Navaids System Engineer (Open also To Protected Categories, Law 68/99)

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Location: Gorgonzola, Italy

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Gorgonzola hosts Navigations Air Systems (NAS) domain. The activity of NAS domain: avionics, navigation and radar systems for civil air traffic and technologies supporting the activities of civilian and military pilots, ATC controllers and technicians of several airlines, air traffic control agencies and Air Force around the world. Italy is the Group’s Competence center for the design, production and delivery of Navigation Aids products and Competence Centre for the delivery of non-Radar Surveillance Products.

Job Description

Thales Navigation And non-radar Surveillance (NAS) business segment, part of the Thales Land and Air Systems Global Business Unit, architects solutions used by two-thirds of all planes worldwide to take off and land safely. Our Ground Navigation portfolio offers a complete range of products, which includes the

latest generation of ground-based navigational aids (NAVAIDs) (e.g. ILS, DME, TACAN, VOR) and non-radar surveillance (e.g. ADS-B).

With more than 7,000 NAVAIDs and non-radar surveillance installed worldwide in 172 countries, we are world leaders in the NAVAIDs market.

Responsibilities

Participate to an integrated agile engineering team composed by several disciplines as Cyber, Software, Mechanics, Radio frequency, Safety, Design, service, manufacturing … to develop new products or propose improvement of existing products
Perform studies and simulation to validate innovating concepts and verify the performance of these innovations on the real system
Analyze stakeholders’ requirements
Produce and maintain product System Specifications and the product external interfaces
Analyze the System/Subsystem Specification (SSS) requirements to determine collectively the relevant modifications to the hardware, software
Support the hardware and software teams in the specifications and the interfaces of the sub systems of the product
Contribute to system IVVQ activities by defining the test strategy, writing test procedures and conduct integration, verification and qualification tests

Required Skills and Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with a minimum of 5 years’ experience or Masters with 4+ years’ experience
Master degree in Engineering among the following disciplines : Electronic, Digital, Telecom, Radio frequency, Aerospace
Experience in systems engineering
Overall engineering knowledge: Electronic, Software, Telecom, Mechanical, Radio Frequency and Engineering process (design, develop, qualify).
Good knowledge of standard Office tools (e.g. MS Office)
Team spirit to find collectively the most effective way to team objectives
Capacity to solve complex problem by himself or by requesting support and explain in a synthetic way how to solve them
• Fluent English is a must, ability to speak additional languages as Italian, French, or German is a benefit.

The candidate should:

Have a basic knowledge of Navigation and Surveillance equipment such as ILS, VOR, TACAN, DME, ADSB, MLAT, WAM… and in the technical field of air navigation and surveillance services and on the various regulations / standards such as ICAO or specific local standards.
Be proficient in the use of requirement management tools (Siemens Polarion ALM, IBM DOORS)
Be proficient with at least one between MATLAB or Python for scientific analysis
Be proficient in the use of issue tracking software (e.g. Jira)
Be self-motivated, critical thinker with strong curiosity to learn
Possess excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

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How we score this

Navaids System Engineer (Open also To Protected Categories, Law 68/99) at Thales scores 21 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it AI Level 1 of 4 (Little AI) on this board. The level measures how much of the work is AI, not seniority.

Classification

AI Level 1. The work itself involves no AI, or AI only appears as scenery, such as a company tagline.