Data Engineer - Embedded AI (f/m)

About Us

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Data Engineer - Embedded AI (f/m) to join our Data Management & Artificial Intelligence team within our Cockpit & Platforms Design Office based in Toulouse, France.

You will be part of a team developing embedded AI functions for aircraft systems, specifically related to computer vision. As part of the Data-Driven Services & Aircraft Maintenance Community, you will be involved in building the industrial data foundations to support the training and validation of new machine learning functions (e.g. vision-based navigation or obstacle detection).

Your Working Environment

Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor activities!

How We Care For You

• Financial Rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
• Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
• Individual Development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10,000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your Challenges

• Manage data flows to support the training and validation of new machine learning functions (e.g., vision-based navigation or obstacle detection).
• Design and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures for machine learning functions, ensuring certification compliance (EASA).
• Support the Work Package Leader in subcontracting activities
• Align and communicate with internal stakeholders (R&T, System Engineering, IT)
• Foster Data Engineering best practices (DataOps, CI/CD) across the project and system engineering community.

Your Boarding Pass

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Data Engineering and Data Architecture in industrial environments (image processing / computer vision application pipelines highly desirable).
• Technical Expertise:
  • Architecture & Pipelines: Design and maintain scalable data lakes, optimized data models (Star/Snowflake) and ETL/ELT pipelines within cloud environments (AWS, BigQuery, Mongo), with a specific focus on image processing, tagging, and labeling.
  • Operational Excellence: Implement CI/CD automation, enforce data governance and quality standards, and continuously tune systems for performance and cost efficiency.
  • Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate MLOps practices and facilitate the deployment of AI models.
  • Technical Implementation: Strong proficiency in SQL and NoSQL. Experience with Spark/PySpark, Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, and MLOps is highly desirable.
• Languages: Negotiation level in English; knowledge of German or French would be a plus.

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

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