Embedded Software Architect (m/f)

Description de l'offre

Airbus Operations SAS

Description of the job

A permanent job opportunity has arisen for an Embedded Software Architect (m/f) to be based on Toulouse site in France. The
successful applicant will join the 'Avionics Software' department, within 'Avionics and Simulation products' engineering domain.

Avionics and Simulation organization is an in-house avionics equipment and simulators supplier. Engineers in this domain are responsible for the design, the development, the production and the support of critical embedded products (e.g. Flight Controls,
Flight Warning, Communication, Maintenance equipment) for all Airbus aircrafts.

This organization is also Chamber of Reference on Software and Electronics thanks to highly skilled and experienced teams. The scope of activities also extends to other Airbus
divisions and partners in some cases.

As successful candidate, you will be responsible for defining and supporting avionics real-time software architectures able to
fulfil the required needs and the airworthiness rules, and by ensuring the trade-offs on technical, business and industrial
objectives. You will partner with all stakeholders, leaders and experts, to define the product line(s) strategy, and the associated
technology, methods & tools road-maps.

Tasks & accountabilities

You will be in charge of leading the followings activities:
¤Ensure a technical interface role between major customers (manufacturer, aircraft system, product design, support…) and
various competences centers (hardware, software, methods & quality) to design a certifiable software product compliant with the
required needs and the airworthiness rules.
¤Contribute to the product line strategy (common solution for various aircraft programs and systems), and the associated
technologies, methods & tools road-maps.
¤Understand and value the customer needs, take into account the product line solutions, turn them into requirements for the
implementation of software architectures.
¤Define software architectures by managing the right trade-off on technical, business and industrial criteria.
¤Define the development, verification and certification strategies for the proposed architecture with associated methods and
tools (which could integrate automatic code generation).
¤Develop, maintain and support embedded software products or components, to understand the activity constraints and
environment, to improve the ways of working and to bring innovative technologies.
¤Improve the component-based approach and product line engineering.
¤Define and deploy a framework (methods and tools) to model the architectures.
¤Provide support around software architecture topics to the pre-study project's teams, for feasibility analysis, financial
estimations, risk & opportunities assessment.
¤Participate to the continuous improvement of the Department performance.

You will also have the opportunity to participate to some software Chamber of Reference activities, such as assessments of
Airbus equipment suppliers.

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.

Required skills

You will be able to demonstrate your experience on the following competences:
¤Architecture technics (analysis, decomposition, definition and validation) of complex avionics software systems
¤Product Line Engineering & Component-based approach
¤Embedded Critical Real-Time Software development and certification (DO178-C, up to DAL A)
¤Low layers software and Operating systems
¤Safety, Data security
¤Software engineering & Software standards
¤High power computing & multicore architecture
¤New technologies and new ways of working in software development
¤Agile development process is a plus
¤Open mind-set, good communication skills and good team working
¤You are recognized for being a team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
¤An advanced level of English is required