WHO WE ARE
At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, we apply our passion for purposeful innovation to keep people safe and solve the world’s most complex challenges. Our culture of performance excellence, ethics, teamwork, and inclusion is embedded in everything we do.
Our Power & Plasma Team is filled with passionate Engineers with diverse perspectives all working together as we invent and develop technologies for the air platforms of the future.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
As part of the Revolutionary Technology Program, you will contribute to the development of technologies for platforms 15-30 years in the future to set the direction of generation-after-next capabilities. You will perform the cutting-edge research needed to shape technologies of the future within Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®.
In this role, you will immediately impact the business with your ingenuity, creativity, and ideas that will be the catalyst for future business. If you are craving an opportunity to be passionate, push the envelope, and think outside the box, this opportunity with our Skunk Works may be just for you.
Join our team in the Aerospace Capital of America in sunny Palmdale, California. Discover Palmdale. Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually. Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy:
• Medical
• Dental
• 401k
• Paid time off
• Work/life balance
• Career development
• Mentorship opportunities
• Rewards & recognition

Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.

YOUR IMPACT
You will have the opportunity plan and execute technology development projects utilizing your experience in experimental plasma physics. You will be trusted with everything from road-mapping concepts from idea to proven capability, to developing computational models, to designing and performing plasma experiments.
Beyond that, you may also find yourself:
• Conducting initial trade studies of vehicle-level impact for new technologies/concepts
• Collaborating with external experts from academia, industry and government research labs
• Proactively coordinating with DoD customers to offer technological solutions and small businesses with innovative products


AeroHiringBlitz M.S. or Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Physics or related technical discipline

In-depth understanding of the physics and chemistry of nonequilibrium and reacting gas flows

Experience in computational chemistry and modeling nonequilibrium flows Demonstrated ability to apply cutting-edge high-temperature gas dynamics and/or computational chemistry capabilities to aerospace problems including one or more of the following: ionization, dissociation, recombination, high-temperature reacting flows, plasma-surface interactions, emissions, etc.

Experience with Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC), Potential Energy Surfaces (PES), Quasi-Classical Trajectories (QCT), Direct Molecular Simulation (DMS), etc. for rate estimation

Familiarity with non-equilibrium processes and related chemistry effects (e.g. excited vibrational and electronic states, metastable states, energy transfer rates, etc.)

Fluent in high performance computing (HPC) tools and processes

Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills

Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams

Excellent technical writing and presentation skills

Self-directed, highly motivated, product-oriented approach to research

Familiarity with military aircraft systems or other DOD platforms; experience working on DOD or other government-funded programs 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.