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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Digital Payload Architect - Projet Iris²

Spacecraft & Launch Vehicle SystemsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeToulouse, FranceNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • You have an engineering-school degree or equivalent Bac+5, specializing in telecommunications, digital electronics, or signal processing.
  • You have experience in requirements management, particularly using Polarion.
  • You can program in Python or Matlab.
  • You have experience in technical management and can lead developments carried out internally and at industrial partners.
  • You can manage and monitor a subcontracted study.
  • You have technical English proficiency in an international context.

Responsibilities

  • Specify onboard equipment based on radio-frequency hardware, digital electronics, and embedded software technologies, potentially including physical-layer processing such as modems and decoders.
  • Lead the technical development and acceptance of equipment produced internally or subcontracted to industrial partners.
  • Participate in satellite integration, verification, validation, and qualification activities, including defining assembly, integration, and test activities for payloads.
  • Monitor and validate equipment and payload testing, from integration through in-orbit validation tests.
  • Define operational cases for payload functions and contribute to preparing control sequences used by the ground control center.
  • Act as the technical interface with equipment suppliers and participate in technical reviews with the customer.
  • Provide expertise in validation activities, ground operations, technical investigations, non-conformity analyses, customer proposals, system and mission activities, and functional modeling of complex systems.
  • Progressively take on technical architecture responsibilities, ensuring consistency between customer expectations and design and development activities throughout the project.

About the Company

Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Thales designs and delivers critical technology for aerospace, defense, and digital security. Its products include electronics, software, and data-security systems that power air travel, payments, and modern military platforms, by integrating hardware and software to build systems such as avionics, radar, cybersecurity, and secure communications that collect sensor data and protect networks. It stands out through deep industrial experience, end-to-end solutions across defense, aerospace, and cybersecurity, and a focus on AI and quantum tech, aided by strategic acquisitions and partial state ownership. Its goal is to provide reliable, secure, and connected technologies that support national security, public safety, and everyday life by solving complex security and connectivity challenges.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Meudon, France
Founded
1893

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