Jobs at Trident

Leads and develops a mechanical engineering team delivering spacecraft electronics assemblies and spaceflight hardware. Provides technical oversight across design, analysis, testing, qualification, production transition, design reviews, and failure investigations. Manages engineering resources, budgets, schedules, risks, and cross-functional collaboration while ensuring aerospace compliance and product quality. Supports customer engagements and proposals, drives process improvements, and mentors engineering talent.

Senior technical leader responsible for architecting and guiding embedded hardware for space and defense systems, covering requirements, high-speed mixed-signal PCB design, FPGA and microprocessor development, integration, test, peer reviews, customer/vendor interface, cost account management, and technology roadmap support.

Leads the mechanical engineering discipline and serves as Cognizant Mechanical Engineer and design authority for space hardware. Oversees mechanical designs, structural and thermal analyses, drawing approvals, environmental testing, engineering standards, design reviews, and process improvement. Manages staffing, hiring, performance, career development, capacity planning, and technical strategy while partnering with program and executive leadership across DoD, intelligence, and civil space programs.

Performs board-level and system-level functional, environmental, and requirements verification testing for space-based electronic systems. Develops test procedures and verification plans, operates electronic test equipment, documents results and issues, supports hardware, software, firmware, and electrical testing, and recommends process improvements. The role involves hands-on testing in an ESD production environment, collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams, and mentoring test technicians.

Develop and evaluate Python-based machine learning models using time-series telemetry and operational data. Responsibilities include data exploration, feature engineering, NLP, probabilistic and physics-informed modeling, anomaly detection, forecasting, validation, documentation, and production deployment. Collaborate with engineering, visualization, and program teams to integrate models into dashboards and decision-support tools. The role supports DoD customers and requires U.S. citizenship plus eligibility for a security clearance.

Lead execution of technically complex hardware development programs for space/defense customers, managing cost, schedule, risks, subcontractors, customer engagement, budgets, integrated schedules, and cross‑functional teams to meet contractual requirements.

Lead execution and financial control of complex aerospace engineering programs. Own budgets, track cost/schedule variances, forecast EAC, maintain IMS, translate Agile metrics to milestones, plan resources, and mitigate technical risks across hardware/software integration.

Leads and develops embedded software engineering teams across multiple programs while providing hands-on technical leadership. Responsibilities include staffing, mentoring, resource allocation, software architecture, development, integration, testing, debugging, lifecycle process improvement, estimates, schedules, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration. The role supports high-reliability hardware-integrated systems and may contribute directly to complex embedded and real-time software development.

Architect, implement, simulate, verify, and integrate high-performance FPGA designs for space-based RF, processing, networking, and data storage systems. Develop VHDL RTL and Vivado IP Integrator designs using AMD Xilinx devices, achieve timing closure, create testbenches and constraints, perform board bring-up and lab debugging, document designs, participate in reviews, collaborate across hardware and software teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Leads supply chain execution for aerospace and defense programs, managing material planning, procurement, subcontractors, suppliers, inventory, budgets, risks, and compliance. Supervises Material Program Managers and Buyers while developing strategies, processes, and organizational structures across multiple programs and IPTs. Partners with engineering, program management, finance, contracts, and quality teams to meet cost, schedule, quality, and business objectives. Supports proposals, supplier negotiations, performance monitoring, continuous improvement, and executive reporting.

Creates, schedules, releases, and maintains production orders using ERP/MRP systems. Coordinates with materials, manufacturing, procurement, quality, engineering, and program teams to ensure material readiness, accurate schedules, kitting, staging, and production execution. Monitors shortages, capacity constraints, schedule adherence, holds, and execution risks; maintains dispatch lists and production visibility; supports clear-to-build and readiness reviews; and improves production scheduling and material execution processes.

Supports manufacturing of electromechanical space and military products by improving processes, reducing defects, analyzing production performance, creating work instructions, reviewing designs for manufacturability, and managing nonconformances. Partners with technicians, operators, and review boards on root cause analysis, corrective actions, material dispositions, rework, quality compliance, workstation layouts, and lean manufacturing improvements.

Leads day-to-day operations programs supporting space electronics manufacturing. Coordinates production, supply chain, quality, and engineering teams; manages schedules, resources, budgets, risks, KPIs, and stakeholder communications. Drives Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous-improvement initiatives to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance product quality while ensuring timely delivery of operational objectives.

Lead development and implementation of ProPricer-based pricing processes and models for DoD and federal proposals. Build BOEs, labor/material/ODC estimates, BOM-driven cost models, and pricing narratives. Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, and BD to create defensible, compliant proposals; train staff and mature estimating capabilities. Support pricing and executive reviews and perform occasional travel.

Lead integration and test activities for space payloads, debugging hardware/software/firmware interfaces, performing root-cause analysis, supporting lab and environmental testing (TVAC, vibration, EMI/EMC), developing testbeds and automation, and documenting test results to enable verification and flight readiness.

Lead architecture and development of radiation-mitigated embedded hardware for space and defense programs. Drive requirements, high-speed mixed-signal PCB and FPGA/microprocessor design, integration, test, reviews, technical guidance, program support, and technology roadmap contributions.

Lead technical execution of software development for an aerial surveillance system, providing architecture, design, mentorship, and integration for real-time sensor/video processing and distributed publish/subscribe applications. Coordinate cross-functional teams, support customer demos and testing, manage technical risks, and produce documentation while ensuring delivery of mission-critical capabilities.

Lead technical execution of software for an aerial surveillance system: architect and implement Java/Linux-based distributed publish/subscribe applications that integrate sensors and video, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-functional teams, support testing/demos/deployments, manage backlog and technical risks, and produce design and interface documentation for a DoD program.

Own and govern the Altium component library and Enterprise Server. Create and verify IPC space-grade footprints, enforce EEE-INST-002 Level 3 selections, manage automotive/COTS up-screening and PEM governance, embed derating rules, track lifecycles/obsolescence, enforce part request workflows, and support manufacturing integration and occasional travel.

Lead program technical efforts as the principal systems engineering authority: drive requirements, integration, verification, risk mitigation, engineering reviews (SRR/PDR/CDR), and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver mission-critical space electronic systems on cost and schedule.