Hardware Engineering Technical Leader

Location: Tubize, Belgium

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Thales in Belgium is part of a leading internationally technology group in the defence and security, aerospace, digital identity, and security markets. In a world characterised by uncertainty, we ensure that our customers, partners and employees can pursue new paths with confidence. For a future we can all trust.

Say HI* – to your career as

Hardware Engineering Technical Leader

At the Tubize site

In Tubize, you will join more than 300 colleagues recognized by domestic and international partners for expertise on products such as Radio Frequency (RF) Products, C4ISR, Crypto Global Solution, MACS (Aeronautical Intercom) and many others.

Today the Group employs more than 1,000 people across nine sites in Belgium. Discover all Thales activities in Belgium here.

Your mission

• Support the development of defence and industrial products and systems in the RF/HF, antenna, and communication domains, acting as a senior technical contributor to help managers manage multiple parallel programmes and priorities.
• Play an active role in bid management and technical offer preparation for defence and industrial customers, including architecture definition, technical compliance matrices, risk and opportunity analysis, and contributions to cost, schedule, and feasibility assessments.
• Contribute to technical arbitration across projects by analysing trade-offs between performance, cost, risk, qualification, and industrial constraints, consolidating inputs from hardware, software, systems, and industrial teams to support robust technical decisions.
• Support the Head of the Hardware Department in operational coordination activities, including workload balancing, prioritisation of critical topics, and identification of skills or resource bottlenecks, without direct people management responsibility.
• Act as a key coordination point in a matrix organisation, actively participating in technical, project, and cross-department meetings to ensure alignment between engineering, industrialisation, quality, supply chain, and programme management.
• Interface with internal and external stakeholders, including program teams, partners, and defence/industrial customers, to clarify requirements, justify technical choices, manage technical discussions, and contribute to issue resolution.
• Ensure clear, structured, and concise communication of technical topics, adapting the level of detail to the audience, from engineering specialists to senior management, both in written technical documentation and in formal reviews.
• Collaborate effectively with international teams, partners, and customers in a defence and industrial context, leveraging fluency in English and French/Dutch and the ability to operate in multicultural, multi-site environments.

We are looking for

• an electronics engineer with 15+ years of experience in RF/HF hardware design, with a focus on antenna design, communications systems, and high-power applications
• proven track record in managing R&D initiatives and leading engineering teams
• expertise in analogue circuit simulation tools (Spice, ADS, MW Office)
• strong problem-solving, debugging, and failure-analysis skills
• experience with reliability analysis and optimization at board and product levels
• experience in military communications systems or railway safety solutions
• innovative, creative, and an avid learner with a wide interest in technology
• strong mental abstraction capacity and ability to work in international, cross‑functional teams
• excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a taste for international contacts
• fluency in English and French and/or Dutch.

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. The Group is investing in digital and deep tech innovations – Big Data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust.

For more than 20 years, Thales has pursued a robust corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy based on the highest international standards. The principles behind this policy are now captured in the company’s purpose of building a future we can all trust, adopted in 2020.

Say HI* – Your journey to us

At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? We are looking forward to your online application. Great journeys start here, apply now!

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