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Airbus • Nantes, France

PhD CIFRE_ Predictive Quality (m/f)

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

Job Description:

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a PhD student (m/f) specializing in predictive quality to join our OMTCI “Composite New Technologies” department based in Nantes, France.

You will be part of a team developing new technologies for composite materials,including their quality control . Within OMTCI, you will be involved in developing digital twins of composite part manufacturing processes (e.g., draping, autoclave curing, etc.). These twins will then be interconnected to build a comprehensive digital twin of the individual composite part. This developmen t aims to predict the final quality of the part using data acquired during its manufacturing.

Your working environment:

The sixth largest city in France, Nantes is located in the Loire-Atlantique department, south of Brittany, along the Loire estuary. This charming city in the Loire-Atlantique has successfully reinvented itself thanks to a strong artistic focus combined with a rich historical and cultural heritage. Its maritime past, its history, and its artistic vocation make Nantes a densely populated city with monuments, museums, and works of art scattered throughout the city and its surrounding areas.

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:

Identification of the parameters of composite part manufacturing processes (draping, curing, etc.) to be monitored

  • Simulation of composite part manufacturing processes
  • Implementation of tests to confirm the accuracy of the simulation
  • Enrichment of simulated data with real data (hybrid modeling)
  • Communication of results within Airbus and externally (conferences/publications)


Your boarding pass:

  • Minimum expected professional experience level (no maximum: prohibited by law): Master's degree (or equivalent)
  • Technical expertise related to the position: key skills/tools or regulations
  • Composite materials: manufacturing processes/associated inspections (draping, autoclave curing, demolding, ultrasonic non-destructive testing, etc.)
  • Modeling and simulation of composite processes
  • AI techniques
  • Programming: Python, etc.
  • Software use
  • Experimental techniques and testing equipment


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

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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 SAS

Employment Type:
Fixed term
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Classe Emploi (France): Classe F11

Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Digital

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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.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Annual bonus
Enhanced maternity leave
Open to compressed hours
Accrued annual leave
Sabbaticals
Enhanced sick pay
Adoption leave
Health insurance
Enhanced paternity leave
Family health insurance
Complimentary Medical Services
Referral bonus
Bike parking
Cycle to work scheme
On-site gym
Teambuilding days
In house training
Employee discounts

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