Flight Control Engineer - Safety/V&V (all gender) old

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 : 🔎

Directly reporting to the Overall System Design leader, you will be responsible for ensuring the compliance of the Flight Control System (FCS) and the Avionics to safety requirements and for coordinating the V&V activities. 

Your main responsibilities will be : 

• Ensure the compliance of FCS & Avionics to safety objectives

• Manage and coordinate FCS & Avionics V&V activities

• Update the V&V Summary 

• Contribute to upgrades of FCS & Avionics architectures

• Keep  the FCS & Avionics Functional Hazard Analysis document up-to-date

• Conduct FCS & Avionics safety analyses: System Safety Analyses & Fault Tree Analyses, Common Mode Analysis

• Contribute to Approval of Flight conditions or Type Certification by writing some  documents (Ex: Certif Flight & Simulator Test Program, etc)

• Contributes to safety analyses of flight test events and in-service occurrences after Entry Into Service.

These activities will be performed both for Permit to Fly and for Certification.

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. You will be working in an interdisciplinary team to find global compromise while being given a high level view of the aircraft and propulsion system’s requirements. 

The job has been made for you if you : 🛠

• Have strong experience (5+ years) in development of complex systems, with a focus on:

  • V&V processes and methods (V cycle, Means Of validation and verification, Requirement-Based Engineering)

  • Safety processes such as ARP 4754A/ARP4761

• Have a good knowledge of overall aircraft design

• Knowledge  of CS-25 - or CS-23 and CS-27 - certification requirements

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