FPGA/ASIC Digital Verification Engineer - IRIS² Project - M/F

Thales Alenia Space is a key industrial partner in the IRIS² project, contributing to technical design, payload manufacturing, and program governance as a Core Team Member of the SpaceRISE consortium. This role is within the Electronic Hardware France Competence Center (CCHEF), renowned for its critical embedded systems. As an ASIC/FPGA Verification Engineer, you will ensure the compliance and reliability of new-generation embedded hardware platforms. You will lead a development team in the verification phase, managing technical aspects, task distribution, and team dynamics. Your responsibilities include defining verification plans, developing testbenches, supervising test development, and ensuring effective handover to validation teams.

Must Have

• Define a unit and top-level verification plan
• Develop testbenches and associated transactors
• Supervise test development, non-regression campaigns, and coverage metrics calculation (code coverage, functional coverage)
• Ensure effective handover to equipment validation teams, actively participating in initial validation phases
• Solid experience (minimum 5 years) in ASIC or FPGA verification in constrained embedded environments
• Proficiency in hardware description languages (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog) and scripting (Python)
• Proficiency in verification tools (Questa, Xcellium or VCS)
• Good knowledge of standard communication protocols (AMBA, Ethernet, CAN, I²C)
• Master's degree or PhD in digital electronics, microelectronics or equivalent

Good to Have

• Experience with UMV verification methodology
• Experience technically supervising a team or project and leading an Agile Squad

Perks & Benefits

• Success driven by technological excellence, experience, and shared ambition
• Attractive compensation package
• Continuous skill development: training programs, internal academies and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Build a future of trust together

Thales is a global leader in high technologies specializing in three 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 skill development: training programs, internal academies, and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

The Toulouse Champollion site brings together activities in satellite systems engineering, payload design and manufacturing, ground segment development and qualification. It includes a research center and an industrial accelerator for start-ups and ventures, as well as activities dedicated to low-temperature science, specifically the development and production of micromechanical coolers for demanding markets.

Thales Alenia Space plays a major industrial role in the IRIS² project by contributing to the technical design, manufacturing of payloads, and program governance, as a Core Team Member of the SpaceRISE consortium. A major technological and programmatic challenge, promising for European sovereignty… and an exciting human adventure in which you can take part!

You join the Electronic Hardware France Competence Center (CCHEF), a major player in European space, recognized for its critical embedded systems, operating 24/7 for over 15 years in orbit. Our solutions are currently at the heart of over 150 operational satellites in the fields of Telecoms, Earth Observation, and Science.

Driven by the rapid growth of low-orbit constellations, the space sector is entering a new technological era. The need for high-performance embedded solutions is more demanding than ever. This is where your role becomes essential.

As an ASIC/FPGA Verification Engineer, you play a key role in the compliance and reliability of new-generation embedded hardware platforms. You are responsible for the verification of digital systems composed of one or more ASIC or FPGA integrated circuits, and hold a central role in leading a development team in the verification phase, ensuring technical mastery, proper task distribution, and collective dynamics. You contribute to ensuring a coherent, robust, and industrializable implementation of critical digital functions.

By joining us, your main missions are:

• Define a unit and top-level verification plan
• Develop testbenches and associated transactors
• Supervise test development, non-regression campaigns, and the calculation of coverage metrics (code coverage, functional coverage)
• Ensure an effective handover with equipment validation teams, actively participating in the initial validation phases.

Your profile:

Have you already technically supervised a team or project and know how to lead an Agile Squad?

You have a BAC+5 or PhD degree in digital electronics, microelectronics or equivalent and have the following skills:

• Solid experience (minimum 5 years) in ASIC or FPGA verification in constrained embedded environments
• Proficiency in hardware description languages (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog) and scripting (Python)
• Proficiency in verification tools (Questa, Xcellium or VCS)
• Good knowledge of standard communication protocols (AMBA, Ethernet, CAN, I²C,…)
• Ideally, experience with the UMV verification methodology
• A good level of technical English (read, written, spoken)

Excellent interpersonal skills, autonomy, and rigor are assets you are recognized for?

Do you recognize yourself? Then this position is for you!

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