AOCS GNC Studies Engineer (m/f) à Toulouse

Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2017, it generated revenues of € 67 billion and employed a workforce of around 130,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as Europe’s number one space enterprise and the world’s second largest space business. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.

Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place. Taking pride in our work, we draw on each other's expertise and experience to achieve excellence. Our diversity and teamwork culture propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

A vacancy for an AOCS & GNC Study Engineer has arisen within Airbus Defence & Space in Toulouse.

You will join the AOC & GNC & Flight Dynamics department (TESOA) in the Space Systems Engineering organisation.

The study engineer is in charge of AOCS & GNC studies for satellite and space projects in development phase. The projects cover all applicative domains: Earth Observation (e.g. Pleiades-Néo, CSO, export systems), Science missions (e.g. Juice, Bepicolombo), or telecommunication satellites (e.g. SES Astra, Arabsat, EurostarNeo, OneWeb …).

This position will require a security clearance or will require being eligible for clearance by the recognized authorities.

Your main tasks and responsibilities will be to conduct AOC & GNC activities for programs in development phase:

• Design of AOCS / GNC estimation and control laws, and all associated on-board algorithms: requirements engineering for AOCS functional chain (mission, environment, spacecraft dynamics characteristics, avionic equipments performances), analysis and trade-offs of control solutions, preliminary performances on functional simulators.
• Definition and specification of representative modelling of sensors and actuators, covering functional, performances and dynamics aspects, to be used within the Functional Validation Bench (simulator running AOCS flight software in closed-loop).
• Specification of on-board algorithms towards software team, functional validation of the FVB simulator.
• Tuning of flight software functional parameters, establishment of detailed functional budgets (pointing, stability, consumption, …).
• Validation of functional performances, by intensive validation campaigns on FVB simulator. Definition and support to the execution of reference validation cases used during later development stages, avionics test bench and AIT (Assembly, Integration, Test).
• Participation to Launch and Early Operation phases as AOCS specialist, functional. expertise support for in-orbit maintenance operations throughout satellites lifetime.

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.

You will have the following skills and experience:

• Educated to engineering degree level (or equivalent) with a specialisation in Space and/or Automatic Control.
• Highly skilled in Automatic Control, AOC or GNC, Signal Filtering, modelling and simulation.
• Knowledge of Matlab Simulink, real time systems.
• A first experience in the domain of Guidance, Navigation and Control systems.
• Team spirit, sense of commitment, well organised
• Capacity to tackle implementation details in a rigorous and sustained fashion.
• Level of negotiation in English and French.