Internship - Avionics and Flight Control Tester (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 : 🔎

As Avionics and Flight control Tester you will be part of the System Engineering, VV, Configuration Management and Tests team. 

In the frame of the test campaign, you will have the opportunity to work on our real new products by running tests on them to ensure that the product meets the specifications! During this iterative process you will be part of integration tests, functional tests and operational tests according to the integration strategy.

You will contribute to :

• Refine of the test planning 

• Define test procedures to be run according to the test request and agree on the acceptance criteria

• Put the Avionics/FCS System Integration bench (SIB) into the right configuration  requested by the Design Office for a dedicated tests session

• Run the test procedures

• Record the results

• Document technical issue

• Write down the test report analysis

Where do we stand? 

Founded on Ascendance strong values, the whole team is involved in creating both innovative products to decarbonize aviation and an accurate company structure to support its fast development.

Full scale testbenches are ongoing while full scale aircraft development is running at full speed.

Sky's our limit, we are looking forward to the flight test campaign !

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

• You are an engineering school student or equivalent in the fields of Aeronautical or Aerospace,

• You have knowledge in Flight Control and/or Avionics systems,

• You have knowledge in software development,

• You are a team player and a proactive person,

• You are curious, enthusiastic and self driven.

We are meant to work together if you : 💚

• You are looking for a 5 to 6 months end of study internship starting in April 2024,

• You are passionate about new tech or eVTOL,

• You want to work in a deep tech startup that will change the way people travel,

• You want to face complex but thrilling challenges,

• You like to work in a dynamic environment.

Recruitment process :🕐 

• Application evaluations (CVs….),

• Technical Interview with Solene the team manager !

Non-discrimination and diversity are our priorities. AFT is open to hire personalities with their own differences.