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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.\nWe 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.\nPosition Summary\nThe Electrical Engineering - Technical Fellow serves as a division-level technical leader within Trident Systems’ Space Electronic Systems (SES) division, responsible for architecting, developing, and guiding high-performance space computer and embedded hardware solutions for space and defense applications. This role provides deep, recognized subject matter expertise across the full space hardware development lifecycle, including power systems, internal spacecraft charging, radiation effects, and high-speed signaling-from requirements definition through design, integration, test, delivery, and on-orbit support-while ensuring designs meet stringent performance, reliability, and radiation-mitigation requirements. The Senior Principal Electrical Engineer partners closely with cross-functional engineering teams, executive and program leadership, and customers to solve complex technical challenges, support program execution and business development efforts, and set the long-term technology roadmap and technical strategy for the organization. As the division’s senior-most individual-contributor technical authority, the Senior Principal Electrical Engineer holds final design review and sign-off authority on complex, high-risk, or first-of-kind embedded hardware and space computer efforts, and mentors Principal-level engineers across the discipline.\nDuties and Responsibilities\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship for discipline engineers, including Principal-level staff\nSubject matter expert for space electronics hardware engineering discipline, including power systems, internal spacecraft charging, radiation effects, and high-speed signaling; serves as final technical review and sign-off authority on complex, high-risk, or first-of-kind designs, ensuring designs meet Trident engineering standards prior to release\nArchitect and lead the space computer hardware development process: requirements specification, characterization, simulation, high-speed digital and SerDes design (>10 Gbps), signal and power integrity, power system design, radiation-effects mitigation, signal processing, schematic capture, PCB layout and routing, PCA testing, and system integration\nSet the architecture for high-performance space computers, balancing processing performance, memory, interconnect, power, thermal, SWaP, reliability, and radiation tolerance\nServe as the cognizant engineer for the power system across the hardware stack - power architecture, radiation-tolerant conversion and regulation, sequencing, protection, power integrity, and spacecraft bus interfaces - guiding design decisions, reviewing analyses and test results, and approving the design at each gate.\nEstablish and enforce design practices for internal spacecraft charging mitigation, grounding, and EMI/EMC\nManage radiation effects analysis and mitigation (TID, SEE, displacement damage), including radiation hardness assurance, parts selection and test strategy, and fault-tolerant design (e.g., EDAC, scrubbing, redundancy)\nLead high-speed signaling design and analysis: SerDes links (>10 Gbps), channel modeling, signal integrity, jitter budgeting, and protocol implementation\nChair design and peer reviews of design work and documentation, including PDR, CDR, and TRR milestones\nProvide technical direction to discipline team, other engineering teams, PMO, EGD and VP\nProvide hands-on technical leadership to programs as needed based on severity of resource demand and challenge of design, including design recovery and anomaly investigation\nLead technical strategy and solution architecture for business development efforts, including proposals and capture\nRepresent Trident Systems Engineering with customer, vendor, and industry interface as a recognized subject matter expert\nDefine and drive the ES technology roadmap and IRAD investment priorities by identifying goals for department and plans for execution\nAbility to support travel or off-site work, as needed. \nPerform other duties as assigned. \nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related technical degree\nDemonstrated experience serving as final technical design authority / sign-off for complex or first-of-kind space flight hardware programs\n15+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree OR 13+ years with a Master’s degree OR 10+ years with a doctorate, including at least 8 years designing space or aerospace electronics\nExperience with mixed-signal PCA development, utilizing High Density Interconnect (HDI) PCBs and high speed (> 10 GHz) and serial (SerDes) components/circuits operating at >10 Gbps\nExperience with FPGA and microprocessor development, including hardware descriptor languages (i.e. Verilog, VHDL)\nExperience with hardware integration, test, and debug tools such as logic analyzers, scopes, emulators\nDemonstrated experience implementing PCIe, VME, or VPX standards (VITA 46, VITA 65, VITA 78)\nExperience leading formal hardware design review milestones (e.g., PDR, CDR, TRR) for complex or first-of-kind programs\nDemonstrated experience designing and delivering electronic hardware for space flight applications, including at least one design operating on orbit\nDemonstrated experience designing space power systems, including power architecture, radiation-tolerant DC-DC conversion and regulation, sequencing, protection, and power integrity\nDemonstrated experience mitigating internal spacecraft charging and discharge effects, including shielding, grounding, and bonding practices (e.g., NASA-HDBK-4002)\nDemonstrated experience analyzing and mitigating space radiation effects (TID, SEE including SEU/SEL/SET, and displacement damage), including radiation hardness assurance and fault-tolerant architecture (e.g., EDAC, scrubbing, redundancy)\nDemonstrated experience with high-speed serial signaling (SerDes links >10 Gbps; e.g., PCIe, SpaceFibre, high-speed Ethernet), including signal integrity, channel modeling, and jitter budgeting\nDemonstrated experience architecting high-performance space computers or processing systems (processor/FPGA/SoC, memory, interconnect), balancing performance, SWaP, thermal, and reliability\nExperience qualifying hardware designs for extreme environments (TVAC, shock, vibration) and EMI/EMC compliance\nDemonstrated ability to technically lead and mentor senior engineers and to influence customers, executive leadership, and industry\nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster’s degree or doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field\nExperience with radiation test campaigns (heavy ion, proton, TID) and with COTS/NewSpace parts up-screening for radiation-tolerant architectures\nExperience with on-orbit anomaly investigation and resolution\nRecognized external technical leadership, such as patents, publications, standards or industry working-group participation, or Fellow-level recognition\nPay Information\nFull-Time Salary Range: $163,000 - $269,000\nPlease 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.\nBenefits\nHired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to:\nHealth benefitsMedical \nDental \nVision\nBasic life with AD&D\nShort term disability\nLong term disability\nAncillary (Voluntary life with AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital, and pet)\nSpending accounts (HSA, FSA, and DCFSA)\n\nPaid time off\nHolidays\n401(k) (including company match)\nTuition reimbursement\nLeaves (Parental, maternity, and military)\nAnnual discretionary bonus (for eligible roles)\n\nTrident Systems reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position. \nTrident Solutions is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. 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