Product Line Architect Active Antenna Sub-system (M/F)

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Thales is a global high-tech leader 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 skills development: training courses, academies, and internal 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 network and infrastructure systems, satellite communications, collaborative combat, and cybersecurity. Located north of Paris, it is easily accessible by public transport.

Satellite communication systems must meet high levels of requirements, sometimes specific to the defense world (e.g., jamming resistance) while ensuring the best possible performance levels. Thales develops active antenna-based solutions to meet these constraints and needs.

Our main clients are the Ministry of Armed Forces, its equivalent in allied countries, or NATO structures (NCIA). We also count among our clients BITD companies and other entities of the Thales group.

YOUR MISSIONS:

You are responsible for the reference architecture of active antenna-based sub-systems. You ensure its compliance with standards, particularly NATO, regulatory requirements, cybersecurity standards, as well as the specific needs of defense clients.

You are the PLA (Product Line Architect) for the product line, therefore responsible for the technological choices and the roadmap established based on market needs expressed by the PLM (Product Line Manager).

During the design and production phases, you are responsible for the proper fulfillment of requirements, respecting planning and costs, for specific products and solutions.

You contribute to the development of strategic and technological plans related to the evolution of satellite communication technologies, and evolve the product roadmap by integrating client feedback and new needs, in conjunction with the PLM.

You participate in offers to define the correct positioning of the product range within the systems provided to our clients.

YOUR PROFILE:

You have perfect mastery of product and sub-system architecture principles.

You master satellite communication technologies.

You master technologies related to active antennas and their control electronics.

You are perfectly fluent in English.

Experience in complex system architecture is desirable.

Good knowledge of electromagnetic wave physics is desirable.

Knowledge of jamming and anti-jamming principles is desirable.

A WORD FROM THE TEAM / MANAGER

Within the GBU SIX, the NIS (Network & Infrastructure) Business Line is experiencing strong growth in its connectivity and deployable network offerings. The diversity and performance of products expected by forces are constantly increasing. We therefore want to strengthen the Technical Directorate, already comprising 12 experts, to meet the challenge of defining and helping to deploy connectivity tools for more collaborative combat, thereby enabling Thales to meet ever-increasing expectations in this area.

Innovation, passion, ambition: join Thales and create the world of tomorrow, today.

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

The position may require access to information relating to national defense secrecy; the selected person will therefore be subject to 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 9, 2021.