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System Engineer

Thales Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 12 May 2025

Financial

  • Estimate: $70k - $100k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Hybrid
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Unspecified
  • English: Fluent

Position

Thales is looking for a Systems Engineer to join our engineering team at AstraUTM. In this pivotal role, you will liaise with Project Managers and Clients, collaborating daily with the Software Team to ensure that system requirements are detailed and traceability is maintained.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Define the system requirements by translating stakeholder needs into technical specifications.
  • Define detailed functional, performance, and environmental requirements, ensuring compliance with standards like ED-109.
  • Ensure requirements are complete, consistent, and testable.
  • Contribute to procedures for system-level testing.
  • Continuously update your expertise and design innovative solutions to meet customer needs.
  • Solve complex problems in a challenging environment.

Work Experience Requirements:

  • Proven experience in Software and/or Systems Engineering.
  • Experience in writing system specifications (functional and non-functional requirements).
  • Familiarity with engineering processes and tools.
  • Ability to adapt and respond to change.

Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in Engineering (Electronics, Aeronautical/Space Engineering, Computer Science) or related field.

Preferred Skills:

  • Knowledge of development assurance standards (such as ED-153, ED-109A, ARP 4754A, ED-12C).
  • Understanding of the operational and regulatory environment of Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM).
  • Experience with drone operations.
  • Ability to quickly understand the system, stakeholders, interactions, products, and environment.
  • Team player with a collaborative mindset in an international setting.
  • Resourceful, analytical, structured, open-minded, curious, rigorous, and logical.

Language Requirements:

  • Fluent in English (both spoken and written).

Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
Work Conditions: Full-time, Hybrid

At Thales, we provide CAREERS and not just jobs. Our mobility policy enables employees to develop their careers at home and abroad, encouraging both growth in current expertise and exploration of new fields. Embracing flexibility is at the core of our working approach. Great journeys start here; apply now!

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