Job Description:
Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Avionics Network Architect (f/m) to join our Avionics Products Development department based in Toulouse, France.
You will join a team of ~15 people based in Toulouse, within Avionics & Simulation Domain that is Airbus avionics equipment internal supplier but also the expertise center (so-called 'Chamber of Reference') for this perimeter.
The actual context is the development of several brand new computers based on product lines strategy (i.e. using hardware & software bricks) while supporting existing avionics products and also preparing the future avionic products (targeting disruptive computers);
Along with the development and the preparation of the future, we also establish new Ways of Working in order to adjust them to new technologies and/or to be more efficient.
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:
Within this exciting and challenging context, you will play a key role in:
The definition/selection of the network at system level;
The development & implementation of new system communication buses / new system messaging principles in line with the network definition/capability (e.g. incl. end system and switches);
The support of legacy system communication buses;
Regarding network at system level, you will contribute to its definition/selection in close collaboration with the Design Office's system designers.
You will also steer collaboration with academic partners in order to demonstrate network performances and resilience to failures.
New system communication buses / new system messaging principle are AFDX & Ethernet based. In this frame, your main objective is to secure their determinism and to define the way to efficiently use it through the following activities:
Defining (*) the strategy / the plan (involving internal & external partners) to prove their determinism;
Defining (*) the messaging principles/mechanisms (dedicated to functions using the new communication buses);
Following their maturity throughout the development and contribute to related V&V definition activities;
Contributing to safety analysis and demonstration for certification;
Actively defining new buses roadmap
In the frame of the ?Chamber of Reference', auditing technical solution upon Design Office requests
Legacy communication buses are Ethernet, A429, RS485, CAN, MIL-STD-1553 based (for the main ones). In this frame, your main objectives is to support them though the following activities:
Following in-service behaviour of legacy buses;
Lead in-service legacy buses problem analysis;
Lead trade-off dedicated to define/choose best solution to improve their in-service behaviour and/or to solve encountered problems;
Contribute to the legacy buses roadmap definition;
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(*) Definition has to be made by challenging - if required - the needs with regards to complexity, cost and delay
If you are a passionate and enthusiastic Technologist, Electronic and Software Specialist, wishing to develop your expertise in such a domain, this job opportunity is made for you!
