
Electrical Engineer
Trident Maritime Systems - CAC, LLC
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Job overview
The Electrical Engineer provides electrical engineering support to Trident Maritime Systems’ Product Groups and Engineering Department. The role designs, develops, and maintains electrical control systems and components, and supports projects from concept and detailed design through implementation, testing, and handover. Work includes coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, clients, and contractors, applying electrical and marine standards, and qualifying, servicing, and documenting products and systems.
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Exempt
Direct
NASSCO - San Diego, CA, San Diego, CA, US
Requisition ID: 1698
Job Title: Electrical Engineer
Department: Engineering
FLSA: Exempt
Location: San Diego, CA
RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide Electrical Engineering support to Trident Maritime System’s Product Groups and to the Engineering Department as a whole. The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:
Design, develop and maintain electrical control systems and/or components to required specifications, focusing on economy, safety, reliability, quality and sustainability.
Provide concept and detail design, implementation, testing and handover support.
Possess the technical knowledge, be able to project manage and multitask.
Possess commercial awareness such as team leadership or management skills, are required as careers progress.
Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary project team, which is likely to include engineers from other specialist areas, marketing and sales staff, manufacturers, suppliers, and technicians.
Ability to work at every stage of product design and development. The nature of the work varies according to product or system requested but the range of activities common to many projects is likely to include:
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Identifying customer requirements
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Designing systems and products
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Reading design specifications and technical drawings
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Researching suitable solutions and estimating costs and timescales
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Working to IEEE, ABS, Lloyd’s Register and other electrical and marine standards
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Liaising with others in the design team
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Liaising with clients and contractors
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Attending meetings on site
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Designing and conducting tests
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Recording, analyzing and interpreting test data
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Proposing modifications and retesting products
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Qualifying the final product or system
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Servicing and maintaining equipment
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Preparing product documentation, writing reports and giving presentations
REQUIREMENTS
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Bachelors degree, 2-5 yrs experience out of college, with electrical designs layout and controls (i.e. one-line diagrams/schematics, sequence of operations, bill of material, network layouts) and software applications
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Demonstrated knowledge of electrical/electronic control systems
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Demonstrated technical aptitude
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Desire marine industry (commercial or defense) experience
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Ability to make interference control drawings, manufacturing drawings and arrangement and detail drawings
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Flexible with schedules and work hours (Ability to work overtime is a must)
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Proof of U.S. citizenship required
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Undergo and pass a drug screening
As an electrical engineer, you'll be involved with designing, developing and integrating electrical control systems (http://www.totaljobs.com/careers-advice/job-profile/trade-jobs/electrician-job-description) for machinery, equipment and mechanical systems.
How this job compares
Set against the 10,330 open Electrical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$130–190K/yr1,057 salary ranges
- California median$55–63/hr35 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,299 open Electrical Engineer jobs in California and 10,330 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Electrical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 8,622 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 6,872 of the 10,330 open Electrical Engineer jobs (67%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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