ensure mission requirements are understood and satisfied
• Experience leading teams/projects with proven results
• Experience working with Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Customer
• Experience negotiating plans with external dependencies
• Experience executing on a challenging schedule
• Understanding of Model-Based Systems Engineering practices and tools
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: 9x80 every other Friday off
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: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Systems Engineering: Other
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First