FPGA Team Leader

You will join a team of 250+ colleagues recognized by domestic and international partners for their expertise in Radio Frequency (RF) Products, C4ISR, Crypto Global Solutions, MACS (Aeronautical Intercom), and more.

We are seeking an experienced FPGA Team Leader to lead a team of FPGA experienced engineers.

In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating FPGA development activities, ensuring delivery of technical milestones, guiding engineering best practices, and collaborating closely with system, software, verification, and hardware teams to deliver robust FPGA-based solutions.

Your mission:

• Lead and manage a team of FPGA engineers, including workload, priorities, and supporting individual performance and growth.

• Resolve technical issues and support troubleshooting, including VHDL coding, debugging hardware, timing failures, and integration defects.

• Own the technical direction for FPGA development, including architecture decisions, coding standards, verification approaches, and integration strategy.

• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., system engineering, hardware design, software/embedded, verification, manufacturing/operations).

• Ensure quality and reliability through structured verification, review processes, and adherence to coding and design best practices.

• Maintain documentation (requirements traceability, design documentation, decision making, test plans and strategies…).

• Identify risks and mitigation strategies.

What we are looking for:

• Strong FPGA experience – min 10 years.

• Technical Leadership and managing team in an engineering environment.

• Strong proficiency in VHDL coding and hands-on lab experience

• Working experience of communication interfaces and protocols (e.g., AXI/AMBA, PCIe, Ethernet, SPI/I2C, JESD).

• Ability to communicate clearly and manage priorities effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to perform reliability analysis (MTBF, MTTF)

• Ability to guide FPGA engineers in Digital circuit design

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum practices and engineering delivery metrics.

• Experience with performance optimization (throughput, latency, resource utilization) and power considerations.

Nice to have:

• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and failure analysis skills

• Clear communication of technical concepts (written and verbal) across different levels

• Strong analytical thinking and curiosity for technology

• Innovative mindset and willingness to learn

• Team player with an interest in international collaboration

• Flexibility to join projects at different stages

• Good command of English; French and/or Dutch is a plus


YOUR CAREER AT THALES

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competencies in different areas:

Room and attention to personal development
Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution
Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path
Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group