Solution Architect/System Engineer Electronics

Solution Architect/System Engineer Electronics

Thales

Zürich, Switzerland

Your mission

As a Solution Architect/System Engineer Electronics role within Thales Alenia Space, you will:

• Be responsible for working out, stabilizing & maintaining the Solution architecture for Bids and Projects all along lifecycle incld. design & execution of PCB designs;
• Responsible for product development as Electrical Architect within the TAS CH systems engineering organization;
• Lead the architecture and requirements definition throughout the project life cycle and within the agreed programmatic boundary conditions (cost and schedule):
  • Analysis of customer and stakeholder requirements;
  • Define the development and verification logic;
  • Definition of interfaces and requirements for external partners;
  • Definition, analysis and trade-off of system concepts in multi-disciplinary teams;
  • Definition of power conversion, control and data architecture;
  • Setting up/flow-down budgets (mass, power, accuracy, TM/TC, etc. );
  • Risk management;
  • Preparation of key project documentation (e.g. development plans, design description and justification reports, interface control documents);
  • Verification control throughout the project;
  • Documentation of the activities and results of the system configuration and Support Action Item management;
  • Participation in the preparation of offers for new projects;
  • Perform presentations and reviews internally and externally;
  • Technical contact with internal and external agencies and customers with the project.
• Extended responsibilities - Design printed circuit boards, establish schematics and layout of circuit card assembly. Design and verify by review, analysis and test the conceptual and detailed development of electronics boards for space application and for electrical ground support equipment.

We look forward to that

• You hold a master Degree in Electronics or Electrical Engineering;
• You have 7+ years’ experience in Electronics/Electrical Product development;
• Good knowledge of eCAD design tools like Siemens EDA Xpedition;
• Knowledge of Monte-carlo/circuit simulation tools (OrCAD PSpice);
• Knowledge of Model Based System Engineering is an advantage;
• Knowledge of state-of-the-art Requirements Management tools (eg. IBM DOORS);
• Knowledge of electronics circuit design and simulation (Pspice, LTSpice, Matlab/Simulink, Modelica etc.);
• Ability to communicate fluently in both spoken and written English, German is an advantage;
• Pronounced self-motivation and commitment in connection with a strong sense of responsibility and reliability;
• Communication skills and proven experience in working;
• Experience in Systems Engineering, architecting and problem solving is compulsory;
• Experience in product development throughout product life cycle is compulsory;
• Deep and wide theoretical and practical experience in the development of electronics hardware (minimum 5 years industry experience);
• Experience in PCB/CCA design (schematics entry and layout) for various applications like control boards, power boards, communication electronics;
• Experience with RF design is an advantage;
• Experience in space or aviation is an advantage;
• Experience in Embedded Software/VHDL is an advantage;
• Experience in Assembly, Integration and Test (AIT) is an advantage.

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