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System and V&V Engineer
Job Description
For more than 35 years, Thales acts in Portugal for global Defence and Aerospace markets and promotes and delivers innovative solutions that enhance its customer’s critical systems´ security, on land, sea, air, space and cyberspace, through a technical team of excellence.
As a System and V&V Engineer you will have the opportunity to work in the Airspace Mobility Solutions team, as you will be working in an exciting and technically challenging domain integrating air traffic control and information management systems with sensors.
Requirements:
Degree in Engineering (Computer Science, Electronics, Telecommunications) or Air Traffic Control;
At least 1 year of experience in Systems Engineering, Verification and Validation of complex systems, preferably in the Air Traffic Control domain;
Experience in test preparation and execution: documentation, testing, problem analysis and defect reporting;
Written and Oral proficiency in English;
Availability to travel abroad for periods up to 1 month – each 2 or 3 months.
Responsibilities:
Communicate with stakeholders to understand operational objectives and translate them into engineering requirements;
Develop infrastructure engineering definitions and documentation aligned with project needs;
Provide operational and functional support to end-users and internal engineering teams, resolving technical inquiries;
Write and execute test cases to verify system requirements, including documentation, problem analysis and defect reporting;
Track and validate Problem Change Report (PCR) corrective actions in coordination with multidisciplinary engineering teams;
Perform validation activities during Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) and Site Acceptance Tests (SAT), including reporting and customer briefings.
The Group invests more than €4 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies.
In 2024, the Group generated sales of €20.6 billion.
For our more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries we open up visionary perspectives, realise individual career paths and enable creative freedom. This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive. With our sustainable value-focused management we support diversity actively.
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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? Your contact Tiago Vital is looking forward to your online application on our Career portal.
Tiago Vital – Talent Acquisition Partner
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Job Details
- Category
- Aerospace Engineering
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Paco De Arcos - Q45
- Posted
- Feb 3, 2026, 07:00 PM
- Listed
- Feb 5, 2026, 03:22 PM
- Last updated
- Feb 12, 2026, 04:00 AM
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