Software Design Assurance Engineer (F/M)

Job Description

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Software Design Assurance Engineer (f/m) to join our Hardware / Software Qualification department based in Toulouse, France. You will be part of a team developing the quality validation frameworks and compliance baselines for Airbus systems. As part of the Software Assurance Nominee team, you will be involved in supplier technical assessments and embedded system design reviews aimed at ensuring airborne software applications are safe, fully mature, and qualified for aircraft certification.

Benefits

• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan and voluntary employee stock purchase plan.
• Work / Life Balance: Extra days‑off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, staff council offering many social, cultural and sporting activities and other services.
• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services centre, concierge services, gym and car‑pooling application.
• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to over 10,000 e‑learning courses, certifications, expert career paths, accelerated development programmes, and national and international mobility.

Responsibilities

• Assess international Tier‑1 suppliers throughout the end‑to‑end embedded software development life cycle.
• Manage rigorous software design reviews to guarantee complete compliance with the DO‑178 aviation standard.
• Identify, mitigate, and report development risks and maturity bottlenecks discovered within product architectures.
• Coordinate airworthiness certification requirements directly interfacing with external aviation regulatory authorities.
• Drive internal quality process definitions and support implementation of standard development methodologies group‑wide.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of hands‑on professional experience in embedded software development or software systems engineering.
• Thorough technical command and operational understanding of the DO‑178 software assurance standard.
• Knowledge of standard structural benchmarks (DO‑330, DO‑331, DO‑332, DO‑200) or Airbus standard ABD0100 is a strong asset.
• Familiarity with Model‑Based Software Development concepts and toolsets (Simulink, SCADE) or Artificial Intelligence is highly valued.
• Full professional fluency in both English and French is mandatory.

Commitment & EEO

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.

Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to

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.