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Cyber Software Engineer - Early Career

Lockheed Martin
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Oct 2025
💰 $130,295/yr($65,300/yr$130,295/yr)

About the role

Security Clearance

TS/SCI

Shift

First

Direct/Indirect

Direct

Business Area

Space

Department

72E3A00:Cyber Engineering

Relocation/Housing Stipend Available

Possible

Job Code/Title

E9751:Cyber Software Engr Asc

Job Class

Software Engineering

Job Category

4 yr and up College

Program

Cyber

Req Type

Full-Time

Job Description

By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours.

Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a part-time Early Career Cyber Network Operations Software Engineer. As a CNO Developer, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of mission-critical programs developing specialized cyber tools, techniques and integrated effects. The work our team performs requires a much higher level of engagement and ingenuity than your average Cyber Security role. We are composing creative offensive cyber solutions to real-world problems, all in the name of national security. From Day One, you will be launched into a realm of thrilling new challenges where you’ll be able to leverage your knowledge of OS security features, reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis, networking, firmware, kernel-level development, OS platform internals, etc.

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information, including US Citizenship.

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Basic Qualifications

- Experience performing Software Development and writing in software languages such as: C, C++, Python, Assembly
- Experience/knowledge developing, testing and debugging code (operating system kernel development experience is desired)
- Experience/knowledge of network protocols and data flows or similar concepts
-Bachelor's degree majoring Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
- Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information, including US Citizenship.

Desired skills

- Demonstrated experience with memory management and threading
- Demonstrated in-depth experience in tool development and kernel architecture in operating systems such as: Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS and Android
- Software development experience including design, implementation, testing, analysis and debugging supporting CNO/CNE.
- Experience in vulnerability research and applying various analysis techniques
- Experience in reverse engineering in various architectures (i.e. x86, ARM)
- Demonstrated in-depth understanding of low level operating systems development and API(s)
- Experience with writing effective OS level code and extensions (such as device drivers for networking, storage, audio, video, etc.)
- Demonstrated experience performing Software Configuration Management
- Demonstrated experience writing unit test when developing new software and fixing bugs
-Active TS/SCI clearance

State

Virginia

Zip

20171

EEO

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.

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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.

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