Location: Bangalore - Indraprastha, India

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance 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 - Mixed Signal Design

Thales India Engineering Competency Center in Bangalore is seeking a Tech Lead Engineer role. In this role you will be responsible for generating reliable, cost effective, customized Electronics systems design, Obsolescence redesign for Defense 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 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

Technical Skills and Competencies:

Must have strong experience in Product design and development from requirements to Conceptual design to architectural design to detailed design and analysis

Must have strong experience in designing low to high power analog electronic boards (for example, power supply, signal processing etc) for Defense / avionics Industry

Must have Strong knowledge in Specification, design and verification of electronic boards (including digital functions)

Must have strong knowledge of using simulation tools (SPICE, ANSYS etc) for functional simulation signal integrity and power integrity analyses

Must have working experience of product performance evaluation (Hardware Verification) and product qualification to comply to DO-160  and 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 team for thermal analysis & enclosures design, PCB layout team 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

Analog Electronic Engineering Skills and ability.

Mastering of electronic simulation and design software (Cadence, Allegro, ANSYS, PSPICE/LTSPICE)

Knowledge or Defense, aeronautics constraints (MIL-STD, DO160, DO254)

Design for manufacturing

Design for environmental requirements including EMC

General understanding of Engineering Development lifecycles including design, development, testing, verification and validation phases

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