Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer

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The mission of Flight Tests Instrumentation Architecture & Equipment is to provide Flight Test Means to gather data from the test object (on A/C) for further evaluation.

Our range of capabilities covers: special systems (on board installations), quick response (multidisciplinary knowledge and quick troubleshooting), technologies (sensors -including quality & metrology; data acquisition & distribution, recording, video, telemetry, time synchronization…) and also manufacturing capability (onboard racks manufacturing, equipment manufacturing and qualification, etc)

You will be part of a team responsible for the full life cycle of a Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) installation for Airbus Derivatives (MRTT) Program. From conception to deployment, going through equipment and system integration.

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

- Definition and Design of Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) installations onboard Flight Test Aircrafts for MRTT program. Compile and analyse the requirements and the necessary information to: specify, design, build and provide a FTI system, including all the equipment -HW, SW, digital systems, etc-.

- Prepare (define, perform and document) FTI Documentation to be provided to A/C installation Design Offices (and also and system integration tests on FTI Laboratory Facilities) bringing technical orientation and solutions in accordance with internal manuals and procedures on quality, cost and time.

- Coordinate and manage FTI in general with main stakeholders and all the associated activities under our scope (budget, export control, stock, spares, V&V activities). This also includes the updates during the development phase and also an appropriate level of support of the anomalies in service (investigation and solving).

- Make or Buy processes. New instrumentation technologies for future project’s needs.

Required skills

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

• Educated to degree level in Engineering in the area of electronics/aeronautics and/or telecommunications.
• Previous experiences in Testing Activities.
• Data acquisition system expertise for acquiring analog, digital and bus signals. Configuration of network devices: routers and switches.
• Experience in Telemetry equipment (transmitters, antennas, amplifiers, cabling and elements calibration, operation) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems.
• Radio Frequency chain (transmitters, cabling and elements calibration and operation)
• WAN/LAN protocols stack (TCP/UDP, IP, PTP, SNMP, Ethernet, ...)
• Network Simulation & Analysis tools (Wireshark -dissectors-, IPerf, ...)
• Programming Skills in LUA, LAbView or Python is also valuable.
• Knowledge of the following documentation and tools are valuable: A/C installation documentation, NRD, A400M FTI Block Diagrams, Drawing Information Sheets and FTI Data Sheets, Sabre, Sabre Criev, STILo, N-Show, RODAS, EPD, TLB, FTI databases, DOORS..
• High ability to understand/find-out the behaviour of electronic devices and digital protocols.
• Team spirit to work as part of a multidisciplinary team (sometimes under pressure).
• Proactivity in problems finding and solutions proposals.
• Methodical, organized and assertive profile is expected.
• English Advanced Level required.

The candidate will work in a multinational and multicultural team requiring negotiation capabilities and very good communication skills.

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.

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.

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