Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lockheed Martin is a leader in aerospace and defense, and they are seeking a Senior AI Machine Learning Engineer to join their Data & AI Enablement team. The role involves designing and developing software solutions that enhance interoperability between enterprise systems and AI-enabled workflows, requiring collaboration with various stakeholders and a strong focus on secure software practices.
Responsibilities
- Designing and developing full stack software solutions using modern front-end, back-end, database, and API technologies
- Building integrations between enterprise systems through REST APIs, event-driven patterns, middleware (e.g. eQube, Quarkus, AMQ), ETL/data pipelines, and automation frameworks
- Developing AI-enabled capabilities that incorporate large language models, AI services, prompt engineering, model APIs, semantic search, document analysis, or intelligent workflow automation
- Creating and maintaining APIs and services that support interoperability, data exchange, system synchronization, and workflow orchestration
- Implementing secure software engineering practices aligned with enterprise cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and data governance requirements
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions and deliver capabilities in an agile environment
- Troubleshooting complex integration issues involving data mappings, authentication, API behavior, system dependencies, performance, and reliability
- Supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployment activities for cloud, containerized, or enterprise-hosted applications
- Providing technical leadership within the team, including solution design input, code reviews, mentoring, and guidance on engineering best practices
Skills
- Experience developing software using one or more modern programming languages, such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, or similar
- Experience developing full stack applications, including user interface, back-end service, API, and database components
- Experience designing, developing, or consuming REST APIs or similar integration interfaces
- Experience with Git-based software configuration management tools, such as GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, or similar
- Experience working in an Agile software development environment
- Experience developing AI-enabled applications, including integration with large language models, AI APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, embeddings, prompt engineering, or intelligent workflow automation
- Experience building enterprise system integrations using REST APIs, message queues, event-driven architectures, middleware, ETL/data pipelines, or workflow automation
- Experience with integration or middleware technologies, such as eQube, Quarkus, AMQ, Kafka, MuleSoft, Camel, or similar
- Experience with DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, static code analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning, secrets management, or infrastructure as code
- Experience with cloud or container platforms, such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, Azure, or similar
- Experience with enterprise software development tools, such as GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, Jenkins, or similar
- Experience with Jira or GitLab APIs, webhooks, workflow automation, issue synchronization, merge request workflows, or repository automation
- Experience with relational or NoSQL databases, including schema design, query development, data modeling, or application integration
- Experience with secure software development practices, including authentication, authorization, role-based access control, API security, audit logging, and secure handling of sensitive data
- Experience with test automation, including unit testing, integration testing, API testing, end-to-end testing, or test-driven development
- Experience troubleshooting distributed applications or integrations, including API behavior, data mapping, authentication, system dependencies, observability, performance, and reliability
- Experience mentoring engineers, leading technical design discussions, performing code reviews, or establishing engineering best practices
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- EAP
- Education Assistance
- Parental Leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- This position is incentive plan eligible.
- Full-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work remotely full time at a location other than a Lockheed Martin designated office/job site. Employees may travel to a Lockheed Martin office for periodic meetings.
- 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.
- 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.
Company Overview
Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that specializes in advanced technology systems, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Lockheed Martin. It was founded in 1912, and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.lockheedmartin.com.