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Lockheed Martin’s Skunks Work Plans to Hire 500 Engineers if it Can Find Them

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018

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Lockheed Martin’s Skunks Work Plans to Hire 500 Engineers if it Can Find Them

Army Special Operations Aviation Command flies a variant of the H-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Photo: Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin's [LMT] Skunk Works advanced development division will be looking to hire 500 engineers over the next few years, and the supply simply isn't there, according to Skunk Works head and company vice president Jeff Babione.“I don’t know that there’s an engineer we wouldn’t be adding,” Babione said in a Tuesday call. he said Skunk Works will be looking to hire “50-60 engineers per month over the next several months" from "all disciplines across the math and science fields."They…

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