Technical Manager / PDA - Navigation Products - M/F

This role is for a Product Design Authority (PDA) focusing on anti-collision products, a new product line for autonomous platforms and helicopters. The PDA will serve as the technical leader for the team and the overall technical interface with the client. Key responsibilities include ensuring effective technical cooperation among Thales's multi-site teams to guarantee solution compliance with client requirements and maintaining the high technical quality of delivered products and services.

Must Have

• Be the technical leader of the team and the overall technical interface with the client
• Ensure good technical cooperation between Thales multi-site teams to guarantee solution compliance with client needs
• Guarantee the good technical quality of delivered products and services
• At least 10 years of experience in design and development of embedded electronic products
• Skills in digital, radio frequencies, software, FPGA for airborne systems

Good to Have

• Rigour
• Pragmatism
• Autonomy
• Good interpersonal skills

Perks & Benefits

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

Let's build a future of trust together

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, internal academies, and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• 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.

You will join the Technical Directorate of the Communication, Identification, and Navigation domain, composed of a team of 15 PDAs from different product lines: IFF (identification), Radio, MMR (Multi Mode Receiver), radio altimeters, TACAN, and LOS data link.

As a Product Design Authority (PDA) for anti-collision products, you will take technical responsibility for a new product line intended for autonomous platforms and helicopters. This unique product line in Europe is positioned in a rapidly growing market.

In this capacity, you will:

• Be the technical leader of the team and the overall technical interface with the client,
• Ensure good technical cooperation between Thales's multi-site teams to guarantee the solution's compliance with client needs,
• Guarantee the good technical quality of the products and services delivered.

Your profile

• With an Engineering/Bac+5 degree with a focus on electronics, you have at least 10 years of experience in the design and development of embedded electronic products and you possess skills in digital, radio frequencies, software, FPGA for airborne systems?
• Your peers recognize your rigour, pragmatism, autonomy, and interpersonal skills, allowing you to work effectively in a team?

A word from the manager

By joining us, you will be trained on our identification products, but also on our entire portfolio, our ambition being to offer you multiple career development opportunities within a learning company.

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 9, 2021.