AI Research Engineer

AI Research Engineer

By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, 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 diverse 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. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours.

Are you ready to join a team that's pushing the boundaries of Artificial Intelligence and making a real impact in the industry? The Lockheed Martin Artificial Intelligence Center (LAIC) team is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to support the Applied AI team and specifically the Cognitive Modules portfolio. As a key member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, from prototypes to deployment, and contribute to the development of innovative solutions that provide discriminating capability to our customers.

What You'll Be Doing

• Developing software products that implement Artificial Intelligence to provide cutting-edge solutions to our customers
• Engaging in every phase of the system development lifecycle, including requirements generation, system and software design, implementation, integration, and flight test
• Participating in activities such as proof of concepts, development of prototypes, building demonstrators, and transition to production
• Leveraging current computer science paradigms, including object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, concurrency, and I/O (block storage network database)
• Developing code to solve complex problems and field innovative solutions

What’s In It For You

We offer flexible work schedules and comprehensive benefits, investing in your future and security. Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.

At Lockheed Martin, we empower employees to think big, lead with a growth mindset, and make the impossible a reality. We provide the resources and flexibility to enable inspiration and focus - if you have the passion and courage to dream big, work hard, and have fun doing what you love, then we want to build a better tomorrow with you.

Who You Are

• A highly motivated and experienced individual with a strong background in software engineering and computer science
• Possessing a strong work ethic, self-motivation, time management, and interpersonal skills
• Familiar with current computer science paradigms, including object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, concurrency, and I/O (block storage network database)
• Experienced in developing code to solve complex problems and field innovative solutions
• A team player with excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or other related discipline.
• Experience with machine learning algorithms, in particular computer vision
• Experience with a deep learning library, such as PyTorch, Torch, Keras, Tensorflow, Scikit-learn (sklearn), or opencv
• Experience with python
• Must be a US Citizen; this position will require a government security clearance. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

Desired Skills

• Experience designing and working with tactical weapon, vehicle, and/or mission systems software
• Experience writing custom and novel machine learning architectures
• Work with real-world, dynamic datasets
• Experience building and deploying software for defense mission systems
• Experience with real-time embedded software engineering
• Experience with hardware-accelerated computing for both CPUs and GPUs (e.g. CUDA, Intel oneAPI, SYCL)
• Experience with model deployment software libraries and stacks (e.g. NVIDIA TensorRT, Triton Inference Server, OnnxRuntime)
• Experience deploying AI-enabled systems in multiple environments (e.g. cloud, edge devices)
• Experience with high-performance computing

Other Important Information

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Ability to work remotely

Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.

Key skills/competency

• AI Research Engineer
• Machine Learning
• Computer Vision
• Deep Learning
• PyTorch
• Tensorflow
• Python
• Software Engineering
• Algorithm Development
• System Development Lifecycle