Test Benches Hardware Engineer

Hardware Engineer For Test Benches Engineering Team

Location:

Madrid Tres Cantos, Spain

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. Thales in Spain is a leader in technological solutions applied to Defence, Aeronautics, Security, Transportation, and Space and, furthermore, is a global centre for excellence in Space, Security of Critical Infrastructures, and Transportation.

We are looking for a hardware engineer for the Test Benches Engineering team in Tres Cantos.

Our team is currently comprised of 25 members, mostly engineers, and is one of the Core units of Thales Alenia Space in Spain, as every spacecraft instrument, equipment, and sub-system that is designed and manufactured by our company eventually needs to undergo a thorough electrical and functional validation with our test benches. This last stage, prior to the delivery to the customer, is a key one and demands for robust, safe, automated, well-thought designs of the involved EGSE's, SCOE's, Suitcases, cables, and harnesses that connect the test bench to the unit under test (UUT).

All the hardware elements of a test bench, provided by our hardware engineers, will be controlled thanks to the work of our software engineers in the same Core unit. This combined work results in a complete, automated solution that can perform the specified testing.

Your tasks will include:

• Propose the architecture of the test bench, seeking a balance with the project cost and schedule, engineering best practices, testing requirements, unexpected needs, reusability of the test bench building blocks, and ease of automation.
• Be responsible for the technical performances of the solution.
• Design, develop, integrate, and validate the test bench from a HW point of view, in close cooperation with the SW team to provide the complete solution.
• Lead the specification of modules to be subcontracted, and follow up with the subcontractor.
• Lead the procurement of the test bench elements.
• Lead the documentation of the test bench. Even with internal test benches, a minimum data package is expected.
• Lead the test bench integration and validation, in collaboration with the software engineers of our team, prior to the connection to the UUT.
• Provide support during the UUT campaigns performed with our test benches.
• Learn about the in-house designs and building blocks that are part of our heritage in test benches. Propose improvements and new additions to our portfolio.
• Participate in the project milestones and meetings.
• Be accountable not only to your Core unit teammates but also to the project team members and project lead, who will belong to different engineering disciplines. The IVVQ process is a collaborative work and our company seeks team players.

Skills and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in telecommunication engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, or other similar technical discipline.
• Experience of 3 years in the design and development of automated test benches.
• Experience in the design and debugging of electronic boards and modules, in one or several of these areas: analog, digital, radio frequency, power, optical detection.
• Experience in the use and application of standard and PCI&PXI commercial instrumentation (oscilloscopes, analyzer, meter, generator, sources, data acquisition, and control,...)
• Experience in control protocols: GPIB, USB, I2C, SPI...
• Experience in using design tools (eg. ORCAD, Altium).
• (ideally) Experience in FPGA's and/or VHDL.
• (ideally) Experience in communication buses:
  Space Wire, CAN, 1553...
• (ideally) Experience in C++, Labview, and/or other programming languages.
• (ideally) Experience in agile methodologies: lean, obeya, scrum…
• High level of English is essential. French is a plus.
• Ability to manage and comply with costs and planning.
• Team work, improvement spirit, pragmatic, results oriented, dynamic, accountable.
• Motivated to learn new technologies, space-business processes, and tools.

Kind reminders:

• The nature of this job requires on-site work most of…