Focus Area Manager

Who We Are

Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) is chartered with creating generation-after-next technology to help Lockheed Martin maintain technology dominance. As a group of applied research laboratories, we are professionals who develop and apply leading edge technologies to our customers’ most difficult problems and needs. Our researchers work closely with customers to create and shape opportunities and are skilled in applying emerging research to evolving programs. Our agile business structure is designed to swiftly respond to urgent needs. Our primary partners include other Lockheed Martin business and research organizations, government agencies like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and government service laboratories, and commercial enterprises. ATL maintains research and development relationships with government agencies, key universities, industry partners and thought leaders.

What Our Team Does

This position is within the Intelligent Systems Works (ISW), which is one of the three laboratories that comprise ATL. We are creating technologies that will accelerate the multi-domain hybrid existence of human and machine intelligence to support DoD and IC missions. By combining key technology R&D pillars – human-machine symbiosis, AI/ML-based algorithm and model development, autonomy adapted to missions and domains, and high assurance solutions – under one group, the ISW designs, develops/prototypes and evaluates solutions supporting future, complex warfighter missions. Some of these missions include BMC2 planning and Course of Action development, Information Ops (sentiment and influence), and Resilience and Assurance in autonomy.

What You Will Do

The selected candidate will be a significant R&D technology leader for ISW in the area of trusted AI. The primary focus of the position is to implement ISW strategy by leading technology and R&D funding pursuits, program execution, and solution transfer while simultaneously leading and shaping a team of direct reports to that same end. The candidate will formulate strategy and evaluation including providing guidance to a highly skilled team of technologists for achieving maximum effectiveness in landing, executing, and leveraging internal and external R&D contracts to achieve mission impact.

The Selected Candidate Will

• Have a strong technical background in one or more of the following: Neuro-Symbolic AI, Formal Methods, Automated Reasoning, and Generative AI.
• Lead a team of direct technologist reports while performing administrative L-code duties as well as identifying and shaping career growth opportunities through training and coordination of project assignments.
• Develop and foster strategy-focused R&D funding opportunities in topics that are relevant to ISW.
• Lead the development of new applied research for both internal and external projects, working in collaboration with LM ATL colleagues and world-class academic researchers, national labs, and other advanced technology organizations.
• Advance the state of the art by developing and demonstrating new technologies in relevant operational environments as team lead and as key contributor to project teams.
• Engage with the wider research community, understand emerging trends in technologies, and create the vision to enable development of discriminating capabilities for LM ATL.
  
  

The selected candidate will also have demonstrable experience leading complex R&D projects, and will be a highly motivated individual with an entrepreneurial mindset and a record of leading successful proposals and execution of contract R&D (CRAD) with U.S. government agencies and/or commercial organizations.