Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lockheed Martin’s AI Research & Enterprise Solutions team creates production-grade artificial intelligence solutions for enterprise use. The AI/ML Engineer Staff partners with internal stakeholders to develop, integrate, and deploy end-to-end machine-learning pipelines, large-language-model capabilities, and autonomy algorithms across mission systems and products.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for developing, integrating, and deploying autonomy and artificial intelligence algorithms for mission systems, supporting the technology development life cycle from requirements generation through development, integration, and testing, as well as research in some organizations
- Develops, integrates, and implements algorithms to enable perception, motion/mission planning, controls, etc. functionality in LM products and platforms; Translates requirements and applies requirements to development code, integrating autonomy, AI or machine learning algorithms to LM products and platforms; Determines software methods to best acquire and execute knowledge; Implements algorithms into software to train systems to recognize patterns and perform specific functions; Responsible for various phases of developing and maintaining autonomy software from requirements generation, software design and development to integration, testing, troubleshooting and debugging, and implementation; Review test outcomes, conducts troubleshooting, and works to debug issues; Develops human-machine interface scenarios, breaking missions into tasks; Documents interface requirements and implements human-machine interfaces
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, AI/ML, or a related discipline
- Proficiency in Python – write clean, well‑documented code and explain your logic
- Knowledge of the data‑science lifecycle, big‑data concepts, deep‑learning fundamentals, and reinforcement‑learning ideas
- Basic awareness of Generative AI capabilities such as large‑language models (LLMs)
- Demonstrated initiative and research mindset – comfortable navigating documentation, exploring new tools, and proposing ideas with minimal supervision
- Strong problem‑solving and communication skills; able to work with internal customers to gather requirements and provide clear status updates
- Experience with LLM frameworks or APIs (e.g., LangChain, OpenAI, Cohere)
- Exposure to MLOps fundamentals: CI/CD pipelines, model versioning, monitoring, Docker/Kubernetes
- Knowledge‑graph or ontology work (SPARQL, embeddings, graph‑based feature engineering)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and OpenShift
- Ability to quickly absorb new tools, applications, or approaches from documentation or public repositories and contribute ideas to the team
- Research‑oriented mindset – conducting industry/academic research, networking with peers, and surfacing innovative strategies
- Breadth of interest or experience with diverse data‑application domains (structured, unstructured, time‑series, sensor, etc.)
- Experience with Git fundamentals (branching, merging, pull‑requests, basic workflow conventions)
- Understanding of RESTful APIs and ability to integrate them into data pipelines
- Basic familiarity with Docker (or comparable container technology)
Benefits
- 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
- 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.
- For Washington state applicants only, 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.
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