Avionics Systems Architect (M/F)

Airbus; Marseille; Sur place; EUR 50 000 - 70 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading aerospace company is seeking an experienced engineer in Avionics to work in their Marseille location. You will collaborate across projects, anticipate avionics needs, and define effective solutions. The role requires fluency in French and English, alongside 5-10 years of experience. If you have a dynamic mindset and a focus on customer satisfaction, this position offers an attractive salary and numerous development opportunities.

Prestations

Attractive salary

Employee stock purchase plan

Extra days-off for special occasions

Health insurance coverage

Upskilling opportunities

Qualifications

• 5-10 years or more experience in the required field.
• Able to work in complex environments and prioritize effectively.
• Strong problem-solving attitude and team mindset.

Responsabilités

• Anticipate future needs and possible avionics solutions.
• Define operational concepts and requirements for avionics systems.
• Lead verification activities at avionics level.

Connaissances

Fluent in French

Fluent in English

Rigorous and methodic

Customer satisfaction oriented

Dynamic and team spirit

Formation

Engineer in Avionics, Electronics, or Systems Engineering

Outils

Doors

Visio

Reqtify

Mantis

Nectar

Windchill

Cameo

3D Experience

Description du poste

Job Description

This position is opened in the "Avionics and Systems Architecture" Department within the Design Office Directorate. You will work in a transnational department, composed mainly of Avionics Architects spread over different civil and military helicopter projects, in close cooperation with other Architects and be interfaced with avionics, vehicle, projects, safety, certification and customers support stakeholders.

Your working environment

Major economic hub 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.

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 centre, 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

The main missions of the Avionics and Systems Architecture department are, among others, to:

• Anticipate future needs and possible avionics solutions, from concept analysis up to feasibility during Research and Pre‑Dev stages
• Ensure retrofit & upgrades of our fleet in service
• Keep our avionics up‑to‑date (obsolescence solving, avionics improvements, introduction of new capabilities/features), in the frame of future developments
• Define, develop and certify the most effective avionics solutions
• Participate to avionics strategy at system level
• Contribute to technology roadmaps
• Contribute to System Engineering set‑up for Avionics (process, methods & tools)
• Manage transverse functions

Depending on the project stage, you will have to:

• Collect stakeholders needs (from Projects/Programs, Marketing, Support, end‑users and customers)
• Define operational concepts and use‑cases for the overall avionics
• Perform functional analysis and define functional architecture (including functional flows)
• Specify all requirements (functional and non‑functional ones) allocated to avionics system
• Validate and cascade the overall set of avionics requirements to avionics functions
• Define all avionics external interfaces
• Propose the "most effective" avionics design, resulting from trade‑off, based on constraints and all others influencing criteria (safety/availability, compliance to customer needs, cost/weight/volume, re‑use, family concept, industrial strategy /partnerships, ...)
• Lead Filter Boards at avionics level for problem reports
• Ensure the overall verification activities at avionics level
• Prepare the technical substantiation materials for Qualification/Certification at avionic level - lead the flight clearance activity -
• Perform interface with other helicopter systems (vehicle, ...) and ground segment / open world

On a daily basis, you will also play a key role in System Engineering approaches deployment, promoting the extended usage of state‑of‑the‑art MBSE methodologies and monitoring such a deployment within Avionics Architecture System domain, from requirements but also during design and intermediate stages to ultimate V&V process. You will act also strong support to broadcast such a way of working to all other stakeholders you will have to work with.

A System Engineering process, based on ARP4754, is supporting all the daily tasks and requires a certain level of formalization.

Your profile

Engineer in Avionics, or Electronics or Systems Engineering

Experience: 5-10 years or more

Languages: Fluent in French and English

Required qualities

• Rigorous and methodic in his/her daily tasks
• "Customer satisfaction" oriented
• "Open‑minded" and "welcome problems" attitude
• Dynamic and having a strong "team spirit" mindset
• Able to work in complex environments and to manage easily priorities/urgencies
• Transparent and report issue as soon as it appears
• Positive and constructive

Tools (plus)

• Doors
• Visio
• Reqtify
• Mantis
• Nectar
• Windchill
• Cameo
• 3D Experience (TRA/TRM/EEW/RGD)

Company and Employment

Company: Airbus Helicopters SAS

Employment Type: Permanent

Class Employment (France): Class G14

Experience Level: Professional

Job Family: Chief Engineering & Architecture

EEO statement

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