Flight Controls and Autonomy Engineer

Company: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
Location: Stratford
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

COVID-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities. With employee health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Lockheed Martin is taking action to address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID-19 variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we meet our commitments to national security.

To uphold safety for all employees, we will continue to request vaccination status for all Lockheed Martin employees including new hires. All current and newly hired employees are required to follow onsite safety measures based upon the COVID-19 Community Level at the specific work location.
Description:This job is aligned with our 21st Century Warfare (21CWFAIA) initiative to help the U.S. and its allies leverage emerging technologies to deter threats to economic prosperity and national security.

Come and experience your future!

Be the best possible you!

At Lockheed Martin, we are passionate about innovation and integrity. We believe that by applying the highest standards of business ethics and forward-thinking, everything is within our capacity - and yours as a Lockheed Martin employee. Lockheed Martin values your skills, training, education, and background.

Do you want to be part of an environment that encourages and supports employees to think big, perform with quality and build incredible products? We provide the resources, reassurance, and focus - if you have the resourcefulness and courage to work hard, then we want to build a better tomorrow with you.

Define the future of aviation. Stand at the forefront of technology and innovation. Transform your ideas and dreams into reality. Join Lockheed Martin's Flight Controls and Autonomy team and be part of the greatest transformation in aviation history; unmanned fully autonomous flight.

The Flight Controls and Autonomy team is currently seeking highly motivated technology pioneers with a desire to steer and lead the Autonomy industry. Successful candidates must be willing and able to work on highly complex complicated problems.

Leading to world-changing technological breakthroughs.

Team's technical areas of emphasis include Fly-By-Wire Flight Control Systems, Guidance/Navigation & Control (GNC), Flight Test, Autonomy, Aviation Robotics, Perception, AI, and Motion Planning.

In this role, you'll work with a team to build novel software architectures, algorithms, and tools for modeling the world. The world model representation should fuse a-priori information (terrain, towers, airspaces) with real-time sensor data. The world model representation is tightly integrated into our motion planning software to deliver a safe and smooth path for helicopter.
Develop databases and analytics tools to enable collection and processing of very large terrain and point cloud based data sets.

Look no further, the future of aviation is here. Join our awesome team today!
Basic Qualifications:
B.S. in computer science, electrical, robotics engineering or related science field.

MS Preferred
5+ Years of Experience

• Experience with localization, mapping andsegmentation.
  
  • Experience in sensor, fusion and processing.
  • Strong C/C++ programming background
  • Experience with algorithm design.
  • Commitment to mentoring and team development.Desired Skills:
    
    • Experience with heterogeneous computing andparallelization.
      
      • Experience with inter-process communications layers.
      • Experience working with large databases.
      • Linux environment.
      • Experience in LIDAR point cloud processing.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
        job.Qualifications
        
        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.
        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

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