Senior Technical Lead

Thales India Engineering Competency Center in Bangalore is seeking a Senior Technical Lead for Digital Electronics. This role involves designing and developing reliable, cost-effective products for Defense & avionics applications, including obsolescence redesign. Responsibilities include electronics systems design, trade analysis, engineering simulations, and derating analysis, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards like DO-160, DO-254, and MIL-STD. The ideal candidate will have 12-14 years of experience in hardware design, development, and testing of high-speed digital electronic circuits, microprocessors, microcontrollers, FPGAs, and embedded firmware.

Must Have

• Strong experience in Electronic design and development from requirements to detailed design.
• Strong experience in hardware design, development and testing of high-speed digital electronic circuits.
• Hands-on experience in product design, board-level testing, integration and validation.
• Strong knowledge of using Design and simulation tools.
• Working experience of product performance evaluation to comply to DO-160 or MIL-STD standards.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills on Electrical / Electronic boards.
• Experience with VHDL coding and Timing analysis.
• Mastery of electronic simulation and design software (Cadence, Allegro, ANSYS, PSPICE/LTSPICE).
• Knowledge of Defense & aeronautics constraints (MIL-STD, DO160, DO254).

Good to Have

• Higher qualifications of Post-graduation and PhD are desirable.
• Working experience in Defense / Avionics domain is desirable.
• Experience of working with multi-disciplinary team (Mechanical, PCB layout, Systems engineering and suppliers).
• Understanding and use of DFMEA, DFT and DFM tools.
• General understanding of Engineering Development lifecycles.

Thales is a global technology leader trusted by governments, institutions, and enterprises to tackle their most demanding challenges. From quantum applications and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity and 6G innovation, our solutions empower critical decisions rooted in human intelligence. Operating at the forefront of aerospace and space, cybersecurity and digital identity, we’re driven by a mission to build a future we can all trust.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida and has other operational offices and sites spread across Delhi, Gurugram, Bengaluru and Mumbai, among others. Over 2200 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Aerospace and Cyber & Digital sectors. Thales has two engineering competence centres in India - one in Noida focused on Cyber & Digital business, while the one in Bengaluru focuses on hardware, software and systems engineering capabilities for both the civil and defence sectors, serving global needs. The Group has also established an MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) facility in Gurugram to provide comprehensive avionics maintenance and repair services to Indian airlines and support the growth of the local aviation industry.

Senior Technical Lead – Digital Electronics

Thales India Engineering Competency Center in Bangalore is seeking a Senior Technical Lead role. In this role you will be responsible for design and development of reliable, cost effective, customized products for Defense & avionics applications. Electronics systems design, Obsolescence redesign for Defense / avionics products to meet the customer requirements as well as governing regulatory standards (DO-160, DO-254, MIL-STD, etc.). You also perform trade analysis of design approaches, engineering simulations & modeling, derating analysis before finalizing the design.

Qualifications: B.Tech in Electronics & Communication or Electrical engineering or equivalent with 12 to 14 years of relevant experience.

Higher qualifications of Post-graduation and PhD are desirable. Working experience in Defense / Avionics domain is desirable.

Technical Skills and Competencies:

• Must have strong experience in Electronic design and development from requirements to Conceptual design to architectural design to detailed design and analysis
• Must have strong experience in the hardware design, development and testing of high speed digital electronic circuits including microprocessors, microcontrollers, FPGA and embedded firmware.
• Must have hands on experience in product design, board level testing, integration and validation testing including development of test plans and Pass/fail criteria.
• Must have strong knowledge of using Design and simulation tools
• Must have working experience of product performance evaluation (Hardware Verification) to comply to DO-160 or MIL-STD standards
• Must have excellent troubleshooting skills on Electrical / Electronic boards to find the root cause and to propose the best solution
• Should have experience of working with multi-disciplinary team ( Mechanical, PCB layout, Systems engineering and suppliers)
• Should have an understanding and use of DFMEA, DFT and DFM tools
• Definition and choice of components (including derating)
• Definition of electrical schematics and building blocks
• Boards place&route (including signal integrity)
• Manufacturing failures analysis / Root cause analysis
• Test procedures definition and execution
• Component obsolescence treatment : alternative solution identification, definition/design of the solution, verification

Profile/Skills

• Digital Electronic Engineering Skills and ability. VHDL coding, Timing analysis
• Mastering of electronic simulation and design software (Cadence, Allegro, ANSYS, PSPICE/LTSPICE)
• Knowledge or Defense & aeronautics constraints (MIL-STD, DO160, DO254)
• General understanding of Engineering Development lifecycles including design, development, testing, verification and validation phases

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