Principal Electrical Engineer

Position Title:Principal Electrical Engineer
Requisition ID: 1701
Position Location:Fairfax VA
Position Reports To:Senior Manager Electrical Engineering
Supervises Others:No

At Trident Systems Space Electronic Systems (SES) division we believe in the power of using strong engineering principles to drive innovation and solve complex problems. We foster a culture of rigorous engineering and continuous improvement leveraging the full knowledge of our organization through collaborative product development processes that include design and peer reviews. We combine our expertise in space electronics with right-sized development processes to create innovative high-performance space-based electronic systems that meet our customers evolving needs.

We are a mission partner supporting DoD Intelligence Community and Civil space customers. We develop complex radiation effects mitigated designs that balance competing requirements in modern space programs delivering cutting-edge solutions that enable our customers to achieve more in space.

Position Summary

The Principal Electrical Engineer serves as a senior technical leader within Trident Systems Space Electronic Systems (SES) division responsible for architecting developing and guiding advanced embedded hardware solutions for space and defense applications. This role provides deep subject matter expertise across the full hardware development lifecyclefrom requirements definition through design integration test and deliverywhile ensuring designs meet stringent performance reliability and radiation-mitigation requirements. The Principal Hardware Engineer partners closely with cross-functional engineering teams program leadership and customers to solve complex technical challenges support program execution and business development efforts and shape the long-term technology roadmap for the organization.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage engineering discipline personnel
• Subject matter expert for embedded hardware engineering discipline
• Lead embedded hardware development process: requirements specification characterization simulation high-speed digital design signal processing schematic capture PCB layout and routing PCA testing and system integration
• Conduct peer reviews of design work and documentation
• Provide technical guidance to discipline team other engineering teams PMO EGD and VP
• Support project execution as needed based on severity of resource demand and challenge of design
• Cost Account Management
• Support business development efforts
• Represent Trident Systems Engineering with customer and vendor interface as a subject matter expert
• Support ES technology roadmap by identifying goals for department and plans for execution
• Ability to support travel or off-site work as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related technical degree
• 9 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree OR 7 years with a Masters degree
• Experience with mixed-signal PCA development utilizing High Density Interconnect (HDI) PCBs and high speed (> 1 GHz) components/circuits
• Experience with FPGA and microprocessor development including hardware descriptor languages (i.e. Verilog VHDL)
• Experience with hardware integration test and debug tools such as logic analyzers scopes emulators
• Demonstrated experience implementing PCI PCIe cPCI VME or VPX standards (VITA 46 VITA 65)

Benefits

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to:

• Health benefits
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic life with AD&D
• Short-term disability
• Long term disability
• Ancillary (Voluntary life with AD&D accident critical illness hospital and pet)
• Spending accounts (HSA FSA and DCFSA)
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• 401(k) (including company match)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leaves (Parental maternity and military)
• Annual discretionary bonus (for eligible roles)

Trident Systems reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

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