Technical Lead - Test Bench Design

Location: Bangalore - Indraprastha, India

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

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.

Test Bench Design – Technical Lead

Thales India Engineering Competency Center in Bangalore is seeking a Technical Lead engineer role. In this role, you will be responsible for leading Test Bench architectural design, Test Bench system design, Integration, perform product functional testing and perform product qualification tests for various defense applications and products like RADARs, Electronics Warfare systems and other Defense products to meet the customer requirements in term of schedule, cost and quality on your project.

Qualifications: B.Tech in Electronics, computer science engineering or equivalent with 8 + years of relevant experience. Higher qualifications of Post-graduation is desirable. Domain experience in RADARs, Electronics Warfare systems, Avionics and Defense systems design is desirable

Responsibilities:

• Technical responsible of developing Test bench / test means architecture, Test Bench hardware components that verify UUT electrically, functionally and performance evaluation
• Test bench integration and validation, working closely with multi discipline teams
• Test validation and follow up with UUT in the lab including environmental test set-ups
• Collaborative work applying quality standards and internal processes
• Follow and derive functional and technical specifications and standards
• Preparation of the associated project documentation and review

Skills & experience:

• Must have 8+ years of experience in Test Bench architecture design using COTS test & measurement equipment, custom design interface test adapters, PCBAs, NI Hardware including PXI systems, interface cards etc.
• Must have experience of proposing optimal solutions using COTS hardware (FPGA, SoCs, RASPI-4, SBCs) and hands on interfacing processor systems with hardware including low-level drivers.
• Experience in testing and in test equipment for measurement and control, including bus and communications protocols
• Problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Design experience of ATE, designing electrical schematics, Cable Hardness design and drawings
• Experience of using communication interfaces of MIL-STD-1553B, GPIB, RS 485 / 422, CAN etc
• Must have experience to ensure the reporting progress of the project along with KPI
• Must have experience to manage risks and opportunities
• Must be rigorous, organized, autonomous and proactive, and motivated by a position within a multidisciplinary team.
• Must have demonstrated leadership skills on complex topics.
• Must have experience of working with multi-disciplinary team (BL engineering team, External suppliers, external labs, Purchase team, ECC Engineering teams and manufacturing teams, …)

Desirable skills & experience: Test bench architecture, Radio Frequency testing, Front-end electronics testing, NI Hardware PXI systems, Test scripting, VHDL, IVVQ, System Engineering

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