Airbus Helicopters is seeking a V&V and Simulation Systems Engineer to join a cross-divisional project shaping the future of autonomous flight for UAS. The role involves leading the integration, verification, and validation strategy, developing simulation environments, and orchestrating SIL/HIL testing. The engineer will contribute to test campaign planning, support safety cases, and capitalize on technical data from simulations and flight tests. This position is based in Getafe and reports to the Research and Innovation Leader in Spain.

Responsibilities

V&V Strategy Leadership: Define and streamline the transition of the Integration, Verification & Validation (IV&V) strategy to ensure all technical requirements for autonomous flight are met.
Simulation Infrastructure Development: Lead the development of advanced simulation environments to host real-time models of virtual aircraft systems and autonomy functions.
SIL & HIL Orchestration: Oversee the end-to-end integration and testing using Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) environments for complex algorithm validation.
Test Campaign Planning: Contribute to the definition of comprehensive ground-based and flight test plans, ensuring evidence capture for safety-related parameters.
Safety Case Support: Partner with Safety and Airworthiness teams to ensure a robust system safety case through high-fidelity simulation and hazard mitigation testing.
Digital Twin & Model Capitalization: Analyze and capitalize on technical data from simulations and flight tests, ensuring a valuable handover of project learnings.
Agile Integration: Navigate the "fail-fast, learn-fast" prototyping environment by implementing efficient, automated test pipelines for rapid software-intensive aerospace systems.

Requirements

Education: Degree or Master’s in Aeronautical, Systems, or Control Engineering. Specialization in Modeling & Simulation or Systems Engineering is highly valued.
Professional Experience: At least 5 years of experience in systems engineering and V&V environments, specifically focused on autonomous flight or complex avionics.
Technical Mastery: Proven expertise in requirements management (e.g., DOORS), system integration, and V&V methodologies (SIL/HIL).
Simulation Skills: High proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink and Python for algorithm modeling, testing, and validation.
Aerospace Standards: Strong command of aerospace systems design and safety standards, including ARP-4754A/B, ARP-4761, and DO-178C/DO-254.
Regulatory Awareness: Familiarity with certification frameworks for UAS, including the SORA (Specific Operations Risk Assessment) framework.
Systems Thinking: A holistic, "big picture" mindset with the capacity to translate high-level operational objectives into concrete technical V&V roadmaps.
Language: Fluent English (C1 minimum) and Spanish.
Travel: Availability to travel sporadically at a national and European level in line with flight testing plans.