Hardware Engineering Lead - (expat to Australia)

Company: Lockheed Martin
Location: Stratford
Posted on: April 2, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description PLEASE NOTE THIS POSITION REQUIRES THE CANDIDATE TO MOVE TO AUSTRALIA FOR 2 OR MORE YEARS WHAT WE’RE DOING The Enterprise Mission C2 (EMC2) organization is delivering advanced, multi-domain battle management capabilities that enable joint and coalition operations worldwide. We are seeking a proven and experienced technical leader to serve as the AIR6500 Hardware Engineering Lead. The AIR6500 program will provide a Joint Air Battle Management System capability for the Royal Australian Air Force, delivering multi-domain integration across air, electromagnetic, and missile defense battle management. The system includes deployable and fixed operations centers, communications infrastructure, and both active and passive sensor integration. This is a two-year expatriate assignment based in Adelaide, Australia, offering a unique opportunity to lead hardware engineering for a complex, international defense program. THE WORK As the AIR6500 Hardware Engineering Lead and member of the System Engineering & Integration Team (SEIT), you will provide technical leadership and ensure design integrity and consistency of the hardware solution across the full program lifecycle. You will oversee and lead all hardware technical aspects of the program, ensuring designs meet required specifications, environmental standards, integration requirements, and architectural alignment. Key Responsibilities • Provide technical leadership and oversight of all AIR6500 hardware development activities across Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), ensuring design integrity throughout the program lifecycle. • Drive the AIR6500 hardware solution and associated interfaces within the overall system architecture. • Establish and guide hardware requirements, sizing, and environmental qualification strategies in collaboration with System Architects and IPTs. • Lead hardware trade studies, non-functional requirement reviews, and technical sell-off approaches to ensure compliance and performance. • Oversee integration and verification planning, ensuring hardware solutions meet performance, environmental, and architectural standards. • Provide technical oversight and validation of subcontractor hardware analyses and deliverables. • Maintain a hands-on leadership approach—mentoring engineers while directly contributing to critical technical decisions and artifacts. WHO WE ARE EMC2 delivers mission-critical command and control capabilities through disciplined engineering, cross-domain integration, and international collaboration. Our teams operate in highly complex environments where architectural integrity, technical rigor, and stakeholder alignment are essential. We value leaders who combine systems thinking, technical depth, and execution discipline to deliver solutions that perform in demanding operational environments. WHO YOU ARE You are a technically grounded hardware leader with experience guiding complex system development in integrated, multi-disciplinary defense environments. You understand how environmental requirements, integration constraints, packaging limitations, and architectural alignment intersect in deployable military systems. You bring credibility in design reviews, trade studies, integration planning, and technical governance. You influence across engineering, suppliers, and international partners while maintaining accountability for cost, schedule, and performance outcomes. You combine strategic thinking with execution rigor—and you are energized by leading in a global setting while delivering mission-critical capability. Basic Qualifications • Extensive experience with hardware environmental qualification testing methods and standards. • Extensive experience in the development and derivation of environmental requirements for COTS equipment. • Significant experience in comparison and applicability of Military Standard Environmental Specifications (U.S. and NATO). • Experience in the design of field-deployable and mobile military systems. • Significant experience in integration and verification approaches for hardware systems. • Significant experience in rack-based equipment design optimization addressing thermal management, emissions coupling, and related constraints. • Knowledge of packaging approaches for ruggedized deployable land-based systems. Desired skills • Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including tools such as Rhapsody. • Experience with requirements decomposition and management tools (e.g., DOORS NG). • Experience with 3D modeling and analysis tools (e.g., Ansys) and familiarity with CAD platforms such as Creo or Zuken. • Knowledge of infrastructure hardware technologies, including computing (servers, clients, storage), networking, and cross-domain solutions. • Knowledge of power generation and distribution, electromechanical control systems, and environmental control systems. • Understanding of infrastructure software technologies including virtualization, multi-level security, cyber defense, and information assurance. • Demonstrated ability to design innovative solutions to complex technical challenges and mentor junior engineers. 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. * At Lockheed Martin, we use our passion for purposeful innovation to help 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, develop, 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. We place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering an inclusive environment built upon integrity and corporate responsibility. If this sounds like a culture you connect with, you’re invited to apply for this role. Or, if you are unsure whether your experience aligns with the requirements of this position, we encourage you to search on Lockheed Martin Jobs , and apply for roles that align with your qualifications. Other Important Information By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings. Ability to work remotely Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. Work Schedule Information Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits. Security Clearance Information This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration. Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California, Massachusetts, and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $122,900 - $216,660. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information 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 and business considerations when extending an offer. Benefits offered: 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, and Holidays. (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. This position is incentive plan eligible. Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $141,300 - $244,835. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information 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 and business considerations when extending an offer. Benefits offered: 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, and Holidays. This position is incentive plan eligible.

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