Technical Lead RF

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Thales India Engineering Competency Center (ECC) in Bangalore is seeking a RF technical lead engineer this role you will be responsible for design development analysis testing and integration of RF systems and components used in secure communications and resilient network intelligence and surveillance systems command and control systems for land air and sea applications

Qualifications: Bachelors or masters degree in Electronics & Communication engineering or Electrical engineering RF engineering or equivalent with 8 years of relevant experience.

Higher qualification of PhD is desirable. Working experience in Defence systems and secure communications experience in Identification of friend or foe (IFF) systems radio navigation systems electronic communications warfare is desirable.

Technical skills and key responsibilities:

• Must have strong experience in the design and development of RF and analogue support focussing mainly on the HF and VHF domain.
• Must have very good experience in evaluating solutions troubleshooting and designing circuits using RF simulation tools and spice tools.
• Should have an experience in evaluating new technologies and innovation in cutting edge hardware that power secure communications and advanced defence systems
• Must have experience of developing circuit schematics with design justification
• Should have an experience of designing hardware rigs assemblies performing integration and verification tests
• Should coordinate with PCB layout engineer industrialization for the layout and fabricating the prototypes
• Serve as the primary technical authority during design reviews integration milestones and RF test campaigns
• Should have an experience of performing qualification tests troubleshooting and fixing the technical solutions
• Should have an experience of producing the comprehensive design documentation throughout the product life cycle from capturing the requirements to test specifications definition
• Ensure compliance with standards such as MIL-STD DO-160 FCC/CE or defence specific requirements.

General & Soft skills

• Work closely with cross-functional teams including hardware software and mechanical engineers to seamlessly integrate RF solutions into larger product designs.

• General understanding of Engineering Development lifecycles including design development testing verification and validation phases
• Design for manufacture Design for environmental requirements including EMC

• Strong communication skills written and verbal French language is preferable
• Knowledge of Military Standards digital signal processing concepts relevant to defence

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