Instrumentation Engineer for Flight Test installation - Optronic F/M

Job Description:

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer - Fiber Optics (m/f) to join our Physical Measurement department based in Toulouse, France.

You will join a team responsible for the development of physical measurements. Within this team, you will manage fiber-optic measurement development projects, ensure measurement adequacy and compliance, and provide operational support.

Your working environment:

Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor activities!

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.

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.

Your challenges:

• Gather and analyze requirements to specify, design, and deliver Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) and its core systems (ground stations, hardware, and digital systems).
• Define, release, and integrate FTI architecture and sizing, ensuring strict compliance with Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Performance (QCDP) targets.
• Drive technology maturity to successfully transition systems toward full industrialization.
• Ensure configuration control for FTI systems and steer global logistics, including investments (CapEx), export control, and inventory management.
• Coordinate operational activities and provide Level 2 technical support to maintenance and flight test teams.

Your boarding pass:

• Background in Physical Measurement, Electronics, and Optronics, with initial professional experience in a similar technical environment.
• Experience in strength of materials (RDM) applicable to the field of physical measurement.
• Metrology: Familiarity with measurement uncertainty calculations.
• Optronics: Knowledge of optronic systems is desired/preferred.
• Project Management: Basic knowledge of project management (budgeting, scheduling, tendering/RFPs).
• Languages: Advanced proficiency in English (working language) and operational proficiency in French.

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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 Operations SAS

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Classe Emploi (France): Classe F12

Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Testing

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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.