Product Engineer

About the role

The Product Engineer serves as a technical execution and integration lead within Trident’s ICS Business Unit, responsible for translating product and engineering leadership guidance into coordinated, actionable work across lab-based development efforts. This role bridges systems engineering, product management, and hands-on development by ensuring that engineering activities remain aligned, synchronized, and progress efficiently across multiple product lines, primarily within Predictive Maintenance & Logistics (PM&L) and Multi-Domain Communications (MDC) portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Drive translation of high-level product and engineering guidance into actionable technical direction for relevant lab and engineering personnel
• Coordinate day-to-day lab activities to ensure alignment across hardware, software, and integration efforts
• Maintain awareness of ongoing development work and proactively identify gaps, conflicts, and integration risks
• Develop and communicate initial design concepts including cable assemblies, pinouts, enclosure layouts, and system interconnects using standard tools (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Provide clear, structured guidance to engineers to enable efficient execution of detailed designs and implementations
• Ensure system-level integration across subsystems remains cohesive and aligned with overall architecture intent
• Support rapid prototyping and iterative development cycles by clarifying requirements and reducing execution ambiguity
• Collaborate with engineering managers to align technical priorities with available resources and ongoing work
• Track progress of key development activities and elevate risks or blockers to leadership as needed
• Document integration approaches, design concepts, and technical decisions in formats usable by engineering teams
• Participate in design discussions, technical interchange meetings, and internal reviews to ensure alignment across efforts
• Support system bring-up, integration validation, and lab-based testing activities
• Assist with preparation for demonstrations or field activities as required

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of related experience OR 4+ years with a Master’s degree (10+ years in lieu of a bachelor’s degree)
• Experience in systems engineering, product development, or technical integration roles
• Experience working in lab-based development and integration environments
• Demonstrated ability to translate high-level technical direction into actionable engineering guidance
• Experience developing conceptual or integration-level designs (e.g., cable definitions, layouts, system diagrams)
• Proficiency with standard Microsoft tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.)
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary systems (hardware, embedded systems, communications, and integration)
• Ability to operate independently, prioritize work, and maintain situational awareness across multiple efforts
• Strong communication skills across engineering and leadership teams

Qualifications

• Preferred: Experience working across multiple product lines or technical domains
• Familiarity with C4ISR systems, tactical communications, and/or vehicle-based platforms
• Experience supporting rapid prototyping or iterative hardware/software development environments
• Exposure to system integration, test, and verification processes
• Experience working in DoD or defense-related programs
• Familiarity with basic mechanical or electrical design concepts sufficient to communicate integration intent
• Experience supporting internal lab builds, system bring-up, or integration events

Skills

• Strong situational awareness of ongoing work
• Ability to reduce ambiguity
• Ability to translate high level direction into discrete tasking to realize business unit priorities

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 automatic company contribution)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leaves (Parental, pregnancy, and military)
• Potential annual bonus