VIE - Geospatial innovation and product development engineer

A position "Innovation & Product development engineer" is now open in Airbus DS GEO SG SA (Soon to become Airbus GeoTech).

About Airbus in Barcelona

The position will be located in Airbus Barcelona facilities, located downtown. The team in Barcelona works closely with Airbus partner departments (Programmes, Business development, Sales, Operations, Engineering...) in France, Germany and has the responsibility to create and deliver new innovative Geospatial features in line with the market and future needs.

AIRBUS GeoTech, located in Barcelona, is the Airbus Defence and Space, Integrated Space Solutions subsidiary in Spain.

Airbus in Barcelona offers the best of the two worlds: the heritage and support of a world aerospace leader, combined with the fast-paced, innovative and agile environment of a small company, with the DNA of a start-up.

You will work with a small, but growing and passionate team of experts, system engineers, mapping operators, software developers, AI and data analysts that are transforming satellite and drone imagery, mapping, drone systems operations and an endless list of applications to come.

Be ready to enter a changing environment, and jump in a train in transformative motion, helping the executive team crafting new businesses and entering uncharted waters.

Airbus in Barcelona has a regional and global reach, with more than 200 international customers serviced to date. Our team is often on the move, travelling internationally, sometimes for extended periods of time.

REQUIREMENTS:
The VIE is a specific contract, under Business France's eligibility criteria.
VIE Main Requirements:
- European Union citizens (plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Monaco), graduates up to and including 28 years old. You cannot hold citizenship of the country of the mission you are applying for.
- Have fulfilled military obligations for their country, if any.
- For VIEs in Spain consult the
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Your role

Airbus Defense and Space operates one of the best in class satellite constellation. The images acquired by the satellites are processed by a processing suite developed in house. It produces a large set of products from the raw imagery to highly elaborated analytics.

Since several years, Airbus develops and offers satellite complementary Geospatial solutions, such as HAPS (High Altitude Platform Stations). HAPS are stratospheric, solar electric, UAS that provide persistence, accuracy and increased imagery and live video resolution.

Airbus GeoTech is the company in charge of ensuring the development, acceptance, test, manufcaturing and operations of the Airbus HAPS Earth Observation payload. In addition, Airbus GeoTech is an imagery and 2D/3D Mapping expert.

The candidate, an integral part of the Geospatial Solutions team, will collaborate with the Airbus Geospatial R&D team who will perform researches and developments on satellite images and 2D/3D mapping, to create new processing, analytics and services for OneAtlas, the Airbus Geospatial customer library, and to improve and automatize imagery mapping processes. He/She will work in a startup spirit mode, be passionate by satellite imagery, Earth Observation, Machine Learning, mathematics and computer science. He/She should be opened to new cloud technologies such as machine learning, analytics, big data... He/She should look for developing new innovative applications in close collaboration with the business. A focus will be made on developing new 3D technologies. As most of the image processing will be based on machine learning technics, he/she should be experienced in developing deep learning technologies for Earth Observation.

The candidate will also support the HAPS team. As part of this assignement the candidate could support the operations of the Earth Observation mission system in customer missions (international travel might be required), join some of the ongoing developments for the next generation payload systems, identify and define synergies with partners, develop end applications for customers and integrate the Earth Observation ground system to end customer systems and infrastructure.

Curious and passionate, he / she knows how to look for information and remain at the state of the art in a highly evolving technical landscape. Autonomous, he / she is able to take in charge researches themes, to discuss the objectives with the different actors, and to bring it to an end in coherence with the operational imperatives of the company.

Finally, with good communication skills including English, he / she will interact with support teams and internal or external clients / partners. A strong customer orientation with good listening skills and the search for innovative solutions is an important aspect of the job.

Required know how for the position

• An engineering degree in Electronics/Telecom/Aerospace.
• At least 1 year of experience in systems engineering and/or Geospatial fields
• Be familiar with Deep Learning environments (Python, Jupyter, OpenCV, GitLab, Keras, PyTorch) as well as with the Google Cloud Platform (Compute, AppEngine, Docker, CloudML).
• Knowledge in image processing and Earth Observation is a plus
• Remote sensing, mathematical modeling, statistics and development (DevOps) are desirable
• Excellent communication skills in order to interact with support teams and internal or external clients / partners.
• A strong customer orientation with good listening skills and the search for innovative solutions is an important aspect of the job.
• A negotiation level of English is required.
• Catalan, French or German are a plus
• Capable of dealing with unexpected situations
• Rigorous with methodology and able to follow procedures
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• A team player, eager to join a collaborative mindset
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and changing environment, handling multiple priorities
• Proactive thinking, fast learner, flexible
• International exposure
• Emotional intelligence, empathic, ability to be in someone else's shoes
• Open minded to diversity, inclusion and other cultures
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Ability to travel for several weeks, incl. outside Europe
• Commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the company's success, reputation & growth

Airbus Worldwide

Every year, thousands of individuals around the world join Airbus and begin a career in aircraft design, maintenance, logistics and customer services. By joining us, you'll be part of something bigger than yourself—a global team dedicated to shaping the future of aerospace. Airbus is a leading aerospace designer and manufacturer with over 35 years of experience in the industry, serving a broad range of customers worldwide from more than 30 worldwide locations.

At Airbus, we're industry leaders, pioneers and designers of next-generation technologies that are shaping the future of air travel. We push boundaries.

We champion science. And we'd like you to help us create a safer, better-connected world.

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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