Program Chief Engineer

Position Title:Program Chief Engineer
Requisition ID:1836
Position Location:Fairfax VA
Position Reports To:Technical Fellow
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 Program Chief Engineer is the programs technical leader responsible for ensuring the system is designed integrated tested and delivered to meet all technical cost and schedule commitments. This role provides day to day engineering direction drives key technical decisions and ensures alignment with product strategy and engineering standards. Success in this role is reflected in predictable engineering execution early and proactive risk management strong cross team alignment and delivery of a fully verified technically compliant solution that meets customer and program objectives for mission critical space software defined systems.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead all technical aspects of the program and serve as the primary technical point of contact.
• Drive requirements development system integration and verification activities.
• Manage technical risks and issues with timely actionable mitigation plans.
• Prepare and conduct engineering reviews and support customer technical discussions.
• Lead customer-facing Program Reviews including System Requirement Review (SRR) Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Critical Design Reviews (CDR).
• Ensure engineering execution supports overall program cost schedule and performance goals.
• Coordinate with engineering functional teams on staffing standards and engineering processes.
• Provide clear communication of technical status to program and engineering leadership.
• Ability to support travel or off-site work as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 12 years of engineering experience (OR 10 years with a graduate degree) with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Experience in delivering aerospace defense communications or other mission critical hardware systems.
• Background in project engineering systems engineering integration and verification.
• Experience supporting or leading complex development programs.
• Strong communication planning and problem-solving skills.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering radiation mitigated and fault tolerant software-defined or reconfigurable processing architectures.
• Experience in high-rate production operations enterprises.
• Background in rad-hard processors FPGA architectures GPUs or SDRs.
• Background in cyber security including secure boot cryptography or hardened OS.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $129000 - $240000

Please Note: Actual compensation offered will be determined based on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience skills education certifications internal equity business considerations and geographic location where applicable.

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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