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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Embedded Software Team Manager

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLa Ferté-Saint-Aubin, FranceNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • Engineering education or equivalent Bac+5.
  • At least 10 years of experience in embedded software development, ideally in aerospace, defense, or highly constrained industrial environments.
  • Good understanding of embedded systems, including close interaction between software and electronics, and ability to collaborate across electronics, modeling, and systems teams for optimal integration.

Responsibilities

  • Provide close day-to-day management of employees by supporting their work, helping set priorities, giving feedback, supporting problem resolution, developing autonomy, encouraging responsibility, and contributing to assignments across products and projects based on needs, profiles, and aspirations.
  • Contribute to evolving the discipline’s skills roadmap and technical directions.
  • Contribute to evolving the discipline’s operating methods to balance agility, risk management—particularly cybersecurity—traceability, and certification requirements applicable to critical embedded software.
  • Contribute to defining software architectures and development practices consistent with systems, safety, cybersecurity, and performance requirements.
  • Contribute to defining and operationally implementing the cybersecurity strategy.
  • Promote the development of standardized and reusable tools, methods, frameworks, and software components or building blocks that can be shared to improve team efficiency and reduce development costs and lead times.
  • Continue and strengthen automation of software development and verification activities by identifying further optimization and efficiency opportunities, particularly through integration of artificial intelligence solutions.
  • Lead continued adoption of the group’s software-domain tools (Software Factory), supporting smooth adoption within teams and alignment of software development processes and tools with group standards and best practices.

Desired Qualifications

  • Expertise in DO-178C certification, including DAL levels, and/or cybersecurity is strongly desired.
  • Knowledge of artificial intelligence technologies applied to embedded systems is an additional asset.

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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