Design Authority / Design Manager - Aero Domain Projects - M/F

9 Minutes ago • 15 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

Thales, a global high-tech leader in Defense & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Cyber & Digital, invests heavily in R&D for a safer, inclusive world. At the Gennevilliers Campus, within the Radiocommunication Products (RCP) Technical Directorate, you will serve as Design Authority for 5 major Aero domain projects (France and Export). Your role involves validating studies, proposals, and overseeing the development of airborne communication systems (modems, radios, encryptors, etc.) for Defense clients, ensuring technical coherence and risk detection.
Must have:
  • Contribute to technical coherence between offers and detect upstream risks, proposing contingency plans.
  • Validate studies, proposals, and ensure the follow-up of solution development.
  • Contribute to technological watch, new technology integration, and entity's technical policy elaboration.
  • Ensure reporting to the Design Authority delegation chain and SIX general management.
  • At least 15 years of experience in system or product development.
  • Prior experience as a technical manager on a system or product.
  • Skills in communication network system engineering.
  • Experience in the Aeronautics domain.
  • Fluent in English.
Good to have:
  • Technical leadership
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Ability to understand complex subjects
  • Adaptability
Perks:
  • Success driven by technological excellence, your experience, and shared ambition.
  • Attractive compensation package.
  • Continuous skills development: training courses, internal academies, and communities.
  • Inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance.
  • Recognized societal and environmental commitment.

Job Details

Build a future of trust together

Thales is a global high-tech leader specializing in three business sectors: Defense & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

  • Success driven by our technological excellence, your experience, and our shared ambition
  • An attractive compensation package
  • Continuous skills development: training courses, internal academies, and communities
  • An inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
  • A recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

The Gennevilliers Campus is the heart of design, development, and support activities for major defense systems: radiocommunications, resilient infrastructure networks and systems, satellite communications, collaborative combat, and cybersecurity. Located north of Paris, it is quickly accessible by public transport.

Within the Technical Directorate of the "Radiocommunication Products" (RCP) entity, which designs radios and embedded and tactical communication solutions for armies, friend/foe identification (IFF) systems, radionavigation, and communications electronic warfare solutions, you will join a team of about fifteen people as Design Authority for 5 major projects in the Aero domain at France and Export levels.

In this capacity, you will be responsible for validating studies, proposals, and monitoring the development of airborne communication systems (including modems, radios, encryptors, communication servers, and management tools) for our Defense clients.

Interfacing with project technical stakeholders (System Engineering Manager (EDM), Product Design Authority (PDA), and System Architects) and sometimes with clients (DGA, Dassault, export clients), you:

  • Contribute to technical coherence between offers and detect risks in the upstream phase by proposing contingency plans if necessary,
  • Validate studies, proposals and ensure the follow-up of solution development,
  • Contribute to technological watch, the integration of new technologies, and the elaboration of the entity's technical policy,
  • Ensure reporting to the Design Authority delegation chain and the general management of SIX.

Your profile

  • Are you an Engineer/Bac+5 with a Telecommunications specialization, with at least 15 years of experience in system or product development and have you already held the role of technical manager on a system or product?
  • Do you have skills in Communication Network System Engineering, in the field of Aeronautics, and are you fluent in English?
  • Are your technical leadership, interpersonal skills, ability to understand complex subjects, and adaptability recognized as assets?

Then don't hesitate and apply!

Thales, a Handi-Engaged company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our best asset. Apply and join us!

The position may require access to information related to national defense secrecy; therefore, the selected person will undergo a security clearance procedure, in accordance with the provisions of articles R.2311-1 et seq. of the Defense Code and IGI 1300 SGDSN/PSE of August 09, 2021.

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