Circuit Design Engineering Associate Managers, Avionics, Secret Clearance
The posting names a Secret clearance.
The posting offers a 9/80, 4/10 or other compressed week. More with a 9/80 schedule
About the role
Standard Job Description
Join us at Lockheed Martin as a Circuit Design Associate Managerand become a member of the US Navy's Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) D5 Life Extension 2 (D5LE2) Avionics team.
Location: This position does not support teleworking; the selected candidate will be located near our Lockheed Martin Space facility in: Littleton CO and be expected to work a flexible 9x80 schedule in the office full-time.
The FBM Program is experiencing significant growth, and we need your expertise to deliver amazing new technologies to our customers while maintaining the technical requirements of the strategic deterrence.
As a Circuit Design Associate Manager, you will lead the development of the Flight Control Electronics Subsystem for the weapons system.
Key Activities You Will Accomplish In This Role
- Provide leadership on a fast-paced team from requirements through development and production.
- Be responsible to assure coordination between functional groups during the product development life cycle.
- Communicate technical status and issues internally to program leadership, technical leadership and functional leadership as well as externally to the customer.
- Conducting personnel management for a portion of the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Tactical Avionics team.
- Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection, and training.
- Responsible for performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions.
- Participate in technical reviews and audits.
- Participate in day-to-day circuit design activities.
To be effective in this role, you will need
- A DoD Secret Clearance to start.
- 5+ years of professional experience.
- Detailed circuit design experience.
Basic Qualifications
- Post Secondary degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering from an accredited University or combined education/experience.
- Electronics hardware design, development and test experience of avionics electronics, at the circuit card and unit level.
- Project leadership experience in electronics hardware design with a track record of success in meeting technical, schedule, and cost objectives.
- Experience in the development including product ownership responsibility for missile, space, or equivalent high reliability applications.
Desired Skills
- Experience with the development of the Flight Control and Network Subsystems for the weapons system with an emphasis on the Missile Computer, Thrust Vector Control, Networking and Communications Bus architecture and design.
- Demonstrated experience with processors, computer networking and Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) hardware
- Demonstrated experience with Avionics Architecture (physical / functional).
- Understanding of analog and digital circuit design and analysis.
- Ability to interpret and create electrical schematics.
- Experience with Test and Measurement Equipment.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
- Aerospace experience supporting development of Flight Hardware.
- Certified Principal Engineer (CPE) or Responsible Systems Engineering (RSE) experience.
- Missile System design experience.
- Supply chain technical oversight experience including proposal support and technical evaluations.
- Demonstrated experience with electronics packaging.
- Demonstrated excellent written and oral communications skills are required, with an ability to address diverse audiences, such as customer reviews, management meetings, etc.
- Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $135700.00 - $251900.00
At Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow - both professionally and personally.
The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed 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(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered:Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (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.
Copied from the listing Lockheed Martin published, verified 31 Oct 2026.
About Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin Space builds GPS and missile warning satellites, NASA's Orion crew capsule and deep space probes.
Littleton is home to Lockheed Martin's Waterton Canyon space campus, for production, engineering and testing, where it built a $350 million satellite production facility. (Source: Denver7)
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