Software Quality Engineering Sr Stf - E5
Fort Worth, TXFull-time$129–240K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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The Software Quality Engineering role develops and applies quality principles and processes across software development and maintenance. It conducts software verification, validation, audits, and product reviews to ensure compliance with project and contractual requirements and acceptable reliability standards. The position requires a Secret clearance and minimal travel, and includes leading, mentoring, and guiding early-career engineers.
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Standard Job Description
Develops, modifies and applies quality principles to the development and use of software and software-based systems for make and/or buy software products. Performs verification and validation of test equipment including hardware in the loop systems. Develops overall operating criteria to ensure implementation of the software quality program according to project, process and contract requirements and objectives. Designs and implements software development and maintenance processes. Defines audit strategy to ensure compliance to systems/software processes. Designs, specifies and conducts test methods for software inspection, verification and validation. Evaluates and analyzes software quality systems for deficiency identification and correction. Ensures measures meet acceptable reliability standards. Performs software product reviews against contractual, technical and/or process requirements. Reviews include requirement specifications, design documents, source code, test plans and procedures, materials, tools, techniques, and methodologies. Performs or directs verification of software requirement allocations, traceability, and testability. Secret Clearance Required. Minimal travel required.
Basic Qualifications
-Experienced with the software lifecycle (e.g. Requirements, Design, Coding, Unit Testing, Formal Testing, Integration & Testing, Release, Configuration Management, Problem Resolution)
-Experienced in horizontal, vertical, and external communication
-High Energy, self-starting, team player who achieves goals
-Hands-on experience applying Software Quality Engineering principles within Agile, SCRUM, or DevSecOps (DSO) environments
-Experienced in leading, mentoring and guiding early career engineers
Desired Skills
-Hands-on experience applying Software Quality Engineering principles within Agile, SCRUM, or DevSecOps (DSO) environments
-Experience with process and product auditing
-Experience with one or more of the following: C++, Python, Java, and/or C
-Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications, JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Gitlab, Artifactory, Cameo
-Excellent interpersonal skills needed for collaboration, communication, and presentations as well as resolving issues with multiple organizations
-Software experience—requirements decomp, verification/validation, coding
-Experience with Airworthiness/Safety requirements
-Working experience with Airworthiness Certification (RTCA DO-178/DO-278 and MIL-STD-516)
-Demonstrated quality science expertise in one or more of the following areas: Statistical analysis, statistical process control, sampling, six sigma, root cause analysis
-Proficient with Tools: Tableau
-Working experience with AS9100 or AS9115 Standards
-F-22 Software / Systems Development experience preferred
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $129000.00 - $239600.00
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 7,378 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$129–240K/yr
- Texas median$135–231K/yr239 salary ranges
- US median$150–248K/yr5,589 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $184K, is close to the Texas median midpoint ($184K) — in the middle half of Software Engineering salary ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 435 open Software Engineering jobs in Texas and 7,378 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- JPMorgan Chase55 open
- Deloitte35 open
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- Experience
- Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (5,837 postings).
- Education
- 2,135 of the 7,378 open Software Engineering jobs (29%) 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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