Verification & Validation Engineering Specialist

Lockheed Martin Australia is seeking a senior Verification & Validation Engineering Specialist to join its Verification & Validation Centre of Excellence in Mawson Lakes, on a full-time, onsite basis. Applicants must be Australian citizens and be eligible to obtain and maintain an active Australian Government Defence security clearance at the level required for the position. The role offers an opportunity to shape V&V strategy across Australia’s defence programs and to mentor engineers while collaborating with senior technical leaders.

Lockheed Martin Australia sits within the global defence technology leader, delivering ambitious programs across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. This senior specialist role sits in the Verification & Validation Centre of Excellence, where your expertise will influence verification activities, provide assurance and guide strategic decisions across multiple programs and engineering domains. It’s a fit for someone who wants to extend impact beyond a single project and help raise V&V standards across the organisation.

This role attracts those who enjoy mentoring others, partnering with customers and technical authorities, and helping build longer-term V&V capability. It requires working onsite in Mawson Lakes with colleagues across multidisciplinary teams.

Shaping verification and validation across major defence programs

As the Verification & Validation Engineering Specialist, you will act as the technical authority for V&V on complex Defence programs, guiding critical engineering and delivery choices across the lifecycle.

You will lead and assure V&V strategies, methodologies and artefacts across the full systems engineering lifecycle, setting the standard for how verification is planned and executed.

You will help resolve challenging system integration and verification problems in large System-of-Systems environments, and provide independent technical reviews across plans, governance and major milestones.

Alongside this, you will engage with senior customers, technical authorities and multidisciplinary engineering teams to secure robust outcomes and mentor others to grow capability, driving process improvements and new tools and practices.

What you’ll bring to the table

To be considered for this senior role, these core qualifications matter most:

• More than 20 years in the Defence industry with broad experience across the engineering lifecycle from requirements and architecture through integration, verification, validation and acceptance testing
• Recognised as a subject matter expert in at least one domain such as Systems Architecture, System Integration/Verification & Validation, Command & Control, Radar or Communications
• Proven ability to provide senior technical leadership and influence engineering outcomes across large-scale, complex Defence systems and multidisciplinary programs
• Strong knowledge of systems engineering, integration and V&V methodologies, with the ability to provide technical assurance and resolve highly complex engineering challenges
• A Master’s degree in Engineering or an equivalent combination of qualifications and experience
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and mentoring capability, with the ability to engage senior customers, technical authorities and engineering leaders while developing capability in others
• NV1 security clearance and the ability to handle Export Controlled information
• Proficiency in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice

Where you’ll work and what to expect

This is a full-time, onsite role based in Mawson Lakes, Australia, and it requires Australian citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Defence security clearance. An NV1 clearance and the ability to handle Export Controlled information are also required. Lockheed Martin Australia emphasises a veteran-friendly workplace and equal opportunity, and they welcome Indigenous applicants. The company is open to discussing adjustments to support successful performance in the role.

Advice for applicants

Put your strongest experience up front in your resume, emphasising more than 20 years in Defence and your SME credentials, and be clear about your citizenship and clearance status.

Back up your claims with concrete examples that show you led V&V strategies across an entire lifecycle and resolved integration challenges on large, complex systems.

Prepare to discuss how you’ve performed independent technical reviews, contributed to governance, and mentored others to raise capability in V&V across teams and programs.

Ask a smart question about the future of the Centre of Excellence, such as how Lockheed Martin Australia plans to evolve V&V methods and tooling and how AI prompting is being applied to practice there.