Auto Flight System Design Engineer (m/f)

Description

The company is a commercial aircraft manufacturer, and this role sits in its Flight Control department in Toulouse, France.

You will join a team that links what pilots need with how aircraft systems are designed.

The Auto-flight System work aims to improve aircraft safety and automate flight further.

Toulouse, in southwest France, is a major centre for aeronautics and European space research. It has an international airport and lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, near the Pyrenees, so outdoor activities are easy to reach.

Responsibilities

• Help shape functional and operational specification changes to the Auto Flight System, from preliminary design through to certification.
• Write detailed specifications with formal tools such as SAO and SCADE, meeting schedule, cost and quality targets.
• Set the interfaces with neighbouring systems: Flight Management, Navigation, Radionavigation, Surveillance, Display and Warnings.
• Explain and defend design choices, performance and limits to flight test engineers and test pilots.
• Oversee internal and external coding suppliers, and carry out validation, verification and airworthiness certification work.

Requirements

• Professional experience in real-time embedded systems engineering, using requirement-based or model-based systems engineering.
• Hands-on use of design specification tools and languages such as SCADE.
• Working knowledge of flight operations and the avionics and flight control systems behind them.
• Ability to negotiate and work well with multidisciplinary, cross-domain and international stakeholders.
• Working English at negotiation level. Conversational French is an asset.

Conditions

Permanent contract, grade F11 under the French classification.

Flexible working arrangements are offered wherever the work allows.

The company welcomes applications regardless of background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, success-based pay and profit sharing, plus a company savings plan and an optional employee share purchase plan.
• Extra days off for special occasions, the option to transfer holiday days, and a staff council with social, cultural and sports activities.
• Supplementary health cover including disability, invalidity and death benefits. Depending on the site: health centre, concierge services, gym and a carpooling app.
• Access to more than 10,000 e-learning courses, certification routes, expert career paths, accelerated development programmes, and national and international mobility.
• If you are not a 100% fit for the role, you can still apply. The company offers tailored development to support your growth.