AI Research Engineer- Early Career (Hybrid, Fort Worth)

Lockheed Martin is a leader in innovative technology solutions, and they are seeking an AI Research Engineer to join their Applied AI team. This role involves developing software products utilizing Artificial Intelligence and participating in all phases of the system development lifecycle, contributing to innovative solutions for customers.

Responsibilities

• Developing software products that implement Artificial Intelligence to provide cutting-edge solutions to our customers
• Engaging in every phase of the system development lifecycle, including requirements generation, system and software design, implementation, integration, and flight test
• Participating in activities such as proof of concepts, development of prototypes, building demonstrators, and transition to production
• Leveraging current computer science paradigms, including object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, concurrency, and I/O (block storage network database)
• Developing code to solve complex problems and field innovative solutions

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or other related discipline
• Experience with computer vision machine learning models and techniques
• Experience with a deep learning library, such as PyTorch, Torch, Keras, Tensorflow, Scikit-learn (sklearn), or opencv
• Experience with python
• Must be a US Citizen; this position will require a government security clearance. This position is located at a facility that requires special access
• You are a highly motivated and experienced individual with a strong background in software engineering and computer science
• You have a strong work ethic, self-motivation, time management, and interpersonal skills
• You are familiar with current computer science paradigms, including object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, concurrency, and I/O (block storage network database)
• You have experience developing code to solve complex problems and field innovative solutions
• You are a team player with excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment
• Experience with DevOps tools (Docker/Podman, Git, or GitLab CI/CD)
• Experience with at least one of the following messaging protocols; Kafka or ActiveMQ or ZeroMQ or DDS
• Experience with at least one of the following communication protocols; REST or gRPC
• Experience with Test-Driven Development from both unit- and system/acceptance-level perspectives
• Experience with software orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, Istio/Linkerd) and modern GitOps workflows
• Experience developing microservices and microservice architectures
• Experience building and deploying software for defense mission systems
• Experience with real-time embedded software engineering
• Experience with hardware-accelerated computing for both CPUs and GPUs (e.g. CUDA, Intel oneAPI, SYCL)
• Experience with model deployment software libraries and stacks (e.g. NVIDIA TensorRT, Triton Inference Server, OnnxRuntime)
• Experience deploying AI-enabled systems in multiple environments (e.g. cloud, edge devices)
• Experience with high-performance computing
• Experience interfacing with databases (SQL, MongoDB, etc.)
• Experience leading other engineers or small teams
• Familiarity with transitioning prototype software to production
• Secret Clearance

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability
• Long-Term Disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• EAP
• Education Assistance
• Parental Leave
• Paid time off
• Holidays

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