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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Expert Antenna Architect

Hardware Systems IntegrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeÉlancourt, FranceNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • Have an engineering education in electronics and more than 10 years of significant hardware-development experience in the microwave and active and/or passive antenna field.
  • Have experience in functional supervision or activity coordination and project management.
  • Have confirmed skills in active antennas, microwave engineering, and hardware development processes.
  • Know hardware constraints related to electromagnetic signature reduction and radomes.
  • Have knowledge of measurement equipment and methods.
  • Be proficient in written and spoken English.
  • Have rigor, synthesis, organization, and autonomy to work with a multidisciplinary team.
  • Have openness and interpersonal skills to perform a functional leadership role.
  • Be able to respond proactively to evolving short-term constraints and propose innovations.

Responsibilities

  • Be technically responsible for the hardware architecture of a microwave subassembly or active antenna, and ensure its consistency with the overall solution from specification through integration and validation.
  • Translate upstream specifications into the constituent elements of the hardware solution.
  • Direct and coordinate hardware architecture studies.
  • Approve technical, technological, and methodological choices in accordance with the approved hardware architecture.
  • Manage and coordinate multidisciplinary contributors, including physical architecture, analog and digital electronics, and industrial engineering, to meet technical, cost, and schedule commitments for ongoing developments.
  • Take design responsibility, using simulations and prototyping, and integrate and validate developed and simulated functions.
  • Apply standard reference processes to assigned developments.
  • Share expertise and provide technical support to development teams.
  • Contribute technical input to offers and propose architectures that balance performance and cost.
  • Contribute to study proposals, technical and technological innovation, technical roadmaps for the entity, and the company's continuous-improvement approach.

Desired Qualifications

  • Have programming skills and experience with microwave and antenna simulation, ideally including MATLAB, HFSS, and ADS.
  • Know the architectures of equipment for airborne radar 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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