Job Description:

A vacancy for an Functional and System Design Responsible for Optronic systems (m/f) has arisen within Airbus Helicopters in Marignane.

Your working environment:

Major economic hub with Marseille-Provence Airport, Marignane is a dynamic city in the southeast of France. It is located near the cities of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, which host a rich cultural and tourist offer. Close to the beaches of the Côte Bleue, it offers many options for water sports activities.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly.    Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

How we care for you:

• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.

• Work / Life Balance:  Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.

• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.

• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects  with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

Mission
You will join a team of 60+ system engineers in the "Situational Awareness and Mission Management" department in charge of terrain/weather/traffic awareness functions, vision enhancement and targeting systems, data-links as well as mission management systems for all Airbus (e-)VTOL products.
Your mission will consist of system engineering activities and helicopter level integration of Optronic systems such as Augmented Reality Systems, Enhanced Vision Systems, Electro Optical Systems, Targeting Systems.

• This position will require a security clearance or will require being eligible for clearance by the recognised authorities.
• Priority will be given to employees whose position is impacted by a workforce adaptation initiative.
• Disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given special consideration.

Tasks & Responsbilities

Your responsibilities will include:

• End to End Functional chain definition
• Requirements engineering
• Definition and implementation of operational concepts and use cases for Optronic systems
• Ensure planning at equipment and helicopter level for development and qualification
• Participate in offer management and contributing to product sourcing policy
• Assess suppliers’ offers with other stakeholders
• Interface with project management, purchasing, sales department and other project stakeholders throughout the organization
• Interface with / management of suppliers and customers
• Proactively control and monitor suppliers during the development phase, with the aim of safeguarding technical requirement
• Technical responsible for the integration of optronic systems into complex helicopter avionics
• Manage suppliers during development phase
• Support rig, ground and flight testing of the equipment
• Ensure the qualification / certification of equipment and the according functions
• Technical responsible for optronic systems integration
• Apply of agile development methodology
• Benchmark our solutions with state of the art optronic ones (e.g. in the field of augmented reality, laser technology, image processing)
• Actively contribute to definition and execution of research and technology (R&T) activities and optronic systems product strategy
• Supporting knowledge exchange within Airbus (all divisions)

Required skills:

• Academic studies in the field of Physics, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or similar
• Comprehensive experience in the design, development, engineering and/or integration of optronic systems (e.g. Augmented Reality Systems, Enhanced Vision Systems, Electro Optical Systems, Targeting systems)
• A previous experience in optronic systems (e.g. Augmented Reality Systems, Enhanced Vision Systems, Electro Optical Systems, Targeting Systems) development and integration in an airborne platform is mandatory
• Knowledge in systems engineering, requirements engineering and integration in the field of avionics
• A previous experience with agile methodology (Scrum, SAFe) would be beneficial
• Experience in Supplier Management
• Team Spirit, good communication skills and experience in stakeholder management
• Language skills: English business fluent / negotiation level, knowledge of German, French or Spanish would be an advantage

This position requires a security clearance or will require being eligible for clearance by the recognized authorities.

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This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Helicopters SAS

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Classe Emploi (France): Classe G13

Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Sub-system development <JF-EN-EQ>

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At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.