Avionics & FCS V&V Engineer (all gender)

At Ascendance we are building tomorrow’s hybrid-electric aviation with ATEA, a unique Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft powered by STERNA, our in-house hybrid-electric propulsion system. We focus our efforts in designing an innovative, safe, silent, clean and affordable aircraft that will be able to blend into existing infrastructures and regulations to ease its deployment and maximise social acceptance.

If you are looking for a place where you will have a direct impact on very ambitious products, where you will work close to the hardware and where you can witness the result of your hard work quickly, board ATEA and come fly with us toward the future of aviation!

Your role : 🔎

Within the Overall System Design team, you will coordinate and support the System Engineering and Verification & Validation activities for the avionics and Flight Control System perimeters. Directly reporting to the system leaders, you will define the V&V strategies, participate in the management of specification documents, the production of test procedures, and contribute to the lab and flight test sessions. Finally, you will ensure that change management, traceability and configuration management fulfill certification authority requirements for a Permit to Fly. 

Your main responsibilities will be : 

• Mastering the current Avionics system and FCS architectures and functions

• Defining the V&V strategy for the Avionics and Flight Controls systems

• Managing the document cascade and the associated traceability, change management and configuration management processus

• Coordinating the teams to prepare the test campaigns

• Supporting actively ground and flight tests and the investigations related to technical events

• Supporting supplier management activities on V&V aspects

• Providing reports for the program milestone clearances and for the Permit to fly

Where do we stand? 

You will be entering the team during a crucial part of our development. Full scale testbenches are ongoing while full scale aircraft development is running at full speed with many issues to tackle regarding communications networks and associated developments.

The job has been made for you if you have : 🛠

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering Science, Computer Science or related field

• 4+ years of experience in systems engineering and V&V or related fields in aerospace systems

• Preferred to have practical hands-on experience in V&V, integration and test

• Experience with HMI, communication and Flight Control systems development

• Good knowledge and experience with DO-178C, DO-254 and DO-160 standards is a plus

• Ground & Flight testing experience is a plus

• An experience of CS-23 and CS-27 certification requirements is a plus

We are meant to work together if you : 💚

• Are sensitive to the climate change impacts

• Have ability to work autonomously with a drive for initiative related to the start-up environment and work in a small team

• Be solution and delivery-oriented 

• You are a real team player who wants to build a big success story with us

• You are passionate about new tech

What we offer  : 

• An international and dynamic team

• A remote policy to allow you flexibility

• Health insurance (supported to 50% by AFT)

• A dynamic workplace providing equal opportunities for disability, gender equity… Everyone is welcome at Ascendance!

Recruitment process :🕐 

• Application evaluations (CVs….)

• Talent Interview

• Technical Interview

• Meet others Ascenders 

• Reference check