# Design Authority - Flight Avionics

Location: Crawley, United KingdomThales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services. We are seeking a Design Authority to take on a critical technical leadership role within a complex aerospace and defence environment. This position sits at the heart of engineering governance, providing independent assurance that solutions are viable, compliant, safe, and deliverable across the full lifecycle-from bid through to in-service delivery. This is not a hands-on design role. It is a high-impact position focused on technical oversight, decision authority, and risk validation across advanced avionics and mission systems programmes. Shaping future skies together for a safer planet. We contribute to all major aircraft programmes-Air Transport, Business Jets, Military Aircraft, Helicopters, eVTOL and UAVs-and we’re committed to crea

- **Id**: 3803258
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/thales-group-design-authority-flight-avionics>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Crawley, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T13:32:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5636
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Identity Management, Satellite Manufacturing, Electronic Warfare, Avionics & Flight Control

## Company

- **Id**: 143
- **Name**: Thales Group
- **Domain**: thalesgroup.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/thales>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 262
- **Ghost share**: 0.015
- **Stale share**: 0.71
- **Repost share**: 0.015
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 48
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **DO-178C** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T12:27:55Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 48
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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