
System Integration & Test Engineer II
Role summary
Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a Systems Integration & Test Engineer II to plan and execute testing for complex systems and subsystems. This hands-on role involves translating technical requirements into test strategies, working with hardware in lab and integration environments, and ensuring system performance from early integration through final validation. Key responsibilities include creating test plans, supporting system integration, leading test execution, analyzing results, and performing regression testing. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, hands-on system testing experience, and familiarity with RF test equipment. A U.S. Secret security clearance is mandatory. Preferred qualifications include experience with test automation, RF components, and COTS/GOTS integration.
JOB ID: 722938BR
Date posted: Apr. 03, 2026
Description:
Role Overview
As a Systems Integration & Test Engineer, you will plan and execute testing for complex systems and subsystems. You’ll turn technical requirements into practical test approaches, work hands-on with hardware, and help ensure systems perform as expected—from early integration through final validation.
Key Duties / Responsibilities
- Create and maintain test plans, procedures, and documentation
- Translate requirements into clear, executable test strategies
- Support system integration by defining specifications and resolving interface issues
- Lead and support test execution, including setup, scheduling, and reporting
- Analyze results and document system performance
- Identify issues, write discrepancy reports, and support resolution
- Perform regression testing to confirm fixes
- Coordinate testing activities across teams and programs
- Work directly with hardware in lab and integration environments
Work Environment
- Hands-on role in labs, test facilities, and integration sites
- Team-based environment with close collaboration across engineering groups
- Fast-paced work tied to program milestones and test schedules
- May require flexibility in hours during key testing periods
Why You’ll Love This Role
- Work on real systems that go beyond the lab—spacecraft, defense platforms, and more
- See your work move from concept to tested system
- Build deep, hands-on expertise in integration and test engineering
- Collaborate with experienced engineers on meaningful technical challenges
About Lockheed Martin Space
Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.
At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.
Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.
Company Mission & Program Overview
Lockheed Martin Space develops advanced technologies that support national security and expand what’s possible in space. This role contributes directly to ensuring those systems are tested, integrated, and mission-ready.
Why LM
- Work on high-impact programs with real-world outcomes
- Access to advanced tools, labs, and technologies
- Opportunities to grow technical depth and broaden system-level experience
- Collaborative culture focused on solving complex engineering challenges
Basic Qualifications:
Candidates must meet all of the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field such as Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Hands-on experience with system or subsystem testing
- Experience using radio frequency (RF) test equipment and hardware
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance (U.S. citizenship required)
- Willingness to support testing needs that may include extended hours or alternate shifts
Desired Skills:
These are not required but will strengthen your application:
- 1–2+ years of related professional experience
- Certified Test Conductor (CTC) or similar certification
- Experience with test automation or integration of lab, ground, or flight hardware
- Knowledge of RF components (e.g., antennas, receivers, amplifiers)
- Experience integrating or troubleshooting commercial or government off-the-shelf components (COTS/GOTS)
- Familiarity with test instrumentation, data collection, and control systems
- Background in aerospace, defense, or similar system-level testing environments
- Comfortable working in collaborative teams and adapting to changing priorities
- Ability to travel occasionally, if needed
Security Clearance Statement:
This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level:
Secret
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:
Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
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:
9x80 every other Friday off
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
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:
SPACE
Relocation Available:
No
Career Area:
Test Engineering
Type:
Full-Time
Shift:
Second
At Lockheed Martin, we apply our passion for purposeful innovation to keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges.
Pioneering Defense Technology: From aerospace to outer space to cyber space, you can innovate mission solutions alongside the best minds in the business.
United By Culture: Excellence, integrity, and collaboration define us. We accelerate change and embrace one another’s perspectives to win for our customers.
Real Impact, Real Growth: Grow your career and skills for life. Our wide array of opportunities and technology-driven learning programs enable your development and agility.
Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life: Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits and flexible schedules designed so you thrive — at work and beyond.
Empowered to Be Your Best: Use your strengths to make a difference in the lives of one another, our customers, our communities, and our planet.
Here, the possibilities are endless because we offer:
Flexible Schedules, dependent on role
Levels: Student, Entry, Mid, Senior, Management
Locations: Nationwide & OCONUS Positions
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