Advanced Perception System Designer M/F

Job Description: Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for an Advanced Perception System Designer (M/F) to join our Robotics Development department based in Toulouse, France. We are a multicultural team that develops and supports robotics and automation solutions for all of Airbus's civil plants and Final Assembly Lines, acting as an internal supplier and center of competence. We design disruptive robotic solutions for a better, safer, and more competitive future for Airbus and its employees. Our fields of application include assembly, inspection, painting, and composites.

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 maintained 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 up‑skilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to over 10,000 e‑learning courses to develop employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

Your challenges

As a Advanced Perception System Designer (M/F), you will be the technical authority responsible for how our robots perceive, interpret, and interact with the physical world. You will guarantee the sensorimotor loop, ensuring that high‑fidelity data from sensors are transformed into actionable intelligence in real time. Your work lies at the critical intersection of hardware capabilities, algorithmic performance, and system reliability.

• Define and design robust sensor suites (cameras, profilometers) tailored to specific industrial environmental constraints.
• Implement and optimize high‑performance perception algorithms in C++/Python with a zero‑latency budget.
• Lead intrinsic and extrinsic calibration of complex sensor suites to ensure absolute spatial data integrity.
• Analyze computing requirements (CPU/GPU/Edge) and ensure seamless integration of the perception stack into the global robotic control architecture.
• Lead PFMEA processes to identify failure points and ensure the highest levels of safety and functional reliability.

Requirements

• Background in Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in robotics, including at least one full product life cycle (from design to launch).
• Proficiency in C++, Python, ROS2/DDS, and spatial mathematics.
• Agility, intellectual curiosity, team spirit, and multicultural openness.
• Fluent professional English (working within a multicultural team context).

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Company: Airbus Operations SASEmployment Type: PermanentClass Emploi (France): Class G13Experience Level: ProfessionalJob Family: Manufacturing Engineering

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