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System (Platform) Engineer

Job Description

Location: Paco De Arcos - Q45, Portugal

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 Engineer you will have the opportunity to work in the international and multidisciplinary Above Water Systems team, and be responsible for the design, development and validation of a command & control system.

Responsibilities:

  • Discuss operational needs together with the customer;

  • Design the architecture of the command & control system

  • Define the functional behavior of the system;

  • Define interfaces between the Thales command & control system and 3rd party subsystems;

  • Manage technical issues of subcontracts during the development of the Mission Solution;

  • Demonstrate the solution to the customer.

About you:

  • Degree in electrical engineering, computer science, aerospace engineering or similar field;

  • Experience as a System Engineer;

  • Communication skills and able to work in multidisciplinary teams;

  • Fluency in Portuguese and English;

  • Flexibility with respect to working abroad and being part of an international environment.

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.

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? Your contact Tiago Vital is looking forward to your online application on our Career portal.

Tiago Vital – Talent Acquisition Partner

tiago.vital@thalesgroup.com

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Job Details

Category
Software
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
Paco De Arcos - Q45
Posted
Dec 14, 2025, 07:00 PM
Listed
Jan 21, 2026, 07:17 AM
Last updated
Feb 21, 2026, 12:25 AM

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