Technical Lead

Location: Bangalore, India

Thales people architect solutions that enable two-thirds of planes to take off and land safely. We create in-flight entertainment systems that engross 50 million fliers every year and we develop the avionics that control the world’s largest commercial aircrafts. Our simulators train the next generation of pilots for fighter jets, transporters and search and rescue helicopters. And, together, each and every member of our aerospace team makes a difference.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.

Lead Solution Engineer for MCO Equipment

Thales India Engineering Competency Center (ECC) in Bangalore is seeking a Solution Engineer for MCO equipment, to be part of MCO engineering team. In this role you will be in charge of Engineering activities to demonstrate the compliance and functionalities of equipment in front of Design Changes with same form-fit-functionalities. You establish the Change Impact Analysis, and perform the Simulation, analysis and verification activities.

Context of Design in MCO activities for FLX Cockipit and Computers,

After the first certification of our Equipments, during serial production and support phases, our equipment are regularly submitted to Design Changes. These Design Change involving partial redesign, are mainly due to obsolescence treatment, necessary correction to solve critical PR (Problem Report).; or enhancement improvement of equipment capabilities. These design changes vary from minor changes (component change with limited impact) to more significant change where all the safety, qualification, and certification information have to be re-assessed regarding airworthiness regulation, all the Design Changes must be submitted to customer approval before release. Our Equipments are Computers (as Flight Control, Flight Management, Display, Interactivity Control Panel, Head up Display). Our team is focused on Hardware Changes (electronics, packaging).

Qualifications:

Equipment engineering or equivalent with 8+ years of relevant experience in aeronautic. Higher qualifications of post-graduation is desirable. Domain experience in civil Avionics design is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Establish Impact Analysis of electronics Design Changes
• Understand the applicable documentation basis (from specification to IVVQ and safety BOM data package).
• Propose the validation plan.
• Build the Simulation/analysis, and establish the entire necessary demonstration to obtain our PDA (followed by Customer) approval,
• Prepare all the customer satisfactory certification documentation (expected example) and reviews.
• Perform the complementary testing and IVV at equipment level.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and specialists in a collaborative manner for
• Electronics Engineers when boards or FPGA are modified.
• Packaging: Environmental testing when Qualification test are repeated
• Test Bench and Means: industrialization & Production Support, Acceptances Tests in manufacturing.
• Configuration Management team
• Project Managers
  
  

• Must have strong knowledge in Electronics (analog and digital) design and development.
• Should be able to analyze electronics circuits individually.
• Should be able to select alternate electronics components (Active, Passive and Connector) individually.
• Should be able to read schematic, Bill of materials and Layout file.
• Must have high awareness of Airworthiness, Aeronautic Safety requirements and standards. ( as per ARP4761 or ARP4754 )
• Must have strong experience with aeronautic standard (DO-160 environment , DO-254, ARP4754, ARP4761; APQP)
• Must have strong experience to troubleshoot on electronics and embedded hardware systems to find the root cause and to fix with a suitable solution.
• Must have experience in interfacing with external test facilities for environmental and EMI/EMC and other electrical tests as per MIL-STD and DO-160 standards.
• Should be familiar in developing Qualification Test procedures (QTPs), Qualification Test Reports (QTR), Qualification by similarity reports (QBSR) and other documents required by airborne certification authorities.
• Must be fluent with on Configuration Management data package (Build of Materials, Definition File, Identification, Design Change Rules) Must be fluent with tools and data repositories: as BDDP and PLM/TOL/GED
• Experience in establishing Design Documentation (Requirement, IVVQ procedure, reports)
• Should be familiar with mechanical drawings, wiring diagram reading and understanding.
• Should be familiar in Industrialization, Production process, Testing, (Acceptance test, Screening testing) ideally experience on APQP
• Should be familiar in the IVVQ (Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification) including requirements management.
• Must have good experience in bench test set-up, functional testing and performance evaluation
• Should be familiar with project progress reporting, ensure KPI’s reporting and Risk/opportunity assessment.
• Must have demonstrated leadership skills on complex topics.
• Must be rigorous, organized, autonomous, pro-active and motivated to contain a position within a multidisciplinary team.
• Should be familiar with multi-disciplinary team (BL engineering team, Lab technicians, external labs, Purchase team, ECC Engineering teams and manufacturing teams, …)