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Electro-Optical Systems Engineer Senior

Lockheed Martin

Louisville, COFull-time$110–205K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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Compensation
$110–205K/yr
Location
Louisville, CO
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Lockheed Martin Space seeks a Senior Electro-Optical Systems Engineer to join its Optical Systems Engineering team and Systems Engineering and Integration Team. The role drives requirements and verification across system design reviews and the program lifecycle, from preliminary design through deployment. It coordinates subsystem specifications, requirements, verification materials, interfaces, and engineering documents among system, assembly, subcontractor, customer, and management teams.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Team LeadershipSystems EngineeringRequirements EngineeringRequirements ManagementVerification and ValidationTest PlanningICD Production and MaintenanceSystems ArchitectureInterface ControlRequirements TraceabilityCommunicationTechnical DocumentationTechnical PresentationsCollaborationInfluence Without AuthoritySystems AnalysisSpace-Based Electro-Optical Payload SystemsElectro-Optical SystemsEO/IR SystemsRF SystemsSensor SystemsLaser SystemsSpacecraft SystemsGround SystemsElectronicsFPGAElectro-Optical Sensor SystemsTest Procedure DevelopmentVerification MethodologiesIBM DOORSVerification Evidence EvaluationDesign Review ExperienceAnalytical SkillsAttention to DetailClass C Development

Qualifications

Complex Team Leadership ExperienceSystems Engineering ExperienceRequirements and Verification ExperienceICD Production Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Standard Job Description

Lockheed Martin Space is seeking an Electro-Optical Systems Engineer to join the Optical Systems Engineering team! We are looking for a highly motivated Electro-Optical Systems Engineer to become a member of the Systems Engineering and Integration Team (SEIT) and drive requirements and verification through all system design reviews to sell-off. You will be responsible for end‑to‑end development, maintenance, and governance of the requirements for Electro-Optical designs across the program lifecycle, from preliminary design through deployment. As part of the systems group you will assist with management of program subsystem, unit, and component specifications, requirements and verification material, interface documents, and related engineering documents. This will involve being a point of coordination between the system teams, higher level assembly teams in the larger program, sub-contractor teams, customer teams, and management.

Your responsibilities in this role will include the following:

  • Being a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team for the full product lifecycle.

  • Collaborate with engineers, program managers, and subject‑matter experts to develop, analyze, and verify subsystem level requirements and interfaces and document & manage accordingly.

  • Oversee technical execution of component needs as well as drive cross-functional groups to deliver solutions to meet subsystem and customer requirements.

  • Coordinate with engineering to execute verification analyses and tests.

  • Participate in subsystem engineering, analysis, and integration activities,

  • Organize/coordinate/develop subsystem compliance objective evidence creation and documentation.

  • Support organization and coordination of subsystem design reviews.

Basic Qualifications

  • Experienced leading teams with complex, competing priorities maximizing success across multiple objectives and constraints

  • Proficiency in Systems Engineering

  • Experience with requirements and verification (including requirement engineering, requirements management, verification and validation, test planning)

  • Producing and maintaining ICDs

  • Understanding of systems architecture, interface control, and requirement traceability concepts.

  • Excellent communication skills—able to produce clear documentation and present technical information to diverse audiences.

  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in multi‑disciplinary teams and influence without direct authority.

Desired Skills

  • General systems engineering and analysis

  • Experience with space-based electro-optical payload systems and their sub-systems and components; including design, development, testing; EO/IR, RF, electro-optical, sensor, laser, spacecraft, and ground systems

  • Familiarity with one or more of the following: electronics and FPGA technical experience, electro-optical sensor system technical experience

  • Development of test procedures for subsystem level verification

  • Knowledge of industry-standard verification methodologies as well as tools such as IBM DOORS or equivalent

  • Familiarity with traceability between requirements, design, verification and objective evidences

  • Experience with reviewing and evaluating verification Objective Evidences and collaborating with engineering design teams to identify and resolve verification issues

  • Prior experience with major milestone reviews (such as SRR, PDR, CDR, etc.)

  • Experience with space-based electro-optical payload systems and their sub-systems and components; including design, development, testing

  • Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical and/or engineering teams

  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail

  • Experience in Class C development environment

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $110300.00 - $204900.00

At Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow—both professionally and personally.

The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed 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(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.

  • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.

  • For (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.

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,642 open Systems Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$110–205K/yr
  • Colorado median$120–186K/yr204 salary ranges
  • US median$133–205K/yr1,912 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $158K, is close to the Colorado median midpoint ($156K) — in the middle half of Systems Engineering salary ranges in Colorado.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 242 open Systems Engineering jobs in Colorado and 2,642 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Colorado
Experience
Systems Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 10 years (2,091 postings).
Education
939 of the 2,642 open Systems Engineering jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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