Systems Engineering - Early Career
Palmdale, CAFull-time$66–122K/yrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Lockheed Martin Aeronautics seeks a full-time Early Career Systems Engineer to elicit and document requirements, manage changes and compliance assessments, support system architecture and design, and verify and validate system requirements while managing risk. The role also involves systems analysis and translating customer or product requirements into solutions within technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Candidates need a bachelor's degree in a specified field and U.S. citizenship.
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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.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics is seeking a full-time Early Career Systems Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for eliciting and documenting requirements. You will manage changes and compliance assessments of these requirements. Support the architecture of systems. Support the preliminary and detail designs. Verify and validate system requirements and manage risk. The successful candidate will have expereince and/or knowledge of System Design, engineering development and excellent written and oral communication.
Must be a US Citizen; this position will require a government security clearance. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.
Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Physics or Engineering
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Must be a US Citizen; this position requires a government security clearance
Desired Skills
Understanding of aircraft design
Experience with Microsoft office and a programming language
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $65500.00 - $121700.00
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 11,801 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$66–122K/yr
- California median$145–213K/yr1,792 salary ranges
- US median$115–190K/yr8,842 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $94K, is 47% below the California median midpoint ($178K) — in the lowest quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,088 open Systems Engineer jobs in California and 11,801 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Anduril264 open
- Northrop Grumman201 open
- The Boeing Company102 open
- Experience
- Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (9,718 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 4,403 of the 11,801 open Systems Engineer jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 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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