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# A/AI Software & Systems Engineer Sr Stf

- **Company:** Lockheed Martin
- **Location:** Bethesda, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $185,400 - $344,400
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Architecture, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), OpenShift, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Cloud Platform System, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Generative AI, Agentic-AI, Git, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Graphql, Restful APIs, Model Context Protocol, Software Version Control, Docker
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/D8C9279BB13D49609C7A80B08B8FFFD0/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
 * Strong communication skills with the ability to influence engineering teams, program leadership, executives, and customers.
 * Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership across multiple teams or a portfolio of multidisciplinary engineering efforts.
 * Technical background in AI/ML, data science, full stack software engineering, or a related discipline.
 * Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering AI-powered production systems - including deep hands-on work with LLMs, VLMs, and/or Generative AI
 * Experience with agentic workflows and production-level LLM tool-calling - architecting, deploying, and operating them at enterprise scale
 * Experienced in Agile development methodologies and version control systems (e.g., Git)
 * Experience architecting applications on cloud-based platforms and with containerization (e.g., Harbor, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS)
 * Contributes to the development of new concepts, techniques, and standards; considered an expert and demonstrates full knowledge of industry and company practices across related disciplines

Desired Skills

 * Experience mentoring engineers and building technical leadership across teams
 * Ability to set technical strategy, manage cross-team technical risks and dependencies
 * Experience leading major technical initiatives end-to-end through (planning to delivery).
 * Expert proficiency in Python, with production experience in React and TypeScript (able to set standards for others)
 * Deep knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic frameworks (e.g., AWS Strands Agents SDK, multi-agent orchestration patterns)
 * Experience designing data architectures on relational and graph databases
 * Experience defining strategy and standards for RESTful and GraphQL API development and integration
 * Regular and strategic use of GenAI coding assistants including shaping how teams adopt them
 * Familiarity with ISO/IEC 15288 systems-engineering processes