Job Description: Avionics and Functional Architect
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), is a leading global space manufacturer with over 40 years of delivering high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science, and orbital infrastructures. Our diverse team enables us to serve customers such as governments, space agencies, and telecommunications operators, providing solutions to Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.
We are seeking an Avionics and Functional Architect to define and develop the conceptual avionic architectures, including Power, Data Handling, Guidance and Navigation, and Communications systems. The candidate will establish system and subsystem requirements and oversee the design implementation aligned with customer needs and requirements.
The role involves starting from initial mission objectives to develop operational, logical, and functional architectures, correlating them with system and subsystem requirements within the MBSE / ARCADIA methodology framework. The candidate will work within a core system-level team, interfacing with agencies and customers, requiring strong communication skills, proactive problem-solving, and team collaboration.
Ideal candidates should possess a solid background in avionics, capable of defining and managing complex system designs efficiently.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Participate as a member of the System Design Department focusing on avionics aspects.
2. Define and design system functional and avionics architectures and interfaces.
3. Conduct functional analysis to meet customer needs, defining functions and sub-systems.
4. Apply MBSE methods, particularly ARCADIA, using tools like Capella.
5. Perform trade-offs at spacecraft level, considering factors like mass, power, thermal dissipation, and configuration.
6. Elicit system avionics requirements and define hardware/software partitioning.
7. Oversee procurement of avionics sub-systems.
8. Coordinate verification and validation activities at subsystem and system levels.
9. Support quality assurance during manufacturing, integration, and testing, addressing NCRs.
10. Interface effectively with customers.
Qualifications and Skills:
* Master's degree in Engineering, preferably in Electronic Engineering.
* Relevant experience in space systems is preferred.
* Knowledge of MBSE, ARCADIA methodology, and Capella tool.
* Experience managing subcontractors both technically and programmatically.
* Leadership skills to manage and guide a technical team.
* Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
* Willingness to learn and adapt.
* Fluent in English, spoken and written.
* Knowledge of design and simulation tools like Matlab and Python is a plus.
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