Airbus UpNext - Software development Leader (m/f)

Job Description:

Airbus Upnext is launching a new cross divisional demonstrator that will deliver strategic outputs to all Airbus divisions. It will help reinforcing knowledge and capacity to propose disruptive and differentiating avionics architecture and advanced awareness sensors to enrich Airbus Helicopters future products. 

Following initial exploration from VERTEX and other UpNext demonstrators, sense & avoidance technologies such as cameras and LiDARs as well as aircraft robust positioning even in case of GPS loss will be further developed up to high level of maturity for helicopter use. Those technologies will be used to increase the crew's awareness of the environment through a novel Human Machine Interface, better adapted to new on-board technologies.

This job is based in Marignane, comes with limited contract (CDI-C) linked to the deliverable of the demonstrator (end of June 2028), starrting ASAP.

 

Main missions:

As Software development Leader (m/f), you organize and dispatch the tasks to the software developer team, control the progress, the respect of the procedure. You guide them, you boost them !

You will:
 

• Be the Main technical interface with the computers partners.
• Set-up the development environment and define the associated tools, processes and methods.
• Participate to the avionic architecture, especially as regard as the core computer, and the vision based computer
• Participate to the integration of these components  on the platform, ensuring the adequate connections between the different techno bricks.

You are accountable of the technobrick(s) maturation up scaling and the formal assessment and passionated and impatient about putting methods and processes in place to achieve your targets. You are the type of person who thinks about “how things can be done” rather than “if they can be done”.

You work collaboratively and with humility and are a constant learner about how to improve the performance.

A healthy dose of impatience with processes and bureaucracy, and willingness to move fast and take risks are essential attributes.

Your Boarding Pass:

• Engineering degree with an innovation flavor

• You have more than 10 years of experience in helicopters avionics SW development

• You are a natural technical leader, able to lead a team of SW developers towards results exceeding standard

• Write high quality structured bare metal and Linux-based software for embedded processors (e.g. ARM)

• Embedded software developer mastering : C/C++ & Rust programming languages, Fluency in POSIX shell script and Python, GPU programming language, Experience writing Linux kernel code, Low level driver interface (camera, uart, arinc429, CAN, publish/subscribe protocol), Library (OpenCV, cuda, ROS, PCL, Wampcc), Continuous integration & delivery (Docker, Jenkins), version control system (Git, SVN).

• Knowledge of AGILE-Scrums methodology is mandatory

• Negotiation level in French & English is required

• This position will require some business travel to Toulouse

Especially:

• You are an enterprising person, flexible and capable of adapting to changing environments. Able to self-manage in a non-hierarchical environment, understanding what the organization needs, acting and making decisions accordingly.

• You are a hands-on person, solution oriented and communicative. You have negotiation skills.

• You have and share the values of transparency, courage, humility, empathy and care for each other. You are a Team-Player.

• You are willing to have fun ;)

Description of Airbus UpNext
Founded in 2017, Airbus UpNext is actively shaping the future of aerospace by using flying demonstrators to evaluate, mature and validate new products and services.

Designed as a talent incubator, Airbus UpNext is a place where you can act and think like a startup while building on the strong expertise of Airbus, a place where you are empowered to challenge and test new processes and ways of working. 

Our mission is:

• To identify the trends that could disrupt the future of the aerospace industry and evaluate them to demonstrate their potential as a viable product.

• To accelerate traditional research cycles and prototype development to achieve proof of concept in a real environment and at a convincing scale and speed.

• To develop real-world applications for emerging aerospace technologies, thereby driving their maturity and increasing their value.

• To be THE reference for Technology Value Assessment

Our Values: #Keep it Simple #Be Audacious #Explore together

Our DNA: #Speed of Execution #Care for each other #Open to the world

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 ExO Autonomy SAS

Employment Type:

Fixed term

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Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Software Engineering

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