Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

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.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Receiver Product Architect
Crawley – Hybrid (Relocation support can be provided)

Thales Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) UK is a principal supplier of UAS, EW and Radar equipment to the UK armed forces, as well as an exporter of these capabilities worldwide.

ISR is a highly complex product development environment, focusing on delivering cutting edge products including:

• Digital Radar Electronic Support Measures (RESM) that provides situational awareness and identify threats even in busy Electronic Transmission Environments
• Radar Electronic Countermeasures (RECM) that can protect assets by denying tactical advantage and distracting incoming threats.

We’re growing and we are looking for ambitious Engineers and Architect to join us on the journey. We are actively recruiting a Receiver Product Architect at an ‘SME’ or Technical Expert level to join us.

Key Responsibilities:

• To lead the design and development and own the product roadmap of receiver solutions for both domestic and export portfolios
• To create a cohesive product line offering and collaborate with other product line architects’ to ensure cohesion and balancing new design with reuse.
• Support the development of engineers through coaching and mentoring
• Architect and optimise receiver systems for performance, key characteristics (such as size, weight, power, sustainability)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal design, driving receiver integration across multiple projects, working closely with both software, systems and hardware teams
• Support product development through entire lifecycle from bid concept to manufacture and in-service support
• Experience and understanding of receiver design, integration and test including but not limited to; Analogue to digital conversion, sub Nyqyist sampling, Fourier Analysis, digital superheterodyne receiver.
• Conduct simulations using Matlab and simulink tool to model receiver performance
• Perform product testing and validation of receivers, ensuring they meet both product, regulatory, safety and cyber requirements
• Adherence to industry standard and regulatory requirements and compliance.

Experience, skills and qualifications required

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or related field
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Significant experience in signal processing, real time multi-giga/terrabit signal processing, high speed processing, FPGA technology including RF SoC, algorithm design and proving, high speed fibre optic interfaces. 
• Experience integrating and qualifying receivers within a larger complex system
• Ability to work confidently with multiple projects and priorities

Nice to have/desirable experience:

• Experience working in Electronic Warfare or similar field
• Familiarity with Naval Defence standards and regulation
• Systems Engineering fundamentals
• Understanding of Radar concepts and principles
• Understanding of directional finding techniques (amplitude/ phase interferometry)

Your Career At Thales UK

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your Competencies in different areas:

• Room and attention to personal development
• Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution
• Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path
• Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group

What we can offer

We are committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Our packages will include significant bonus, a strong pension contribute, private healthcare, development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities. Further support can be provided towards academic and membership attainments.

Security Clearance Statement

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance.  Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years.  In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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