ACTIVE ANTENNA DIGITAL AND POWER S/S ENGINEER

A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures.
Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.
Our Active Antennas engineering team in Rome is looking for a Digital and Power S/S Engineer to take responsibility for the architecture definition, specification and support to verification of the Digital/Power S/S for Radar and Telecommunication Active Antennas.
Activities and tasks.
Drive trade-offs to define power and digital architecture of active antennas, taking into account state-of-art availability of technologies, proposing innovative solutions matching budget and schedule constraints; Specification and supervision of digital and power units.
Support to validation of digital solution using advanced Laboratory (e.
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High-speed Oscilloscope, Logical Analyser, Spectrum Analyzer).
Supervision of validation and support to Flight Equipment Integration and Verification of the developed solutions.
Participation to bids with understanding and discussion of requirements, trade off and fast evaluation of different possible solutions; finalization of pre-design to allow the team to make the quotation.
Support to Risk analysis and evaluation.
Interfacing the customer and suppliers and collaboration with other Thales Alenia Space departments including project leaders, RF, digital an power product lines, industrial engineering, manufacturing and marketing & sales About You.
Education and experience You have a Master Degree in Electrical or Telecommunication Engineering.
You have knowledge on microelectronics cards/components and measurements.
You have knowledge on Digital Beam-Forming techniques.
You are proficient in digital signal processing and complex HW equipment architecture design.
You have at least 5 years of experience in similar role.
Knowledge You have a demonstrable knowledge of.
Circuit design –including high speed applications- and simulation Matlab / Simulink programming Laboratory experience Digital and Mixed-signal PCB design will be considered an asset.
Knowledge of design flow and standard for space applications will be considered an asset.
Knowledge of active antennas will be considered an asset Personal Skills Customer focused, proactive attitude Organized and methodical approach to the work with strong communication skills Strong attitude to achieve results within time and cost constraints Problem solving attitude You are fluent in English both listening and reading.
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