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. Thales people architect solutions that enable two-thirds of planes to take off and land safely. Our Ground Navigation portfolio offers a complete range of products which includes the latest generation of ILS, DME, VOR and TACAN systems. With more than 7,000 Navigation aids and landing systems installed worldwide in 172 countries, we are leading the Navaids market. The second product line of NAS is Non-Radar Surveillance (NRS) with an installed base of more than 2.200 ADS-B and MLAT ground stations. We are currently looking for an HW RF Engineer to join Thales Land and Air Systems in its Navaids Center of Competence Gorgonzola (near Milan). Technically responsible for the RF board design and its consistency with the solution, the RF HW Engineer coordinates with the solution Engineering Manager and PDA in order to make sure that the top down refinement of the solution is consistent with the hardware strategy and constraints including COTS selection and components reuse. Key Responsibilities and Tasks: - Design, develop and optimize Radio Frequency HW and Systems - Works with the project team and takes also the full range of activities related to the electronic board design - Prepares the Design & Justification Files (D&JF) and design guidelines - Guarantees adherence to in-scope standards, reuse policy and product development plans Experience needed: - Experience in RF circuits and related PCB design - Experience on new digital enabled integrated RF transceiver architectures or direct sampling platforms - Knowledge of and experience in RF simulation tools like ADS, CST, MATLAB or SPICE - Experience with RF measurement equipment: oscilloscopes, spectrum and network analyzers - Programming skills are a plus (VHDL, C/C++, C#, Matlab, Python, LabView). COMMUNICATION - Strong communication skills required, including the ability to clearly express technical concepts in verbal and written forms across different management levels. - Ability to work in team. Taste for international contacts. Manifest the flexibility needed to be integrated in the different stages of a project. - Technical leadership - with ability to build and sustain good working relationships with staff, peers and managers, customers and other stakeholders. Skills and Qualifications: - Master’s degree in field with 4 years’ experience - Interpersonal skills - the ability to communicate effectively with peers and act proactively within a team environment - English and Italian fluent is a must - Ability to speak additional languages as German or French is a benefit - The role will require travel for less than 10% of the time