Landing Gear Avionics Test and Flight Test and Analysis Engineering Placement

Start date: 16 August 2027

Location: Filton, Bristol

Duration: 12.5 months

Applications close on 27 September 2026!

Benefits:

• Salary: £24,246
• 35 hours per week
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working options available depending on the role
• Half day Fridays!
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

About Us:

Are you someone who enjoys detailed problem solving, interrogating data, and rigorously assessing system performance? Are you someone who needs to see tangible results, excited by technical challenges, fault finding and collaborating to resolve technical problems with creative solutions and a digital mindset? Then this could be the job for you!

We are looking for someone who is currently studying at university and is interested in undergoing a placement year in industry. You will design and conduct tests on fuel and landing gear avionics test benches and support our flight test analysis activities. The Landing Gear Avionics and Flight Test Analysis team forms part of the transnational "Propulsion, Hydrogen & Hydro-Mech Systems" Sub-Domain. We are all part of the Flight and Integration Test Centre, where we test the integration of the complete aircraft. This is reflected in our ways of working, so you will be able to interact and build relationships with colleagues across Europe and across all aircraft systems. We are a product-focused community with a history of delivering innovation to our company. As a team, we conduct development testing of new aircraft systems through agile test methods, help to resolve in-service problems and provide design feedback for future aircraft.

What you will be doing:

• Support aircraft certification through integrated rig and flight testing and analysis;
• Establish and improve the maturity of aircraft systems through collaboration with other engineering teams;
• React to and help resolve in-service system issues;
• Aim for product safety beyond certification requirements;
• Implement synergies and alignment between rig and flight test.

Skills:

Every day will present a new challenge, you will test and improve your skills on a variety of activities including Lab testing, Flight test analysis, and data analytics. You could have the opportunity to get involved in:

• Lab Testing: Agreement on Lab Test Requirements, definition and validation of test benches; System level testing of landing gear functionality; In-service investigation by reproducing events on avionics benches; Preparing Lab Test Results Analysis.
• Flight Test Analysis: Agreement on Flight Test Requirements; Definition and validation of Flight Test Instrumentation; Support development and flight testing by following flights live through telemetry facilities; Preparing Flight Test Results Analysis and certification documentation.
• Data Analytics: Use of big data techniques to achieve cross-correlation between design, test rig, and flight behaviour; Algorithm development using flight test data for monitoring, design feedback, and support to in-service investigations, possibly in collaboration with other areas of engineering; Development of tools to support data analysis activities.

Requirements:

Our placements are open to Undergraduates only. Therefore it is mandatory for candidates to be an undergraduate for the whole duration of the placement. Please inform your graduation date on your application.

Required Skills:

• Studying towards a degree in Engineering or Science;
• Data analysis, report writing and presentation skills;
• Knowledge or experience of Programming and Programming languages (e.g. C, Python, TCL, Matlab, Google Apps Script);
• Excited by technical challenges and solving problems;
• Committed to deliver on time;
• Good interpersonal skills and capable of working as a team.

Desirable Skills:

• Awareness of aircraft systems;
• Knowledge or experience of software design and development;
• Interest in electronics;
• Knowledge of statistics and data science;
• Project management knowledge or interest;
• A good knowledge and practical experience of Google Workspace;
• Some French language skills.

Security Clearance:

You will be subject to a BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) check. You may also need to gain UK SC-level Security Clearance or Export Control, depending on the role.

Equal Opportunities:

Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. 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.