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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Navigation Systems Algorithms and Performance Engineer

Flight Dynamics & GNCConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeToulouse, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Successful experience in navigation through disciplines such as precise orbit determination, time and frequency, ionosphere, integrity, or GNSS signal processing.
  • Experience developing performance-evaluation tools, simulations, and models.
  • Knowledge of GNSS.
  • Knowledge of satellite navigation, including error budgets and their compensation.
  • Knowledge of probability and statistics.
  • Knowledge of simulation and modeling.
  • Knowledge of Unix/Shell environments, Python, C, and Java.
  • Ability to communicate technical summaries and give oral and written presentations and reports.
  • Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

  • Specify and prototype algorithmic solutions for generating navigation data and controlling integrity.
  • Participate in validating algorithms through simulation and real-world testing, assessing resilience to feared events and their effects on the overall performance of navigation systems developed by the domain.
  • Identify and conduct trade-offs affecting the system architecture needed to achieve target performance.
  • Produce scenarios that define system performance commitments.
  • Produce system performance analyses and build the justification dossier.
  • Critically analyze failures or errors that affect system performance.
  • Identify causes of observed underperformance and propose appropriate solutions to maintain optimal system performance.
  • Participate in defining test cases and test procedures.
  • Contribute to system performance qualification by executing test procedures and analyzing possible deviations for justification.
  • Contribute to specifying and developing tools for analyzing the performance of navigation data produced by the systems.

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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