Flight Ops Engineer - TrajOpt

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Role: Flight Ops Engineer - TrajOpt

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Description of the job

You want to make Airbus a more connected, safer and smarter place? Then join the Information Management (IM) department !

We are a core function where sustainable IT is starting to transform our company, where our customers can benefit from our innovative products and services such as Skywise, where we are key to implement the digitalisation in our company through programs like DDMS and where we connect thousand of worldwide end users everyday, and all that in a protected and safe environment.

IM is everywhere in the business, from the design of an aircraft until its delivery with linked services to our customers and even more.

People development, engagement & wellbeing are at the heart of our thinking. Diversity is a must and our most precious treasure. We are the life-blood of any organization or business and play a vital role each day in terms of technology and innovation in Airbus.

Airline Sciences with the Airbus IM organization are building an airline digital twin, based on the latest cloud technology, unifying views of the customer operations, aircraft design, marketing, strategy and services. This large-scale twin will enable us to assess realistic technical tradeoffs to make our industry even more sustainable.

The Airline Sciences objective is to act as an advisor to bring airline operational representativity in all Airbus activities. By combining aircraft models, trajectory simulations and optimization, operational research, data analytics and artificial intelligence, the Airline Sciences team is able to deliver realistic aircraft performance, airline network and maintenance schedules and P&L evaluation of a virtual Airline. By analyzing historical data, the Airline Sciences team can precisely match real world conditions and provide an accurate representation of a digital airline.

A vacancy for an Flight Ops Engineer in the Airline Sciences-Trajectory Optimization team has arisen within Airbus India in Bangalore. The Airline Sciences teams are composed of Flight Physics Engineers, Data Scientists, Software developers, system architects and business analysts from all around the world.

Tasks & accountabilities

The main activities of the Airline Sciences-Trajectory Optimization team members are the following:

• Develop and adapt engineering aircraft performance models and trajectory optimization algorithms within Airline Sciences application

• Contribute to the innovation in the field of flight planning and trajectory optimization through research and prototyping during specific innovation tasks

• Interaction with customers / written reports of achievement / presentation

• Contribute to the definition and way forward for the trajectory optimization team / Airline Science strategy for the customer acceptance of the Airline Digital Twin (ADT)

• Identifying, reviewing and proposing innovative changes and courses of action to management in order to develop the team’s field of expertise and effectiveness

• Ensuring the support for the ADT tool

• Training and knowledge transfer

This role will involve some travel for business in Europe and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.

Required skills

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

The skills you bring

• Engineering Bachelor / Master degree or equivalent

• 5-7 years of relevant work experience in similar scope to the responsibilities mentioned above

• Overall flight physics knowledge

• Basic understanding of Time-dependent numerical simulation methods

• Basic knowledge of airline operations and flight planning

• Back-end development experience (3&43; years) in JAVA (>8) or Python or .NET

• Familiar with Agile development environments. Ability to create prototypes; develop, test, refine and deploy in production environments.

• You are a good team player, who likes working in a collaborative environment

• You have excellent communication, presentation and analytical skills

Preference will be given to candidates with

• This position requires “negotiation level” language proficiency in English. Ability to influence outcomes

• Ability to work closely and effectively with people at all levels in the company including Design Office, Maintenance Services, Flight Operations, Strategy & Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing, Airworthiness Authorities, Air Navigation Service Providers, Suppliers, external customers and local University research associates

• Understanding of decision making algorithms for flight planning would be a plus

• Statistics, Data analytics and machine learning knowledge is a plus

• AWS knowledge is a plus

• Graph search / Operation research / Optimization knowledge is a plus

Success Metrics:

Success will be measured in a variety of areas, including but not limited to

• Deliver business value as defined by product owner and accountable for team’s delivery value as well

• Give a transparent information during the AGILE rituals (Remaining to do and issues encountered) and request help for support

• Consistently ensure the on-time delivery and quality (first-time-right) of the sprints

• Bring innovative cost effective solutions

• Achieve customer satisfaction

• Ability to handle a subject from demand management, to development and support

• Ability to challenge the needs of the clients and provide appropriate solutions

The role will have the following key outputs:

• Strong link with the Airbus Information Management organization

• Good quality code and participation in improvement of existing code

• Proactive in providing guidance & inputs for the product’s roadmap

• Bring airplane navigation simulations in ADT closer to real world operations.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

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