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Working at Airbus

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Join Airbus Helicopters as a Database Engineer in Marignane, France for a permanent, full-time role. You will design system database architectures, manage system interfaces, and ensure compliance with safety-critical civil certification standards while working in a collaborative and flexible environment.

Requirements

  • Educated to 5 years' degree level (or equivalent) in computer science, electronics, or a related discipline.
  • Strong experience in database management and software development.
  • Experience with Python or other scripting languages.
  • Familiarity with ED-12/DO-178, DO-330, or DO-220 certification processes (IEC 61508 or ISO 26262 are also interesting).
  • Experience with configuration management processes and tools (e.g., svn, git, clearcase).
  • Fluent in French and English.
  • Soft skills: strong analysis skills, capacity of abstraction, willingness to learn, and clear communication.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Database Management: Design system database architectures and perform database updates to ease integrations and integrate new product features.
  • Programming & Scripting: Utilize Python or other scripting languages to support interface management and system updates.
  • Process Compliance: Apply standards such as ED-12/DO-178 to demonstrate compliance with applicable civil regulations.
  • Configuration Management: Manage tool processes using systems like git, svn, or clearcase to track changes and continuous integration.
  • Potential transition routes: People from software engineering or systems engineering roles may bring database management and programming skills, alongside meeting strong analytical and bilingual requirements.

Job description

Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters’ Software Products department is responsible for the development and integration of embedded software, implementing safety critical functionalities.

The department is involved in the development of in house solutions and is supporting the development of products developed by other internal entities or external suppliers, ensuring that the development processes follow the applicable guidelines (eg ED-12/DO-178) for civil certification.

In order to ensure this mission, we are looking for a database engineer, supporting in particular the management of system interfaces

Your working environment:

Major economic hub with Marseille-Provence Airport, Marignane is a dynamic city in the southeast of France. It is located near the cities of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, which host a rich cultural and tourist offer. Close to the beaches of the Côte Bleue, it offers many options for water sports 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:

You will join a team working transversely on all helicopters developing interfaces on new or exiting systems for development.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

  • Design our system database arhcitecture to ease integrations on our fleet, ensuring it allows to demonstrate compliance with applicable regurlations
  • Organize the update, with system architects, of system interfaces to integrate new features in our products
  • Organize the backlog of activities performed by partners
  • Participate in the process improvement, in particular to facilitate continuous integration of embedded systems
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Airbus

Embedded Software: Database engineer (m/f)

Marignane
Attractive salary and financial rewards
  • Perform the update asscoated with some features in the database
  • Your profile:

    The ideal candidate has the following experience and skills:

    • Educated to 5 years’ degree level (or equivalent) in computer science, electronics or related discipline.
    • ability to manage software developments/database
    • Strong experience on database management
    • Experience with python or other scripting languages
    • Experience with ED-12/DO-178, DO-330 or D0-220 certification process. Other industries standards (e.g.: IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ..) may also be interresting
    • Experience with configuration management processes and tools (e.g. svn, git, clearcase...)
    • Fluent in French and English
    • Soft skills : Analysis skills (being able to extract main data in system/equipment documents), Capacity of abstraction, willingness to learn in order to be autonomous, Clear communication in a context of divergent/different opinions

    You are also an curious team player willing to challenge the status quo, and to develop and push innovative solution.

    Other experience in related domains will also be appreciated.

    This includes:

    • Familiarity with model based development (e.g. Scade, Simulink)
    • Familiarity with continuous integration processes and tools (e.g: Jenkins)
    • Experience in simulation / modelisation
    • Experience working with agile methods (e.g. scrum)

    Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customized development solutions.

    Take your career to a new level and apply online now!

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    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.

    Company:
    Airbus Helicopters SAS

    Employment Type:
    Permanent
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    Classe Emploi (France): Classe G13

    Experience Level:
    Professional

    Job Family:
    Software Engineering

    By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
    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 emsom@airbus.com .

    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.

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