Principal Electrical Engineer

About the role

Located in Melbourne, Florida (hybrid). Reports to Senior Manager, Electrical Engineering. Does not supervise others. 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage engineering discipline personnel
• Serve as 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

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related technical degree
• 9+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree OR 7+ years with a Master’s 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

• 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)