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Standard Job Description
Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 114,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services. Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (MFC) is one of four Lockheed Martin business areas.
We are seeking an experienced Electrical Test Engineer to design, develop, and support Automated Test Equipment (ATE) and Test Program Sets (TPS) for sensor and missile systems. This role focuses on creating robust test solutions that ensure product performance, reliability, and producibility from development through production and sustainment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, integrate, and validate Automated Test Equipment (ATE) hardware and software for missile and sensor products.
- Develop, debug, and maintain Test Program Sets (TPS), including test executives, instrument drivers, and measurement algorithms.
- Translate system, subsystem, and component requirements into comprehensive test strategies, acceptance test procedures, and production test solutions.
- Select, configure, and integrate commercial and custom instrumentation (e.g., oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, power supplies, RF sources, switching matrices, data acquisition systems).
- Create and maintain test software using industry-standard environments (LabVIEW, TestStand, C/C++, Python, or equivalent).
- Support production test operations, including troubleshooting test failures, root-cause analysis, yield improvement, and process optimization.
- Interface with design engineering, manufacturing, quality, and systems engineering teams to ensure testability is designed into products.
- Generate and maintain technical documentation (test plans, procedures, TPS documentation, hardware/software configuration baselines).
- Participate in design reviews, test readiness reviews, and failure review boards.
- Support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), environmental, and system-level testing as required.
- Ensure compliance with applicable military standards, quality systems, and configuration management processes.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 5+ Years developing and supporting Automated Test Equipment (ATE)
- Experience developing and debugging test software (LabVIEW, TestStand, C#, C++, Python)
- Requires the ability to obtain a secret clearance so you must be a US Citizen.
Desired Skills
- Certified LabVIEW Developer or Architect
- Experience designing ATE and Interface Test Adapters (ITAs) utilizing mass interconnects (Virgina Panel Corp (VPC), MAC Panel)
- Familiarity with NI PXI Products
- Experience with version control (Git) or structured software development practice
- Experience with Agentic Coding for ATE
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $104900.00 - $194700.00
At Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow—both professionally and personally.
The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed 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(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (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.
Standard Job Description
Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 114,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services. Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (MFC) is one of four Lockheed Martin business areas.
We are seeking an experienced Electrical Test Engineer to design, develop, and support Automated Test Equipment (ATE) and Test Program Sets (TPS) for sensor and missile systems. This role focuses on creating robust test solutions that ensure product performance, reliability, and producibility from development through production and sustainment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, integrate, and validate Automated Test Equipment (ATE) hardware and software for missile and sensor products.
- Develop, debug, and maintain Test Program Sets (TPS), including test executives, instrument drivers, and measurement algorithms.
- Translate system, subsystem, and component requirements into comprehensive test strategies, acceptance test procedures, and production test solutions.
- Select, configure, and integrate commercial and custom instrumentation (e.g., oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, power supplies, RF sources, switching matrices, data acquisition systems).
- Create and maintain test software using industry-standard environments (LabVIEW, TestStand, C/C++, Python, or equivalent).
- Support production test operations, including troubleshooting test failures, root-cause analysis, yield improvement, and process optimization.
- Interface with design engineering, manufacturing, quality, and systems engineering teams to ensure testability is designed into products.
- Generate and maintain technical documentation (test plans, procedures, TPS documentation, hardware/software configuration baselines).
- Participate in design reviews, test readiness reviews, and failure review boards.
- Support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), environmental, and system-level testing as required.
- Ensure compliance with applicable military standards, quality systems, and configuration management processes.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 5+ Years developing and supporting Automated Test Equipment (ATE)
- Experience developing and debugging test software (LabVIEW, TestStand, C#, C++, Python)
- Requires the ability to obtain a secret clearance so you must be a US Citizen.
Desired Skills
- Certified LabVIEW Developer or Architect
- Experience designing ATE and Interface Test Adapters (ITAs) utilizing mass interconnects (Virgina Panel Corp (VPC), MAC Panel)
- Familiarity with NI PXI Products
- Experience with version control (Git) or structured software development practice
- Experience with Agentic Coding for ATE
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $104900.00 - $194700.00
At Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow—both professionally and personally.
The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed 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(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (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.
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Who's Hiring
- Northrop Grumman20
- Shield12
- Lockheed Martin11
- Tesla8
- Qualcomm8
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software10
- Electronics & Hardware10
- Telecommunications4
- Aerospace & Defense4
- Manufacturing3
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in staff test engineer jobs.
- 5 or more years of hands-on software test engineering experience with automation
- Proficiency in at least one test automation framework such as Selenium, pytest, or Cypress
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated test execution
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical field
- Demonstrated ability to lead test strategy across multiple teams or product areas
- Familiarity with performance, load, or reliability testing tools and methodologies
Tips for Your Staff Test Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to the testing stack
Staff-level postings expect fluency in specific frameworks like Selenium, pytest, or Robot Framework. List the exact tools named in each job description alongside your measurable outcomes, not just generic testing experience, so your resume clears automated screening.
Highlight cross-functional ownership on your resume
Staff engineers are expected to influence product and dev teams, not just execute test plans. Describe moments when you defined a testing strategy, drove a quality initiative, or unblocked a release, because reviewers want evidence of scope beyond individual contributor work.
Target postings by domain specialty, not just title
A staff test engineer role at a chip company expects very different depth than one at a SaaS startup. Search by industry alongside the title so you find openings where your domain knowledge, whether embedded, cloud, or hardware, is a direct match.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists staff test engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a system design answer for test infrastructure
Staff-level interviews almost always include a scenario where you design a test infrastructure from scratch or scale an existing one. Practice explaining CI/CD integration, parallelization tradeoffs, and flakiness reduction before your first screen.
Negotiate scope and charter, not just compensation
When you receive an offer, ask explicitly about team size, testing ownership boundaries, and whether a formal test strategy exists. Staff engineers who clarify these before accepting avoid situations where the role is effectively a senior engineer title with no real influence.
Staff Test Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most staff test engineers?
The companies hiring the most staff test engineers right now include Northrop Grumman, Shield, and Lockheed Martin, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Massachusetts, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is highest at companies with complex hardware-software products or large-scale distributed systems.
How many staff test engineer jobs are remote?
About 48% of staff test engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though on-site roles remain common in hardware, semiconductor, and embedded systems testing. Pure software automation and cloud quality roles are the most likely to offer full or partial remote flexibility.
How do you become a staff test engineer?
Start by building deep expertise in test automation and CI/CD integration as a senior engineer, then take on cross-team quality initiatives that demonstrate strategic thinking. Getting to staff level typically requires owning a testing charter end to end, mentoring other engineers, and influencing how the broader organization approaches quality, not just executing tests assigned to you.
Can you get hired as a staff test engineer with little experience?
Direct promotion to staff is uncommon without meaningful senior-level experience, but you can build a competitive profile by contributing to open-source test frameworks, taking ownership of an automation suite at your current company, and documenting the business impact of your quality work. Some companies also hire engineers at the high end of senior who transition into staff roles within the first year.
What does the staff test engineer interview process look like?
The process typically involves a recruiter screen, a technical phone interview covering automation and testing concepts, and a multi-stage virtual onsite with rounds focused on system design for test infrastructure, coding exercises in a scripting language, and a cross-functional or behavioral round. Some companies add a take-home where you evaluate or extend an existing test suite.
Where can I find and apply to staff test engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to staff test engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing without leaving the platform.
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