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Systems Engineering - Mission Thread Lead

Job in Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado, 80161, USA
Listing for: Lockheed Martin
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-19
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, Engineering Design & Technologists
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Basic Qualifications

  • Experienced technical lead in systems engineering or another engineering field
  • Experience integrating or troubleshooting electrical or hardware-software systems
  • Experience with requirements verification and validation
  • Active or current Secret Security clearance; US Citizenship Required
Job Description

Protecting what matters most is the mission that matters most.

The Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) program offers challenging and unique career opportunities, working across the full development lifecycle, and resulting in fielding advanced hypersonic weapon systems to the warfighter.

As the Systems Engineer - Mission Thread Lead you will build relationships across the program and with our national partners to meet all critical program milestones and ensure clean handoffs.

Additionally, you will be responsible for maintaining and adjusting the detailed plan coordinating the multiple teams, and to facilitate discussions and problem resolution and issues or gaps are discovered.

What does this role look like?
  • Work with IPT Senior Managers and Program Executives to translate the long-range plans into a synchronized execution roadmap
  • Develop strong working relationships with the larger systems team, national team members, and customers to ensure successful delivery of each software build
  • Integrate with the systems verification and test teams to facilitate a clean handoff of software for testing across multiple sites
  • Connect multi-discipline communities to tackle challenges and gaps in development and test
  • Establish, manage, and communicate team expectations, goals, roles, responsibilities, and objectives
  • Utilize your excellent interpersonal skills to coordinate and resolve programmatic and technical issues across the program, identify risks, and appropriate mitigation plans
  • Collaborate with government and customer representatives in support of critical schedule and distributed multi-element deliveries and activities
  • This role does require travel to customer sites, approximately 25%
Desired Skills
  • Customer interaction and familiarity with the DoD Labs/Facilities
  • Demonstrated understanding and application of Systems Engineering and a Systems Thinking mindset
  • Experience working with groups and organizations outside of your immediate product area
  • Experience with Software Development
  • Experience with Guidance Navigation and Control
  • Ability to manage multiple, often-competing requests, effectively prioritizing the most urgent ones
  • Ability to look across the entire system to identify potential impacts of a change
  • Ability to plan out and accomplish tasks with minimal oversight and support
  • Passion to apply creative problem solving and creative thinking to accomplish what seems impossible
  • Excellent presentation and written communication skills
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

Onsite Full-time:
The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.

Select the Telework classification for this position

Employee will work on-site full-time

Ability to Telecommute

No telecommuting

Shift

First

Work Schedule Information

Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.

Work Schedule

9x80 every other Friday off

Security Clearance Information

This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Security Clearance

Secret

LMCareers Business Unit

SPACE

Program

CPS

Department

71K0A00:

Hypersonics SE

Job Class

Systems Engineering:
Other

Job Category

Experienced Professional

City, State

Littleton-CO

City

Littleton

Zip

80127

Virtual

no

Relocation/Housing Stipend Available

Possible

Req Type

Full-Time

Direct/Indirect

Direct

About Lockheed Martin

At Lockheed Martin, we use our passion for purposeful innovation to help 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, develop, 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. We place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering an inclusive environment built upon integrity and corporate responsibility.

EEO

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally…

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