Technical Lead -Hardware Solution Engg

Thales people architect solutions at the heart of the defence-security continuum. Interoperable and secure information and telecommunications systems for defence, security, and civil operators, are based upon innovative use of radiocommunications, networks, and cybersecurity. We are ground breaking new digital technologies such as 4G mobile communications, cryptography, cloud computing and big data for use in physical protection systems, and critical information systems.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 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, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.

Thales India Engineering Competency Center (ECC) in Bangalore is seeking a Technical Lead. In this role, you will be responsible for Hardware subsystems architectural design, trade-off analysis, feasibility studies, Proposal preparation, detailed design and IVVQ for various Thales products (Defense and aerospace applications) including Obsolescence redesign.

Qualifications:

• B.Tech in Electronics, Instrumentation engineering or equivalent with 8 to 12 years of relevant experience.
• Higher qualifications of Post-graduation is desirable.
• Domain experience in Defense, avionics and communication products is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of SoW and requirements and designing optimal architecture design for electronics/electro-mechanical sub systems
• Perform trade-off analysis of different technologies and feasibility studies to propose the best architecture design
• Preparing project proposal including schedule and efforts
• Coordinating with different stakeholders like Industrialization, IPO, suppliers, engineering, WPM, customer to prepare the optimal project proposals
• Design and development of hardware subsystems
• Integration of Hardware, Software and Firmware and performs IVVQ
• Collaborative work applying quality standards and internal processes
• Preparation of the associated project documentation and reviews

Skills & experience:

• Must have strong experience in complete Hardware development life cycle (Technical feasibility, requirements writing, preliminary and detailed design, prototype manufacturing, test and evaluation, qualification and certification)
• Must have gained experience in piloting a lot of development work, involving in product testing in external labs for EMI/EMC and other environmental testing
• Must have experience in the IVVQ (Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification) including requirements management
• Must have strong experience of integration of Hardware, FPGA firmware, low-level software and application software on Hardware unit.
• Must have good experience in bench test set-up, functional testing and performance evaluation
• Must have experience in developing Qualification Test procedures (QTPs), Qualification Test Reports (QTR), Qualification by similarity reports (QBSR) and other documents required by certification authorities
• Must have strong experience to troubleshoot on electronics and embedded hardware systems to find the root cause and to fix with a suitable solution
• Must have experience in interfacing with external test facilities for environmental and EMI/EMC and other electrical tests as per MIL-STD and DO-160 standards
• Must have experience to ensure the reporting progress of the project along with KPI
• Must have experience to manage risks and opportunities
• Must be rigorous, organized, autonomous and proactive, and motivated by a position within a multidisciplinary team.
• Must have demonstrated leadership skills on complex topics.
• Must have experience of working with multi-disciplinary team (BL engineering team, Lab technicians, external labs, Purchase team, ECC Engineering teams and manufacturing teams, …)

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