Airline-Style Simulator Test Pilot

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Simulator Test Pilot (m/f) to join the Flight & Integration Test Centre in Toulouse, France.

You will be part of a team leading test campaigns on integration simulators. As part of the Multi‑System & Operational Testing group in the Tests & Analytics department, you will get close to the product, interface with numerous stakeholders in a transnational environment, while acquiring a global view of the aircraft operations, acting as 1st customer.

As a simulator test pilot, you will bring your expertise to carry out simulator tests in an operational manner and help assess with test engineers the global aircraft behaviour, giving operational feedback during simulator tests (multi‑system test, airline‑like campaigns, preparation sessions before flight‑test pilot assessment, etc.).

You will work in strong cooperation with System Test Engineers, Design Offices, Flight Test Engineers, Flight Test pilots, and the Flight Operations & Training community in Customer Services to close the loop with in‑service operations.

Your challenges:

• Ensure tests are performed while the simulator is flown as an Airline pilot would do.
• Promote airline‑like approach on simulator exposing Airbus Standard Operating Procedures as much as possible on simulator.
• Ensure operational documentation is up to date, used and exposed on simulator.
• Contribute to aircraft maturity by giving feedback on operational point of view during tests.
• Contribute to new systems or function design by attending ground test campaigns.

Your boarding pass:

• Pilot licence with CPL, IRME, MCC qualifications.
• An aircraft Type Qualification (Type Rating), preferably Airbus.
• Previous experience in airline operations.
• A good knowledge/understanding of airline operations.
• A Diploma in Aeronautics or IT.
• A systems knowledge and testing mindset.
• Good communication skills with ability to connect people across functions, result‑oriented.
• Continuous challenging and lean approach.
• Open‑mind, autonomous, technically curious and hands‑on, with good synthesis skills.
• Advanced level of English and an intermediate level of French (mandatory).

This position requires being eligible to security, Export Control and Military clearances by the recognized authorities.

Selected candidates will be expected to have an awareness of potential compliance risks and to act with integrity.

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