Lockheed Martin is deploying a part-time, highly cleared engineering and operations consultant to its New York facility. Defense contracting at the tier-one level requires surviving the DoD acquisition gauntlet. You are not deployed to build initial CAD models; you act as the internal “Red Team” mandated to audit electronic warfare architectures, identify critical vulnerabilities, and rectify the physics before the hardware fails MIL-SPEC testing. This is a high-liability audit role designed to salvage high-value government bids.
SCIF Confinement & Red Team Authority
Advising on Top Secret aerospace portfolios requires complete physical isolation. You will operate strictly within a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility)—prohibiting cell phones, smartwatches, and outside contact. In exchange for this operational friction, you wield absolute technical authority. You serve as the independent auditor responsible for interrogating internal engineering teams and ensuring their avionics systems can survive the environmental and electromagnetic realities of the modern battlefield.
Technical Execution & Triage
- Red Team Interrogation: Pressure-test complex avionics and EW architectures. You must actively hunt for critical vulnerabilities and single points of failure in the schematics before the company commits capital to physical prototyping.
- DoD Capture Defense: Audit the engineering narratives on high-value government bids. If the cost-to-build estimates or technical claims are mathematically unsound, you must flag them before the DoD rejects the proposal.
- MIL-STD Enforcement: Enforce uncompromising compliance with MIL-STD environmental and EMI testing. The hardware must survive extreme g-forces and electronic jamming, not merely pass a digital simulation.
- Supply Chain Triage: Identify ITAR-restricted bottlenecks. An advanced radar design is functionally useless if it relies on rare-earth materials that are embargoed or unavailable in the defense supply chain.
- Executive Translation: Strip the dense MBSE jargon from your findings and deliver direct, actionable intelligence to non-technical military stakeholders and Lockheed executives.
Senior Engineering Prerequisites
- The Security Mandate: An active DoD Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance is an absolute requirement. Do not apply if your clearance has lapsed. This barrier to entry guarantees the high hourly rate.
- Decades of Scar Tissue: 15+ years of hardened experience in radar, EW, or aerospace hardware. You require the institutional weight to inform a Lead Engineer that their system design is fundamentally flawed.
- Acquisition Fluency: Deep, practical survival skills within the DoD 5000 series acquisition lifecycle and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) frameworks.
- Academic Baseline: A Master’s or Ph.D. in Aerospace or Electrical Engineering is required to possess the mathematical authority necessary for this level of hardware audit.
Compensation & Consultant Leverage
This role offers significant geographic and professional leverage for a senior Subject Matter Expert operating in the Tri-State area.
- Base Compensation: $110.00 – $150.00 USD / Hour. Highly lucrative for a part-time deployment, allowing you to maximize income without the grind of a 50-hour corporate schedule.
- The Clearance Subsidy: Lockheed Martin absorbs the administrative cost of maintaining your TS/SCI clearance, keeping you legally employable in the classified defense sector.
- The “SME” Downshift: You wield the technical authority of a Chief Engineer, actively shaping classified defense frameworks without the burden of managing direct reports or HR administration.
- Corporate Access: Prorated benefits, clearance maintenance, and specialized travel concierge services for mandatory visits to testing facilities.
Deployment Logistics & Security Protocols
- The SCIF Confinement
- Location: New York, NY. Status: Part-Time, 100% On-Site. Remote work on Top Secret EW schematics is a federal crime. You must be physically present inside the Manhattan SCIF to legally access the data and interface with the hardware.
- Relocation Posture
- Zero relocation assistance. The firm requires a cleared operator already residing in the Tri-State area capable of immediate badging and deployment.
Green Flags
- Advantage: Clearance Maintenance: Lockheed Martin absorbs the high administrative burden and cost of maintaining your active TS/SCI clearance, preserving your primary asset for future defense consulting.
- Advantage: High-Leverage Consulting: Earning $110 to $150 per hour in a part-time capacity allows you to wield the technical authority of a Chief Engineer without the relentless schedule and administrative overhead of a full-time corporate executive.
Red Flags
- Warning Sign: Absolute SCIF Confinement: There is zero remote flexibility. You must surrender all personal electronics and operate entirely isolated from the outside world within a Manhattan SCIF for the duration of your shifts.
- Warning Sign: Adversarial Internal Dynamics: As the internal auditor (“Red Team”), your primary directive is to dismantle the work of other senior engineers and flag their failures. This inherently generates high political friction within the engineering departments.
