Lead AI/Machine Learning Engineer
Lockheed Martin •
Position Type: Permanent
Job Description:
Description:When it comes to using cutting-edge machine learning to tackle complex problems, Lockheed Martin is driven by a singular mission focus and desire to continuously innovate. Today’s challenges to global security aren’t just changing – they’re accelerating faster than ever before. Through our dedication to our mission, our AI-enabled systems are changing the way militaries operate and protect their forces, the way first responders fight fires, and how researchers explore the far reaches of space and the ocean’s depths.
The Lockheed Martin Artificial Intelligence Center (LAIC) team is seeking a high energy technical leader with hands-on experience in software engineering and AI/ML to lead and grow the AI Consulting portfolio for the business. In this role you will be part of the AI Foundations team consisting of colleagues possessing varying skill sets including AI/Machine Learning specialists, front-end and back-end developers, data engineers, product managers, and other data scientists. The selected candidate will focus on the AI Consulting team but will be included as part of a broader range of projects across the LAIC portfolio. The team is focused on exploiting small, innovative, and agile teams to rapidly iterate and mature solutions from prototypes to deployment for utilization across the Lockheed Martin enterprise.
The responsibilities of this position include collaboration with business stakeholders to identify business opportunities and requirements to develop associated AI/ML models that deliver useful, actionable recommendations, or which augment human capabilities in various work settings. The candidate is responsible for modeling complex business and engineering problems, discovering insights and deploying AI capabilities using machine learning and associated feature engineering techniques. Responsibilities also include tracking projects and driving work on them through to completion, as well as implementing technical best practices from the fields of machine learning and software engineering.
The candidate will need a combination of business focus, creative thinking, strong analytical and problem solving skills, and programming knowledge to be able to quickly cycle hypotheses through the discovery phase of the project. Excellent communications skills to understand the needs of the business, and to communicate the value of the models built back to the business.
Domestic travel will be required (typically less than 10)
MUST BE A US CITIZEN.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience, with 9 years of professional experience; or 7 years of experience required with a related Master’s degree.
• Previous experience building machine learning models by way of work, projects, courses, etc.
• Previous experience in applying any of the following machine learning areas to business problems: natural language processing, deep learning, anomaly detection, reinforcement learning, and generative AI.
• Previous experience evaluating model performance, including performance metric selection.
• Previous experience with feature engineering and data cleaning/pre-processing.
• Experience with developing software and software engineering best practices.
• Demonstrated creativity and innovation in identifying valuable ways of incorporating machine learning into business workflows and processes.
• Superlative communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to stay updated on new technologies in the rapidly evolving field of AI.
• Must have strong problem-solving skills, business acumen, and demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in running data product projects from start to finish and interacting with end user customers.
• Experience with stakeholder communication and defining requirements
• Preferred languages: Python
• Must be a US citizen
Desired Skills:
• Hands-on experience building with generative AI models and developing full-stack applications leveraging LLMs and/or multi-modal models
• Expertise in natural language processing (i.e. text classification, topic modeling, working with embedding models, language modeling, question answering, NER, etc.).
• Expertise applying deep learning (i.e. CNNs, RNNS, LSTMs, and reinforcement learning to image, video and/or text data).
• Experience with integration of data products into customer applications.
• Experience with or knowledge of data engineering (preferably AWS or Azure).
• Experience with or expertise in manufacturing and/or engineering processes.
• Experience with UI/UX and/or human-machine interaction and data visualization best practices.
Clearance Level: None
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: 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: 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.
Work Schedules: 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.
Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Pay Rate:
The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California and New York is $141,700 - $267,000. Please note that the salary information 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 and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: 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, and Holidays.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
Pay Rate:
The annual base salary range for this position in California and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, or Washington is $123,200 - $236,100 . Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidates work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: 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, and Holidays.
(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.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.
As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: ENTERPRISE BUSINESS SERVICES
Relocation Available: No
Career Area: Artificial Intelligence
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
• Hands-on experience building with generative AI models and developing full-stack applications leveraging LLMs and/or multi-modal models
• Expertise in natural language processing (i.e. text classification, topic modeling, working with embedding models, language modeling, question answering, NER, etc.).
• Expertise applying deep learning (i.e. CNNs, RNNS, LSTMs, and reinforcement learning to image, video and/or text data).
• Experience with integration of data products into customer applications.
• Experience with or knowledge of data engineering (preferably AWS or Azure).
• Experience with or expertise in manufacturing and/or engineering processes.
• Experience with UI/UX and/or human-machine interaction and data visualization best practices.
Job Ident #:
62584946336
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