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Lockheed Martin

Research Scientist

Palo Alto, CA

Description:At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder. Our amazing men and women are on a mission to make a difference in the world and every day we use our unique skills and experiences to create, design and build solutions to some of the worlds' hardest engineering problems. Our culture encourages employees to dream big, perform with excellence and create incredible products. We provide the resources, inspiration and focus and if you have the passion and courage to dream big, we want to build a better tomorrow with you.

The Advanced Technology Center is seeking exceptional candidates with a strong technical background, a passion for collaborating across a diverse, high-performing organization and a motivation to discover creative solutions to some of our nation's highest priority problems. Our department solves problems by understanding observables based on fundamental physics and using that understanding to develop innovative methods to process, analyze and exploit the data collected by our systems. Our team supports a wide variety of mission areas and customers, applying cutting edge disciplines such as 3D lidar sensing, machine learning/artificial intelligence and quantum computing. This position will provide support to senior researchers in the areas of phenomenology, sensor modeling, image and signal processing, modeling and simulation.

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How will Lockheed Martin Space support your mission?
To promote the sharing of ideas, Lockheed Martin champions an inclusive work environment that supports differences and big-picture thinking. Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than hours annually. Benefits you can enjoy include:

- Medical
- Dental
- 401k
- Paid time off
- 25 three-day weekends
- Work/life balance
- Career development
- Mentorship opportunities
- Rewards & recognition

This is for positions in the Sunnyvale and Palo Alto, California area.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelors' degree in Physics, Chemistry, Optics, Remote Sensing, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education. Entry level.

This position requires special access to support the program and requires the selected candidate to be a US Citizen. Ability to obtain a clearance
Desired Skills:
The successful candidate will have demonstrated proficiency or mastery of at least several of the desired skills, as well as the interest, motivation and ability to learn and grow in the other desired skill areas:
• Radiometry
• EO/IR sensors
• Image and signal processing
• Data analysis
• Statistical analyses
• Machine learning
• Artificial intelligence
• Modeling and simulation
• Basic scripting & software development
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
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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:
4 yr and up College

Job ID: lockheed-537473BR
Employment Type: Other

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