Electrical Engineering - Technical Fellow

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Full Time Employee Full-Time Fairfax, VA, US

3 days ago Requisition

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Position Title:Electrical Engineering
- Technical Fellow
Requisition : 1890
Position Location:Fairfax, VA
Position

Reports To:

Senior Director, Hardware Engineering
Supervises Others
:
No (technical leadership across matrixed teams)

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

The 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.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship for discipline engineers, including Principal-level staff
• Subject 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
• Architect and lead the space computer hardware development process: requirements specification, characterization, simulation, high-speed digital and Ser Des 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
• Set the architecture for high-performance space computers, balancing processing performance, memory, interconnect, power, thermal, SWaP, reliability, and radiation…