Thales Defense & Security, Inc. is a global company serving the defense, federal, and commercial markets with innovative solutions for the ground tactical, airborne and avionics, naval/maritime, and public safety and security domains. In addition to mission-critical communication systems, the company provides helmet-mounted displays and motion tracking technologies; SATCOM terminals; advanced sonar systems; and data protection solutions. Furthermore, the company serves as a gateway for technology, leveraging Thales-wide solutions—such as combat management systems; naval, airborne, and ground ISR; and electronic warfare—to address U.S. requirements.

Top Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Yearly Incentive Bonus Program
• Generous 401(k) program (up to 7% company contribution) with 100% immediate vesting
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid wellness, vacation, and holiday leave
• Paid family care, maternity and parental leaves
• 9/80 work schedule (every other Friday off)

• Support Business Development with customer meetings, requirements elicitation, architecture development, and systems implementation.
• Provide subject matter expertise as a project design authority of HF, UHF, VHF, and L-Band systems.
• Support product development teams with use case analysis, requirements capture and allocation, architectural analysis and design, unit level testing, integration, verification and validation efforts, and transition to manufacturing.
• Collaborate with our European divisions in the development of new products and product roadmaps capturing unique requirements for the U.S. market.
• Develop technical proposals and support cost estimations.
• Evaluate competing product and solution offerings.
• Represent Thales at relevant industry forums.
• Serve as a customer liaison, supporting design reviews and other technical interchanges.
• Support field installation, testing, evaluation, and troubleshooting of equipment.
• Support government certification testing of equipment.
• Support spectrum certification.

• U.S. Citizenship required. - Applicants selected may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• BSEE, BSCS, or equivalent.
• 8+ years as a Design Engineer.
• Must have strong presentation and writing skills. Fluent in English.
• Experience with system level design, development, and testing of tactical, secure, state-of-the-art military communications systems.
• Experience with requirements elicitation, decomposition, traceability and lifecycle management.
• Experience with portable, battery operated embedded systems design.
• Knowledge of RF design, Digital design, Software design, and Information Security.
• Experience working in a laboratory environment with RF and Digital test equipment.
• Experience working with Software Defined Radios (SDRs).
• Experience with mobile ad-hoc networking waveforms.

• Ability to comply with all Company guidelines, policies, procedures and embrace Company Core Values.

For specific questions about this job posting, candidates may contact the recruiter at careers@thalesdsi.com.

Thales champions inclusion and we believe diversity strengthens the fabric of our culture. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer/AA/Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled. Thales is an E-Verify employer.

Thales is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age or any other characteristic protected by law.

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