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Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by NikolaeVarius »

7952 wrote: post #60
chrisco255 wrote: post #45

Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical focus. • Experience in COMM and Navigation. • Avionics experience • Experience with aircraft operations. • Microsoft Office I love the MS Office req at the end. "Yes, we see you've got a BS in engineering, you're an expert at avionics and COMM control systems, but do you know anything about MS Word?"

I don't see much point in asking for an office package in a job advert. But a lot of jobs do require use of these packages and the level of skill can be terrible in otherwise highly trained people. If you use the apps a lot you should learn how to use them properly, and a lot of people just can't be bothered.

Knowing word and excel REALLY well brings tons of value in the Aero industry. There is a reason that, in general, excel runs the world.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by akiselev »

adrianN wrote: post #67
tirpen wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For airplanes flying at high altitudes with modern computers, random bit flips from comsmic radiation is actually a very real threat that has to be considered. IIRC there's about a factor of about 300x more radiation at 30000 ft and 900x at 60000 ft. Core memory is a lot less sensitive to this than most memory types, so it makes some sense to store the most flight critical data in such a memory.

The sensible way to deal with bit flips is a gratuitous amount of ECC.

ECC doesn't help when you have an EMP caused by an atmospheric nuclear detonation. Those are the kinds of things the design has to consider.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by CapricornNoble »

chrisco255 wrote: post #45

Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical focus. • Experience in COMM and Navigation. • Avionics experience • Experience with aircraft operations. • Microsoft Office I love the MS Office req at the end. "Yes, we see you've got a BS in engineering, you're an expert at avionics and COMM control systems, but do you know anything about MS Word?"

I actually had a phone interview (for a government-contract IT support position....basic call center/help desk type stuff, I just needed a job) that went pretty much just like that.

I explained to the recruiter "while working on my Masters I did some General-Purpose GPU coding using CUDA, as well as software-defined radio systems using GNU Radio". I could tell she had no clue what any of that meant. She then asked me to revise and resubmit my resume because it didn't list 6 years of experience with MS Office. -_-

EDIT: My resume had my experience as a commissioned officer on it, and any DoD recruiter worth a damn should know that all officers are Black Belts in PowerPoint Slideology.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by Spooky23 »

dvdbloc wrote: post #47
metaphor wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hope you're prepared to swallow; I can think of several dozen young engineers across 5 states (California, Indiana, Florida, North Carolina, and New Jersey) with VAX/OpenVMS domain expertise, myself included. Legacy systems with 30-year lifecycles are a thing...they're just not what most of commercial industry is accustomed to supporting. If you think LM would have an issue filling this position internally (for the r…

So a couple of the comments here have been mentioning the high pay of people with specialties like this in the context of LM and other defense contractors. My impression from Glassdoor and general conversation with software developers has been the DCs pay pretty low for software in general compared to FAANG or even other engineering companies. Is it true that people with obscure specialties at places like LM can comm…

I don’t work in the space or DC, but have worked with people who are in this industry. It’s a career job usually, and many of these folks work in out of the way places. If you’re pulling down $120k in some suburb of Omaha, you’re doing very well.

The career path and security is important as well. A FAANG won’t hire a 45 year old technical SME.

There’s also an academic/industry connection. You may wear multiple hats if you're affiliated with the university, a lab, or a company. I met at least one person who was a professor at a major school, did work at a sponsored lab or think tank (ie. MITRE, RAND Corp, etc), and did some work over a sabbatical for a big name-brand defense contractor.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by gibspaulding »

hestefisk wrote: post #81
nabla9 wrote: post #73

Modern is relative. F-22's first flight was 1997. F-35 development started in 1992, first flight of X-35 was 2000 and F-35's first flight was 2006. There is absolutely noting wrong with using old technology. Being modern just for the sake of being modern is wasteful.

No Microservices, no Kubernetes. Lame.

Think how much money we could make back selling skins for the control interfaces to pilots!

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by roedog »

chrisco255 wrote: post #45

Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical focus. • Experience in COMM and Navigation. • Avionics experience • Experience with aircraft operations. • Microsoft Office I love the MS Office req at the end. "Yes, we see you've got a BS in engineering, you're an expert at avionics and COMM control systems, but do you know anything about MS Word?"

It indicates that writing and editing thousands of pages of documentation will be contractually required. Word proficiency can save a lot of pain for everyone on that team.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by keeganjw »

nabla9 wrote: post #73

Modern is relative. F-22's first flight was 1997. F-35 development started in 1992, first flight of X-35 was 2000 and F-35's first flight was 2006. There is absolutely noting wrong with using old technology. Being modern just for the sake of being modern is wasteful.

The F-35? Being wasteful? They wouldn't dare...

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by oldsklgdfth »

I had a job maintaining fortran code on an openVMS OS running on itanium hardware.

Itanium was intel's failed attempt at a 64bit architecture and that's the platform VMS decided to port to. That made hardware expensive and as of recently obsolete (i think hp discontinued that integrity line of servers)

VMS doesn't natively support TCP/IP, because it predates it. The VMS communication protocol was called decnet. So you can imagine that porting vms-specific fortran code to work on a modern network stack was non trivial.

Also, everyone with VMS knowledge was a hacker. No real design or plan, just go in an change a thing here and a thing there and get it working.

All that being said, it was interesting to work on an OS that is so different from linux, specifically the file system had versioning.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by joncrane »

bigiain wrote: post #44
proy24 wrote: post #13

I think all engineers with VAX experience are extinct ...or retired.

Or very much not admitting to it ever. Like their Cobol experience. cough (I write Pascal for an obsolete VAX11/780 in around 1985... I wrote COBOL in a WANG VS in the mid 1990s. No _way_ am I ever gonna let recruiters or employers know any of that...)

One day you might respond to an ad like this but insist on a corp-to-corp and/or 1099 arrangement and charge $350 per hour.

If you have the right specialty, attitude, and connections in Federal Government contracting, you can make FAANG money. Only with good w/l balance.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by ngcc_hk »

0xfaded wrote: post #91
cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I see you're trying to shoot down an Irani F-14. Would you like help with that?" [Yes] [No] [Cancel]

Such a beautiful warbird, and such a shame they were all cut to pieces just to cut Iran off from black market parts.

Tomcat. Still remember the detail description of it in 1960s read digest and then top gun. But it is very hard to fly. A lot of Taiwanese pilot die.
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