Radio Frequency Engineer - Early Career
Colorado Springs, COFull-time$67–124K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Radio Frequency Engineer will join Lockheed Martin’s GPS Control Segment II Sustainment team in Colorado Springs, supporting reliable GPS capabilities. The role designs RF systems and circuitry for high-frequency and microwave applications, develops system architectures, and analyzes and tests RF hardware. It also supports product documentation and manufacturing, performs link analysis and trade studies, and contributes to reliability and life-cycle cost analysis.
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Full job description
Standard Job Description
At Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. This is a place for engineers, scientists, and problem-solvers who are ready to engage deeply, think critically, and build with purpose. You will not just launch a career. You will be part of something bigger. This is where the best are built.
The GPS Control Segment II (GCS II) Sustainment team in Colorado Springs, CO is enabling our customer's mission of delivering and sustaining reliable GPS capabilities to America's warfighters, allies and civil users; and we're looking for motivated self-driven engineers to join us.
Architects and designs Radio Frequency systems and circuitry. Designs and develops RF circuitry used in high frequency and microwave applications, including receivers, transmitters, antennas, and frequency synthesizers. Responsible for hardware layout, component evaluation, prototype construction, and test. Prepares test methods and specifications; analyzes and tests RF hardware to verify performance characteristics. Provides inputs to Product Development for formal documentation and supports manufacturing during the deliverable assembly and test phase. In addition, develops RF System/Subsystem Architectures consisting of: antennas, transmitters, receivers, low noise amplifiers, high power amplifiers, RF conversion elements and transmission line equipment. Performs link analysis and optimization, including effects of propagation medium and possible interference sources. Develops and allocates RF system and subsystem functional and performance requirements. Identifies and tracks RF technical performance measurements (TPMs). Performs RF system/subsystem/component trade studies and CAIV analysis. Supports Life Cycle Costs, reliability, availability, and maintainability analysis.
Basic Qualifications
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Electrical engineering degree or related field
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Familiarity with programming languages like C, C++, Java
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Experience with MATLAB and Python
Desired Skills
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Basic knowledge and understanding of RF principles and practices
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Knowledge in Digital Signal Processing
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Basic understanding of modulation techniques
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Basic concepts of hardware design
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Shell scripting
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Basic knowledge of Software Defined Radios
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Good communications skills
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Basic experience with RHEL or Solaris
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $67000.00 - $124400.00
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.
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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.
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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 10,450 open Electrical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$67–124K/yr
- Colorado median$110–160K/yr369 salary ranges
- US median$108–170K/yr6,696 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $96K, is 29% below the Colorado median midpoint ($135K) — in the lowest quarter of Electrical Engineer salary ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 473 open Electrical Engineer jobs in Colorado and 10,450 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
- Lockheed Martin (this employer)30 open
- Jacobs25 open
- Scientific Applicati18 open
- Experience
- Electrical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (8,716 postings).
- Education
- 7,011 of the 10,450 open Electrical Engineer jobs (67%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 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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