Lockheed Martin

Forward Deployed Engineer Sr

We captured this posting once, on 2026-07-06, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer
Lockheed Martin
Location
Fort Worth, TX
Seniority
Senior
Experience asked for
3+ years
Pay band
Not disclosed

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-06-11 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-07-06 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

mlopsml infrastructuregenai systemsmodel traininginference workflowsgenaiagentic workflowsdebuggingwritten and verbal communicationtechnical discoverysolution shapingimplementation

From the posting

Basic Qualifications 3+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, platform engineering, MLOps, ML infrastructure, or GenAI systems. Demonstrated experience owning delivery of production AI/ML systems, platform capabilities, or deployment workstreams across ambiguous requirements and multiple stakeholders. Experience designing, deploying, or operating Kubernetes-based MLOps pipelines, model training and inference workflows, or data-processing systems in GPU-backed environments. Demonstrated ability to debug complex deployment issues across infrastructure, containers, networking, security controls, and application runtime behavior. Strong written and verbal communication skills with customer engineering teams, internal product groups, and peer engineers. U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Secret or Top Secret clearance. …

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