RAMS Engineer

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RAMS engineer providing reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety analysis for space products and systems.

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Location: Madrid Tres Cantos, Spain

A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.

Thales in Spain is a leader in technological solutions applied to Defence, Aeronautics, Security, Transportation and Space and, furthermore, is a global centre for excellence in Space, Security of Critical Infrastructures and Transportation. With a turnover of €320 million and a staff of 1,200, it exports approximately 40% of its total production principally to the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.

Within the RAMS service of the Quality Engineering, the activities are carried out under the primary responsibility of the head of service and consist to:

Provide Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety (RAMS) engineering expertise and analysis in the development and implementation of Space products.
Develop, maintain and implement a Dependability (RAM) & Safety programme plan for all project phases addressing the RAMS requirements applicable to the project.
Perform RAMS design, analysis, modeling and simulation to specify and verify that the Space products developed at Thales Alenia Space to meet the customer requirements during the whole operational lifetime.
Represent RAMS in technical meetings involving RAMS-related issues. Participate in, influence and approve design decisions impacting or potentially impacting RAMS.
Attend the Program Design reviews for their respective Product and/or Project areas and provide evaluations & recommendations (RIDs).
Review the RAMS Analyses performed by subcontractors.
Identify with adequate anticipation risks and opportunities and propose mitigation actions.
Prepare subsystem & equipment RAMS requirements for relative specifications, interface requirements and test requirements by analysing and decomposing customer requirements.
Perform trade off evaluations in conjunction with other attributes such as mass, size, cost and performance to identify the product RAMS engineering design choices with associated advantages and disadvantages.
Evaluate the compliance of designs with RAMS engineering requirements by review of technical specifications, designs & designs changes for both HW and SW, and suggests design alternatives where appropriate to enhance reliability based on a knowledge of design feasibility & the RAMS requirements.
Support the rationale for the selection of the design solution and the demonstration that the design meets the RAMS requirements by performing:
Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA) with identification of Single Point Failure
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA),
Hardware Software Interaction Analysis
Failure Detection Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) analysis
Availability/Outage Analysis
Maintainability Activities
Hazard Analysis
Ensure that RAMS can be verified. Review of test documentation.
Report directly to the RAMS Manager RAMS and work closely with other team members, both inside the RAMS team and from other functional teams, to meet the project objectives.

Business Context:

To assure the RAMS of products is maintained.
To provide “RAM designs” which meet specifications and budgets.
To ensure that Product Design meets the customer requirements.
To develop new and creative methods for analyzing equipment designs and problem-solving in order to identify effective design solutions to meet operational and dependability objectives.
To work with others as a team member and to enhance the image of RAMS Engineering within the company and with our customers.
To maintain high personal productivity while working interactively with many other suppliers and user groups.
To keep up to date on new analysis techniques.
To respect project deadlines.

Competences:

Experience on projects in the context of Safety & RAM assurance.
Knowledge of design engineering in particular electronic design,
Competence on RAMS Analysis methods.

A five-years experience in RAMS engineering is preferred

What do we offer?

Flexible schedule, from 8 to 9.30 and 16.30 until 18h.
Thales Concilia: a set of advantages and free services and others at reduced prices.
Free and healthy canteen.
Enjoy discounts and special promotions on products and services thanks to Club Ahorro.
22 working days of vacation, 6 days of free disposal and closing days that do not consume vacations at Christmas and Easter.
Thales Flex: Personalized flexible compensation plan in which you can choose how to distribute your salary (health insurance, childcare vouchers, transportation and training).
Annual bonus.
Fixed profit bonus of 739,76€.
Sharing Thales program: become a Thales shareholder.
Hybrid work plan.
Pension Plan with monthly contributions on your behalf to your Pension Plan.
Wellness Plan: thematic webinars and access to our company clubs.
Medical and physiotherapy service at the workplace.
We continuously create an inclusive, respectful and cooperative environment.

At Thales Alenia Space we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales Alenia Space employing around 8,900 employees in 10 countries with 17 sites in Europe and a plant in the US, our mobility policy enables employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad. Thales Alenia Space sees space as a new horizon, helping to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth #SpaceForLife. Great journeys start here, apply now!

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Key facts

RAMS Engineer is an open job at Thales.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in Madrid Tres Cantos.
The job was posted on September 29, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Thales. Apply on Thales

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