Cno Software Engineer - Early Career

Job ID: 700074BR

Date posted: Jan. 13, 2026

**Description:**By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we 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 development 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. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours.

Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a full-time Early Career Cyber Network Operations Software Engineer. As a CNO Developer, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of mission-critical programs developing specialized cyber tools, techniques and integrated effects. The work our team performs requires a much higher level of engagement and ingenuity than your average Cyber Security role. We are composing creative offensive cyber solutions to real-world problems, all in the name of national security. From Day One, you will be launched into a realm of thrilling new challenges where you'll be able to leverage your knowledge of OS security features, reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis, networking, firmware, kernel-level development, OS platform internals, etc.

The successful candidate will have experience and/or knowledge of Software Development and writing in software languages such as: C,C++, Python, Assembly.

Must be a US Citizen; this position will require a government security clearance.

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Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree majoring Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
• Experience performing Software Development and writing in software languages such as: C, C++, Python, Assembly
• Experience/knowledge developing, testing and debugging code (operating system kernel development experience is desired)
• Experience/knowledge of network protocols and data flows or similar concepts

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated experience with memory management and threading
• Demonstrated in-depth experience in tool development and kernel architecture in operating systems such as: Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS and Android
• Software development experience including design, implementation, testing, analysis and debugging supporting CNO/CNE.
• Experience in vulnerability research and applying various analysis techniques
• Experience in reverse engineering in various architectures (i.e. x86, ARM)
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of low level operating systems development and API(s)
• Experience with writing effective OS level code and extensions (such as device drivers for networking, storage, audio, video, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience performing Software Configuration Management
• Demonstrated experience writing unit test when developing new software and fixing bugs

Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: TS/SCI

Other Important Information You Should Know

Expression of Interest: 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 Schedules: 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.

Schedule for this Position: Standard Monday to Friday 40 hour work week

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.

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

Business Unit: SPACE

Relocation Available: Possible

Career Area: Software Engineering

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First