Hardware Engineering Manager

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Hardware Architect/Engineering Manager for Electronic Solutions

Thales India Engineering Competency Center (ECC) in Bangalore is seeking a Technical Lead/Sr Technical lead to be part of Hardware engineering this role you will be responsible for Hardware subsystems architectural decisions trade-off analysis feasibility studies Proposal preparation Project scheduling/costing Project monitoring and managing and IVVQ for various Thales products (Defense and aerospace applications). You will be coordinating with the Solution/System Architect and the Project Design Authority (PDA) to ensure consistency with the Solution/System architecture and with the hardware industry and procurement strategies.

Necessary to technically and functionally co-ordinate with engineers of hardware disciplines such as Board design (digital analog RF and power supplies) FPGA design (FPGA ASIC) low-level software (in agreement with the software architect) mechanical design testability and means of tests industrial design (in agreement with the Head of Industry). This position requires having good level of expertise in its hardware product design development and qualification.

Qualifications: in Electronics Instrumentation engineering or equivalent with 10 years of relevant experience. Higher qualifications of Masters or Post-graduation is desirable. Domain experience in Avionics systems or defense system is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Develop stabilize and maintain hardware architecture for all phases of the life cycle from design to delivery to customer.
• Perform trade-off analysis of different technologies and feasibility studies to propose the best architecture design
• Implement architecture choices based on trade-offs between cost supply chain customer requirements and technology possibilities
• Lead and coordinate the architectural studies of Hardware under his responsibility
• Perform trade-off analysis of different technologies and feasibility studies to propose the best architecture design
• Identify risks and opportunities related to the hardware architecture
• Propose and implement risk reduction plans and opportunities for validation
• Preparing project proposal including schedule and efforts
• Preparation of the associated project documentation and reviews
• Coordinating with different stakeholders like Industrialization IPO suppliers engineering WPM customer to prepare the optimal project proposals
• Integration of Hardware Software and Firmware and performs IVVQ
• Collaborative work applying quality standards and internal processes
• Ensure compliance with standards product development plans (reuse policy) material industrial and purchasing strategies

Skills & experience:

• Must have strong experience in complete Hardware certified development life cycle (Technical feasibility requirements writing preliminary and detailed design prototype manufacturing test and evaluation qualification and certification)
• Must have gained experience in piloting a lot of development work involving in product testing in external labs for hardware products
• Must have experience in the IVVQ (Integration Verification Validation and Qualification) including requirements management
• Must have strong experience of integration of Hardware FPGA firmware mechanical packaging low-level software and application software on Hardware unit.
• Must have good experience in bench test set-up functional testing and performance evaluation
• Must have experience in developing IVV Test procedures (PVP/ATP) Test Reports (PVR/ATR) Qualification by similarity reports (QBSR) and other documents required by certification authorities for airborne products.
• Must have strong experience to troubleshoot on electronics and embedded hardware systems to find the root cause and to fix with a suitable solution.
• Must have experience to ensure the reporting progress of the project along with KPI.
• Must have experience to manage risks and opportunities at Hardware solution architecture.
• Must be rigorous organized autonomous and proactive and motivated by a position within a multidisciplinary team.
• Must have demonstrated leadership skills on complex topics.
• Must have experience of working with multi-disciplinary team (extended business line engineering team Lab technicians external labs Purchase team Engineering teams and manufacturing teams)
• Must have experience in interfacing with external test facilities for environmental and EMI/EMC and other electrical tests as per MIL-STD/IEC61000/DO-160 standards.
• Should be familiar with Knowledge of production trades: procurement manufacturing delivery
• Knowledge of Certification DO254/DO160 Safety of aeronautical systems (ARP4761) and Knowledge of ARP4754B will be helpful.
• Product knowledge in avionics fields: civil and military calculators displays inertia GNSS probes will be helpful.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in an international multi-cultural environment (France Canada India UK). Ability to work across different departments and establish effective relationships.

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