Software Quality Engineering Sr Staff - E5
Fort Worth, TXFull-time$129–240K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The F-16 Software Quality Engineer Team Lead develops and applies quality principles for software and software-based systems. The role verifies and validates test equipment, establishes software quality operating criteria, and designs development, maintenance, audit, and test processes. It evaluates software quality systems, reviews products against requirements, and verifies requirements traceability and testability. Minimum travel is required.
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Standard Job Description
This position is for an F-16 Software Quality Engineer Team lead. 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. Minimum travel required.
Basic Qualifications
-Experienced Familiar with details of individual aspects of 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 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 audits
-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-16 Software / Systems Development
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 1,060 open Quality Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$129–240K/yr
- Texas median$87–163K/yr27 salary ranges
- US median$116–181K/yr595 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $184K, is 50% above the Texas median midpoint ($123K) — in the top quarter of Quality Engineering salary ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 55 open Quality Engineering jobs in Texas and 1,060 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- Deloitte5 open
- Lockheed Martin (this employer)5 open
- Cognizant3 open
- Experience
- Quality Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 10 years (770 postings).
- Education
- 454 of the 1,060 open Quality Engineering jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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