#ET16 Tiger Certification/ Qualification engineer - ED-79 / ARP 4754 System Development Assurance specialist (H/F)

AIRBUS

Marseille

**Job Description:** A vacancy for a Certification Qualification Engineer Tiger Programs has arisen within Airbus Helicopters for System Development Assurance activities (ED-79 / ARP 4754) dedicated to Tiger MKIII within the Airworthiness department. You will join the Airworthiness Office of Airbus Helicopters in Marignane and become part of the Chief Airworthiness Engineer's (CAE) Team for Tiger/NH90 Program to support the safety of our products by managing the Certification, Qualification and initial Airworthiness activities for your program this includes new helicopter type certification, changes to existing helicopter type certificates and flight clearances. **Your working environment:** Major economic hub with Marseille-Provence Airport, Marignane is a dynamic city in the southeast of France. It is located near the cities of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, which host a rich cultural and tourist offer. Close to the beaches of the Côte Bleue, it offers many options for water sports 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:** Each Project involves various contributors (Chief Engineering, designers, internal and external specialists, customer support, prototype shop, Final Assembly Line, suppliers, ...). As System Development Assurance specialist within the Airworthiness department, you will be responsible for leading the system development assurance activities for Tiger MKIII Certification and Qualification, necessary to meet the Tiger MKIII development and deliveries milestones. You will deal with the Airworthiness Authority specialist, you will negotiate the ED-79 / ARP 4754 application, and cascade it internally and externally towards suppliers, under the leadership of the Tiger MKIII Avionics focal point within the airworthiness department. You will review and comment if necessary the different plans (from Airbus Helicopters and from suppliers) for the different integrated processes (System Engineering plan, Configuration Management Plan, Process Assurance Plan, Validation Plan, Verification Plan, ...) to ensure these plans are practicable and usable and fully covers the objectives of the ED-79 / ARP 4754. You will also provide guidance to the different System Design Responsibles (SDR), Showing of Compliance Engineers (SCE) and Certification Verification Engineers (CVE) involved in the associated system development to ensure a correct understanding and application of the plans approved by the Airworthiness Authorities. System reviews with suppliers and authorities will have to be performed in order to ensure proper development activities application. In parallel, you will develop yourself to become a Certification Qualification Engineer (CQE). As CQE, you will be the focal point for the Airworthiness Authorities with whom you will negotiate the certification basis as well as the certification strategy and means of compliance (lab/ground/flight testing, Safety analysis...) and authority involvement (document acceptance, test witnessing, in-house reviews...). You will also be responsible to ensure demonstration of compliance to the applicable airworthiness requirements, to ensure their in-service safety. This results in a challenging transverse position, including negotiation internally but also with Aviation Authorities world-wide, with great responsibilities, and a good overview on our products, on our systems and on our organization. This position will require a security clearance or will require being eligible for clearance by the recognized authorities. Task & accountabilities : Your mission is to achieve the certification and qualification of the Tiger MKIII Helicopter, in particular the Avionics system, in an international environment within the transnational team of the Chief Airworthiness Engineers, and in front of a several National Customer/authorities representatives. To achieve this you have to:

Apply ED-79 / ARP 4754 strategy defined on Tiger MKIII
Ensure proper adherence to ED-79 / ARP 4754
Perform internal audit for system development assurance application (system reviews)
Perform external audit for system development assurance application (system reviews)

You will also have to:

Identify/define the applicable Certification / Qualification basis
Contribute to the obtainment of permit to fly in case of cooperation projects
Define the Certification/qualification Logics for your system, elaborate and harmonize (internally / externally) the certification & qualification plans, including the identification of the Means of Compliance and associated demonstrations of compliance.
Coordinate the creation and delivery of those compliance demonstrations in accordance with the general milestones provided by the Project team
Validate those demonstrations of compliance and harmonize them with Authorities
Produce the certification / qualification synthesis documents and harmonize them with authorities.

In Parallel, the position may offer the opportunity to:

Coordinate a transversal team for a given certification/qualification project
Be a key player for the harmonization of the certification processes, for continuous improvement and DOA implementation on Tiger.
Be a point of contact, internally, and in front of our customers/Authorities, for Governmental Avionics system development, when related to Certification and qualification strategy, certification regulations or applicable standards.
Promote our Roles & Responsibilities and associated processes within Airbus Helicopter and in front of our Authorities.
Promote our Roles & Responsibilities and associated processes within Airbus Helicopter and in front of our Authorities.
Become authorized signatory and responsible within the development assurance system including the whole process of certification and qualification

**Your profile:** You will have the following skills and experience:

Educated to a 5 years' degree level (or equivalent) in Engineering or a related discipline.
At least 5 years of overall experience.
Good knowledge of the ED-79A / ARP 4754-A
Solid and successful experience in a concrete application (as auditor or as auditee) of system development assurance for certification of an aircraft (systems reviews 1 to 4)
Experience in Avionics system certification would be a plus
Experience or knowledge in ED-12()/DO-178(), ED-80/DO-254 standards would be a plus
Experience in project management would be a plus
Good level of communication
Comfortable in negotiation situations
Language Skills: Advanced level of English and French

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Publié le 2026-01-20