Flight Management System (FMS) Designer (f/m), Toulouse

Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus champions innovative technologies and offers some of the world’s most fuel efficient and quiet aircraft. Airbus has sold over 13.800 aircraft to more than 360 customers worldwide. Airbus has achieved more than 8,000 deliveries since the first Airbus aircraft entered into service. Headquartered in Toulouse, France.

Tasks

As a Flight Management System Designer you will be responsible for a wide range of tasks covering the full product lifecycle including R&T activities, specification, development and modification. It implies:

• Liaising with our internal customers and stakeholders to understand and address FMS development requests.
• Specifying new Flight Management functions & incremental improvements, including contribution to Single Pilot Operation and Autonomy.
• Working with flight test & training teams to ensure operational aspects are fully covered.
• Specifying and managing projects, development activities, Verification & Validation activities (including laboratory, ground & flight test).
• Supporting design process improvements
• Supporting all related safety & certification activities
• Managing the associated suppliers and sub-contractors
• You will therefore have a large and rewarding number of interfaces including major multi-national suppliers, other aircraft system teams, laboratory and flight test teams, civil and military aircraft programs, safety, certification, airworthiness, customer support, etc.
• You will be in the innovative, challenging, visible and multicultural heart of the Airbus systems design office in Toulouse. This offers great opportunities for you to develop your technical, project management & customer interface skills, to apply your creativity and team spirit, to contribute to team wellbeing, and to boost your career within Airbus!

Profile

• An aeronautical / systems / avionics engineering degree (or equivalent), and ideally experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Flight Management / guidance & control design and support
• Systems software / hardware specification and development
• Flight Physics
• Big Data & Digitalization
• Curiosity and appetite for complex functions and system development.
• Ability to learn continuously, autonomy, sense of prioritization and ability to take a step back and drive the bigger picture.
• Ability to work with proactivity, flexibility and assertiveness to strict timescales as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team.
• Communication, persuasion & influencing skills, decision making ability, and a pro-active approach to problem solving.
• A willingness to learn and openness to change, new methodologies & technologies
• The willingness to occasionally travel both nationally & internationally.
• Knowledge of airline flight operations or an experience in systems customer support or systems testing would be a valuable asset.
• Negotiation level in English is required.
• Negotiation level of French is desirable.