Avionics Electronic Team Lead

About Exotrail

Space is becoming more strategic and competitive than ever. Tomorrow’s space leaders will not simply launch satellites into orbit, they will be able to move them, reposition them, extend their lifetime, and maximize their performance in space.

Since 2017, Exotrail has been developing and operating cutting-edge in-space mobility solutions for commercial, institutional, and defense customers. From our high-performance propulsion system spaceware™ to our orbital transfer vehicle spacevan™, we enable satellites to go farther, stay operational longer, and achieve more.

Today, more than 200 Exotrailers across Massy and Toulouse are working together to make space operations more efficient and sustainable.

Backed by over €75 million in funding, we are pursuing a clear mission:

Making space a sustainable frontier for future generations.

Job Description

We are looking for a Avionics Electronic Team Lead at our Massy site, to support the rapid growth.

Attached to the Spaceware Engineering Team, you will be responsible for the technical leadership, operational management, and people development of the Avionics Engineering Department, covering both Hardware/Electronics Engineering and Embedded Software Engineering. The role ensures the design, development, integration, validation, and continuous improvement of embedded electronic and software systems that support the company's products, while meeting performance, quality, cost, and schedule objectives.

This role will be interacting with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.

Main responsibilities

Team Management

• Lead, coach, and develop the team. You may also participate in recruiting future team members.
• Set objectives, conduct performance reviews, and support career development.
• Foster technical excellence, collaboration between the teams, continuous improvement, innovation, and the sharing of knowledge.

Oversee team activities

• Define team priorities based on project needs and development milestones
• Ensure on-time, high-quality delivery of simulation activities within resource constraints.
• Allocate resources and manage competing priorities across projects.

Technical Leadership

• Act as the technical authority for Hardware Engineering and lead technical design reviews.
• Review and validate major technical decisions and system architectures.
• Ensure designs meet requirements (performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost efficiency)
• Support teams in solving complex technical challenges.

Hardware Strategy

• Drive improvements in simulation methods, automation and standardisation.
• Develop multi-physics simulation capabilities across Structures, Thermal and CFD.
• Evaluate and deploy new simulation tools and best practices.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Engineering, Systems, Design, Test, Industrialisation, Quality and Project Management teams, and represent the simulation organisation with customers and external partners when required.

Preferred Experience

Master's degree or PhD in Electronics, Embedded Systems, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.

• 8–12+ years experience in electronic hardware design or embedded systems. Ideally both.
• Proven experience managing technical engineering teams.
• Experience in a complex industrial environment.
• Solid understanding of embedded software architectures. Hands-on embedded software development experience is considered a strong advantage.

In-depth expertise in embedded software development is a significant advantage, but is not essential provided the candidate is able to effectively lead subject‑matter experts and foster close collaboration between the hardware and software teams.

Technical Skills Required

• Deep understanding Hardware: Electronic architecture, Analog & digital electronics, PCB design, Microcontrollers, FPGA (desirable), Communication buses (SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, Ethernet, USB), EMC/EMI, Electronic reliability, Hardware verification & qualification; And/Or Embedded Sofware: Embedded C/C++, RTOS, Software architecture, device drivers, communication protocols, software integration, configuration management.
• Experience with one of several of the following tools: Altium Designer, Cadence OrCAD/Allegro, KiCad or equivalent, Laboratory equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.), Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI or equivalent, Jira, Azure DevOps or similar.

Knowledge of functional safety or aerospace standards such as IEC 61508, ISO 26262, DO-178C, DO-254, IEC 62304, or equivalent is ideal.

Soft Skills Required

• Team l