Advanced System Designer Video and AI Avionic Computer

Advanced System Designer for Video and Artificial Intelligence Avionic Computer

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is seeking an Advanced System Designer for Video and Artificial Intelligence Avionic Computer (m/f) to join their Avionics Platform & Cockpit Systems Team in Toulouse, France. This role is within the dynamic Cockpit & Platforms Avionics Domain, which focuses on connectivity, data, and autonomy technologies to enhance aircraft integration, operational efficiency, and services through powerful shared resources.

Team and Technology Focus

You will be part of a Systems Engineering team of 18 people dedicated to Avionics Platforms and Shared Resources (ATA-42). The core technologies in this area include Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA), core processing and data-concentration computers (CPIOM, CRDC), and data and video networks (ADCN/AFDX). These systems are critical for safety-critical functions on existing aircraft (A350, A400M, A380) and form the foundation for future Airbus programs.

Key Responsibilities

Your primary responsibility will be to drive the technical design and definition of a new IMA avionic computer specifically for Video and Artificial Intelligence. This is a critical hardware/software component for Airbus's next-generation system architecture, compliant with DAL-C standards.

Your Working Environment

Toulouse, France, is a vibrant city known as the global capital of aeronautics and a European hub for space research. Its strategic location between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, near the Pyrenees mountains, offers abundant opportunities for outdoor activities.

What We Offer

• Financial Rewards: Attractive salary, success and profit-sharing schemes, employee savings plan, and voluntary employee stock purchase plan.
• Work/Life Balance: Additional days off for special occasions, holiday transfer options, and a Staff Council providing social, cultural, and sports activities.
• Wellbeing & Health: Complementary health insurance (disability, invalidity, death), with potential site-specific benefits like health services, concierge, gym, and carpooling apps.
• Individual Development: Extensive upskilling opportunities with unlimited access to over 10,000 e-learning courses, certifications, expert career paths, accelerated development programs, and national/international mobility.

Airbus supports flexible working arrangements to foster innovative thinking and easier collaboration.

Your Challenges:

System Design and Technical Definition:

• Translate high-level functional needs into technical characteristics for the Video and AI computer, considering real-time constraints and aeronautical standards (DAL-C) for graphical processors.
• Collaborate with the Airbus Avionics Computer Center of Competence (CoC) to explore market technologies and products.
• Develop clear and unambiguous technical specifications.
• Conduct trade-off studies for optimal compromises in technology selection, module integration, and partitioning strategies.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks.

Architecture and Integration:

• Define the architecture for Video and AI avionic computers within the next-generation system architecture.
• Collaborate with the IMA module integration team for preliminary resource allocation of hosted software applications.
• Identify integration constraints and sizing needs, including integration with a new video network.

V&V and Certification:

• Initiate Validation & Verification (V&V) and Certification strategies, adhering strictly to certified processes and methodologies (DAL-C).

Continuous Improvement and Innovation:

• Incorporate lessons learned from current programs to enhance future IMA-dependent aircraft platforms.

Your Profile:

• Graduate degree in Engineering.
• Experience in Avionics Computer development and architecture (Hardware/Software).
• Experience with GPUs for video processing and heavy computations.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken).
• Proven ability for proactive, autonomous work with strong organizational and execution skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a collaborative mindset.
• Experience in Neural Network and Artificial Intelligence is a plus.
• Prior experience in end-to-end aircraft systems development is a plus.
• Familiarity with Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) principles is a plus.

Airbus supports personal growth with customized development solutions and encourages applications even if you don't meet every single requirement.

Key Skills/competency

• System Design
• Video Processing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Avionics Computer
• Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA)
• GPU Computing
• Hardware Software Architecture
• Real-time Systems
• DAL-C Certification
• Technical Specifications