Systems Engineering Senior Manager
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania & Additional Locations
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; Littleton, Colorado; Sunnyvale, California
Job Responsibilities
Job ID: 728972BR Date posted: May. 27, 2026
Description:Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.
At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.
Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.
Is your forte technical leadership? Does your passion include leading multidisciplinary engineering teams to execute design efforts in new and exciting ways? Are you a motivated to make a difference in driving a comprehensive Systems Engineering strategy for modernization of the Space domain?
As the Systems Engineering Senior Manager you will:
Perform technical planning, systems integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and efficiency analyses for total systems—analyses are performed at all levels of total systems product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.
Ensure the logical and detailed conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams responsible for advancing the system engineering practices at Space
• Support central and program-led Model-Based Systems Engineering initiatives including representing Space on the Systems Engineering and Architecture (SE&A) Functional Leadership Team (FLT) and on the Integration, Test, and Evaluation (IT&E) FLT
• 1LMx Functional Ownership for Systems Engineering products including but not limited to: communications with programs, LOBs, CEs, Organizational Change Mgmt (OCM), Space 1LMx Product Teams, Space 1LMx CE, and SE leadership
• Oversee advanced engineering development of new processes, tools, and training, including 1LMx integration
• Liaison with LM Corporate and Space 1LMx in an effort to co-develop and mature existing offerings to programs with the goal of reducing program lifecycle to include: 1LMx, Functional Excellence, Functional Leadership Teams (FLTs), Factories, and Staffing
• Work closely with IT to make sure Space SE budget and tools stay on cost while continuing to meet the needs of programs operating at all classification levels
• Perform as E&Ts Chief Data Steward
• Engage with Mission Engineering, Model Based Acquisition and MOSA initiatives in and outside Lockheed Martin to ensure the long-term viability of our product offerings and continued partnership with our customers
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Full development lifecycle experience including delivery of HW and/or SW
• Proven ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams while maintaining an open, inclusive mindset, and to make decisive, data-driven decisions that keep projects on schedule and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Demonstrated project management/leadership (personnel, cost/schedule, subcontracts and/or planning) and mentoring
• Applying SysML across the Systems Engineering program phases and extending the SysML language with profiles and domain-specific language constructs
• Developing inventive approaches to implementing MBSE on small and large scale programs
• Experience with modern SysML tools to include modifying and developing MBSE tools helpers to improve MBSE application
• Tailoring MBSE approaches to take advantage of various systems model management tools and techniques
• Owning the development of modeling approaches as well as planning and tailoring execution and analysis on large programs
• Experience as a coded leader
• Working knowledge of cost estimation techniques to support development and evaluation of Basis of Estimates (BOEs) for proposal activities
• Candidates must hold an active U.S. Secret security clearance prior to start date.
Desired Skills:
• Demonstrated expertise in systems engineering sub-disciplines to include requirements development, verification processes, interface management, risk and opportunity management, critical skills assessment, engineering metrics
• Broad experience of Systems Engineering life Cycle process and tools
• Experience with cost estimating to support proposal basis of estimate (BOE) development
• Experience as a Systems Engineering functional manager of managers
• Experience working autonomously and efficiently across organizational and product interfaces in a collaborative, multi-task environment
• Ability to operate in a fast paced and dynamic multi-disciplinary environment at component, subsystem, and system levels
• Knowledge in agile development and experience with agile tools
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience with Cameo/MagicDraw/Rhapsody
• Experience with IBM DOORS, DOORS Next
• Experience with other MBSE TOOLS (E.g., Model Center)
• OCSMP Systems Modeling Certification
• Experience with OOSEM
• Experience with UAF
• Integrating analysis tools via Model Center
• Recognized as an authority in systems thinking techniques with the demonstrated ability to apply them to a wide range of sophisticated problems and train others in their application
• Missile or space segment design and test experience with one or more subsystems or fields outside of Systems Engineering
• Ability to lead multi-functional teams and lead multiple teams to communicate and coordinate work as one team with common goals
• Master’s Degree in Systems Engineering, INCOSE Certification, or relevant Graduate Certificate
• Active or Current Top Secret Security Clearance
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Top 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
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 $151,200 - $266,570. 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 $173,900 - $301,415. 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: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Systems Engineering: Other
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
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Description:Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.
At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.
Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.
Is your forte technical leadership? Does your passion include leading multidisciplinary engineering teams to execute design efforts in new and exciting ways? Are you a motivated to make a difference in driving a comprehensive Systems Engineering strategy for modernization of the Space domain?
As the Systems Engineering Senior Manager you will:
Perform technical planning, systems integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and efficiency analyses for total systems—analyses are performed at all levels of total systems product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.
Ensure the logical and detailed conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams responsible for advancing the system engineering practices at Space
• Support central and program-led Model-Based Systems Engineering initiatives including representing Space on the Systems Engineering and Architecture (SE&A) Functional Leadership Team (FLT) and on the Integration, Test, and Evaluation (IT&E) FLT
• 1LMx Functional Ownership for Systems Engineering products including but not limited to: communications with programs, LOBs, CEs, Organizational Change Mgmt (OCM), Space 1LMx Product Teams, Space 1LMx CE, and SE leadership
• Oversee advanced engineering development of new processes, tools, and training, including 1LMx integration
• Liaison with LM Corporate and Space 1LMx in an effort to co-develop and mature existing offerings to programs with the goal of reducing program lifecycle to include: 1LMx, Functional Excellence, Functional Leadership Teams (FLTs), Factories, and Staffing
• Work closely with IT to make sure Space SE budget and tools stay on cost while continuing to meet the needs of programs operating at all classification levels
• Perform as E&Ts Chief Data Steward
• Engage with Mission Engineering, Model Based Acquisition and MOSA initiatives in and outside Lockheed Martin to ensure the long-term viability of our product offerings and continued partnership with our customers
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Full development lifecycle experience including delivery of HW and/or SW
• Proven ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams while maintaining an open, inclusive mindset, and to make decisive, data-driven decisions that keep projects on schedule and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Demonstrated project management/leadership (personnel, cost/schedule, subcontracts and/or planning) and mentoring
• Applying SysML across the Systems Engineering program phases and extending the SysML language with profiles and domain-specific language constructs
• Developing inventive approaches to implementing MBSE on small and large scale programs
• Experience with modern SysML tools to include modifying and developing MBSE tools helpers to improve MBSE application
• Tailoring MBSE approaches to take advantage of various systems model management tools and techniques
• Owning the development of modeling approaches as well as planning and tailoring execution and analysis on large programs
• Experience as a coded leader
• Working knowledge of cost estimation techniques to support development and evaluation of Basis of Estimates (BOEs) for proposal activities
• Candidates must hold an active U.S. Secret security clearance prior to start date.
Desired Skills:
• Demonstrated expertise in systems engineering sub-disciplines to include requirements development, verification processes, interface management, risk and opportunity management, critical skills assessment, engineering metrics
• Broad experience of Systems Engineering life Cycle process and tools
• Experience with cost estimating to support proposal basis of estimate (BOE) development
• Experience as a Systems Engineering functional manager of managers
• Experience working autonomously and efficiently across organizational and product interfaces in a collaborative, multi-task environment
• Ability to operate in a fast paced and dynamic multi-disciplinary environment at component, subsystem, and system levels
• Knowledge in agile development and experience with agile tools
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience with Cameo/MagicDraw/Rhapsody
• Experience with IBM DOORS, DOORS Next
• Experience with other MBSE TOOLS (E.g., Model Center)
• OCSMP Systems Modeling Certification
• Experience with OOSEM
• Experience with UAF
• Integrating analysis tools via Model Center
• Recognized as an authority in systems thinking techniques with the demonstrated ability to apply them to a wide range of sophisticated problems and train others in their application
• Missile or space segment design and test experience with one or more subsystems or fields outside of Systems Engineering
• Ability to lead multi-functional teams and lead multiple teams to communicate and coordinate work as one team with common goals
• Master’s Degree in Systems Engineering, INCOSE Certification, or relevant Graduate Certificate
• Active or Current Top Secret Security Clearance
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Top 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
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 $151,200 - $266,570. 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 $173,900 - $301,415. 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: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Systems Engineering: Other
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
About
At Lockheed Martin, we apply our passion for purposeful innovation to keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges.
Pioneering Defense Technology: From aerospace to outer space to cyber space, you can innovate mission solutions alongside the best minds in the business.
United By Culture: Excellence, integrity, and collaboration define us. We accelerate change and embrace one another’s perspectives to win for our customers.
Real Impact, Real Growth: Grow your career and skills for life. Our wide array of opportunities and technology-driven learning programs enable your development and agility.
Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life: Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits and flexible schedules designed so you thrive — at work and beyond.
Empowered to Be Your Best: Use your strengths to make a difference in the lives of one another, our customers, our communities, and our planet.
Here, the possibilities are endless because we offer:
- Flexible Schedules, dependent on role
- Levels: Student, Entry, Mid, Senior, Management
- Locations: Nationwide & OCONUS Positions
Qualifications
See what it takes to be a successful Lockheed Martin employee.
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Collaborative
There is no innovation without imagination. You bring new, different and exciting ideas to the table every day. You are committed to the success of your team.
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Curious
The ability to explore and drive new ideas. You think innovatively to come up with creative solutions to complex challenges.
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Goal-oriented
From planning and organizing to decision making, goal orientation produces impactful results. You set goals and strive to make things happen quickly and efficiently.
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Proactive
The ability to anticipate, plan and prepare for what lies ahead. You act rather than react to potential situations.
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Problem Solver
You work to tackle tough problems with complex solutions.
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Strategic
You observe, reflect and analyze processes to make more informed decisions.
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“Before I came to Lockheed Martin, I never thought I’d get these opportunities. The benefits available and the company’s value culture make it an incredibly supportive place to work, and I’m grateful to work somewhere that wants me to succeed. I hope to have a long career here making an impact, and I know I’ll be supported in doing that every step of the way.”
Ryan J., Enterprise Operations
Benefits
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Healthcare
Medical, Dental and Vision coverage is available for employees who opt-in.
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401(k)/Retirement Plans
Our 401(k) plan features generous matching and company contributions.
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Professional Development
We support our employees through mentoring, internal & external educational programs, networking, skills enhancement and career-building programs.
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Maternity and Paternity Leave
Our generous parental leave policies support your journey into parenthood. When you return to work, our facilities offer mother's rooms to support your transition and work/life balance.
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Paid Time Off
We offer PTO, paid holidays and paid time off for jury duty and military obligations.
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Flex-time
Depending on the position, we offer flexible work schedules.