Aircraft performance - Flight Test specialist (m/f)

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Flight Test Analyst (f/m) to join our Aircraft Test and Analytics department based in Toulouse, France. You will be part of a team developing aircraft performance evaluation capabilities. As part of the Flight and Integration Test Centre (IV), you will be involved in flight and simulated test data analysis aiming at demonstrating certification criteria and evaluating aircraft performance.

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:

• Prepare flight test campaigns: validate aircraft configuration, test instrumentation, and real-time telemetry visualization tools.
• Monitor flight tests in real time from the telemetry control center and assist the flight crew to ensure test validity and safety.
• Analyze test data and provide aircraft performance summaries for tested configurations to design departments (aerodynamics and performance).
• Optimize flight test data analysis tools and perform big data analytics to maximize added value.
• Draft and prepare official certification documentation.

Your boarding pass:

• Academic background in flight physics engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Initial professional experience or exposure to Flight Mechanics principles.
• Proficiency in Python or Matlab programming environments (Big Data project experience is a plus).
• Strong initiative, flexibility to adapt in a reactive operational environment, and team player attitude.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and French (daily use).

Take your career to a new level.

Company: Airbus Operations SAS

Employment Type: Permanent

Classe Emploi (France): Classe F12

Experience Level: Professional

Job Family: Testing

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