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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Hardware Architect Displays

Hardware Systems IntegrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBordeaux, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A BAC+5 qualification from an engineering school or equivalent, specializing in Electronics, Mechanics, or Aeronautics.
  • More than 10 years of significant experience in one or more hardware disciplines and product development.
  • Experience leading an R&D project.
  • Ability to apply architect practices and tools, including systems thinking and trade-off analysis, and to develop and explain architectural concepts.
  • Ability to manage technical and organizational complexity.
  • Knowledge of production activities, including procurement, manufacturing, and delivery.
  • Oral and written English for work with multidisciplinary and international teams.
  • Willingness to travel on short-duration assignments of less than two weeks, including to India.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical hardware architecture of the project solution and coordinate with the solution/system architect and Project Design Authority to ensure alignment with hardware, industrial, and procurement strategies.
  • Coordinate hardware-discipline engineers and functions, including digital and analog boards, radio frequency, power supplies, FPGA and ASIC integrated circuits, low-level software, electronics and mechanical design offices, testability and test equipment, and industrial design.
  • Develop, stabilize, and maintain the hardware architecture throughout all lifecycle phases, from offer to hardware delivery.
  • Capture needs from functional requirements, high-level allocations (PIDS/PIDD LRU), safety and quality constraints, and product policy, and decompose them to the Display Front End subassembly level.
  • Define the architecture of the Displays Front End Shop Replaceable Unit and write the Critical Item Design Specification.
  • Approve technical, technological, and methodological choices.
  • Ensure compliance with standards, product development plans including reuse policy, and hardware, industrial, and procurement strategies.
  • Identify hardware architecture risks and opportunities, and propose and implement plans to reduce risks and validate opportunities.
  • Implement architectural choices by balancing cost, supply chain, customer requirements, and technological capabilities.
  • Prepare design and justification documentation.
  • Provide knowledge of the state of the art in hardware architecture and its development prospects.
  • Contribute to the technical strategy of one or more display product lines or hardware products.
  • Ensure compliance with the Ethics Code and Code of Conduct while performing the assigned duties.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of products in an avionics domain, such as civil and military computers, displays, inertial systems, GNSS, or probes.
  • Knowledge of DO-254, DO-160 certification and aviation systems safety standards including ARP4761 and ARP4754B.

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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