Principal Systems Engineer

Position Title

Principal Systems Engineer 

Requisition ID

[TBD by HR]

Home Office Location

Concord, NH or Fairfax, VA

FLSA Designation

Exempt

Hybrid/Remote Option

Hybrid

EEO Job Category

Professionals

Position Reports To

Director, Systems Engineering

Pay Range

DOE

Supervises Others

No

FTE

1.0

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

We are seeking a talented, self-motivated, and experienced Principal Systems Engineer with demonstrated success in leading engineering teams to develop and deliver new and/or improved products that meet requirements on time and within budget. The Principal Systems Engineer provides systems engineering methodology expertise across R&D and product development programs, is a key participant in establishing technology and product roadmaps, and contributes to business opportunities of strategic importance. 

The Principal Systems Engineer works collaboratively with program managers to ensure successful program execution and is responsible for guiding program teams to solving problems through a wholistic, systems engineering approach. This position requires expert technical capability and communication skill, effective forward thinking to take advantage of opportunities and prevent issues, and ability to work with engineering leadership towards growing an effective engineering organization. To be successful in this role, the individual should possess technical depth to perform deep-dive analysis and apply properly tailored systems engineering process, as well as technical breadth to work through complex issues across disciplines (e.g. mechanical, electrical, software, and firmware). This individual is able to work autonomously with only high-level objectives to be effective, is able to work on problems of diverse complexity and scope, and demonstrates expert engineering judgement. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead a diverse engineering team in the development of advanced multi-function RF, processing, networking, and/or data storage units for space applications using systems engineering methodology
• Collaborate with program management to lead program planning and execution within cost and schedule constraints
• Own the engineering process on the program and ensure the proper systems analysis and trades, technical baseline management, and requirements verification and validation activities are completed
• Work with engineering discipline leads to assign appropriate staff to programs
• Act as the program technical champion / representative / POC 
• Prepare for, and present at all major design reviews, including internal and external (customer) reviews
• Provide technical expertise in planning for IR&D and new product initiatives
• Support proposal efforts for new business opportunities 
• Support travel or off-site work, as needed 
• Perform other duties as assigned. 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) field
• 9+ years of experience including 3+ years’ experience as a technical project lead 
• Highly accomplished in engineering or scientific domain(s) of expertise
• Fluent in multiple relevant technical/scientific domains and can work through complex issues across engineering disciplines
• Experience with complex electronics product design at low level of integration, e.g. PCBAs, mechanical structures, mission software, FPGA firmware, etc.
• Experience with Xilinx family devices, including Zynq UltraScale+ or Versal architecture 
• Knowledge of VPX standards (VITA 46 and VITA 65) and demonstrated experience implementing in embedded hardware  
• Proficient in application of sys