Principal Electrical Design Engineer - Compute

Position Summary

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• 8 Minimum of 9 years of experience designing complex electrical or electronic hardware.
• Demonstrated ownership of board-level electrical designs from concept and architecture through schematic capture, layout, fabrication, bring-up, and verification.
• Strong experience with digital circuit design involving processors, microcontrollers, FPGAs, memory, or similar complex devices.
• Experience designing high-speed digital interfaces such as DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, LVDS, or comparable interfaces.
• Experience performing or interpreting signal-integrity and power-integrity analyses.
• Experience with electrical design analysis including worst-case analysis, component derating, tolerance analysis, power analysis, or similar design-verification methods.
• Experience with power architecture, power sequencing, DC/DC conversion, point-of-load regulation, and power-distribution considerations for complex digital electronics.
• Proficiency with electrical schematic capture and PCB design tools such as Altium Designer, Cadence/OrCAD, Siemens/Mentor, or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up and troubleshooting using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DMMs, power supplies, protocol analyzers, and other laboratory equipment.
• Ability to independently evaluate complex technical problems, develop engineering solutions, and communicate technical rationale through analysis and design documentation.
• Ability to lead technical design reviews and provide technical guidance to other engineers.
• Strong written and verbal technical communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing electronics for spacecraft, launch vehicles, missiles, defense systems, avionics, or other high-reliability applications.
• Experience designing radiation-tolerant or radiation-effects-mitigated electronics for space environments.
• Familiarity with radiation effects including TID, SEE, SEU, SET, SEL, and mitigation approaches at the component, circuit, and system levels.
• Experience with radiation testing, radiation-effects analysis, or selection and qualification of components for radiation environments.
• Experience with high-performance embedded processors, FPGAs, SoCs, or heterogeneous computing architectures.
• Experience designing DDR3/DDR4/DDR5 memory interfaces, PCIe, Gigabit Ethernet, high-speed serial transceivers, SpaceWire, CAN, RS-422/485, or similar interfaces.
• Experience with SI/PI simulation tools such as HyperLynx, Cadence Sigrity, Ansys SIwave, Keysight ADS or equivalent.
• Experience developing or reviewing PCB stack-ups, impedance requirements, routing constraints, and layout guidelines for high-speed electronics.
• Experience with EMI/EMC design practices, grounding, shielding, filtering, and noise mitigation.
• Experience with aerospace electrical design standards, parts control, component derating, reliability analysis, and high-reliability manufacturing practices.
• Familiarity with environmental qualification standards and test methods applicable to aerospace electronics.
• Experience supporting qualification, acceptance, and production testing of flight electronics.
• Experience with VPX, SpaceVPX, VITA standards, or other modular embedded computing architectures.
• Experience with schematic and PCB design for compact, high-density, SWaP-constrained electronics.
• Familiarity with FPGA and embedded software development sufficient to collaborate effectively across hardware, firmware, and software disciplines.
• Experience supporting technical proposals, customer design reviews, or new product development programs.

Pay Information

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)
• 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.
• Trident Systems is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact recruiting@tridsys.com .
• Pay Transparency: The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)