Technical Lead - Digital Electronics

Location: Bangalore, India

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.

Technical Lead - Digital Electronics Engineering

Primary Purpose of the Role:

Thales India Engineering Competency Center in Bangalore is seeking a Technical Lead engineer Hardware IVVQ role to be part of Hardware engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading Integration of Hardware, firmware & software, perform product functional testing and perform product qualification tests for RADARs, Electronics Warfare systems and other Defense products to meet the customer requirements in term of schedule, cost and quality on your project

In this role you will be responsible for design and development of reliable, cost effective, customized products for aerospace applications. Electronics systems design, Obsolescence redesign for 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.

Experience & Educational Qualification:

B.Tech in Electronics & Communication or Electrical engineering or equivalent with 8 to 12 years of relevant experience.

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

Key Responsibilities And Tasks

You also perform and support hardware design and development activities and planning of certification aspects as per MIL-STD and DO-160, DO-254 standards.

Skills Required:

Essential

• 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 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-254 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
• Must have strong experience in complete Hardware development life cycle (Technical feasibility, requirements, 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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