Human Factors Specialist (m/f), Toulouse

Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus champions innovative technologies and offers some of the world’s most fuel efficient and quiet aircraft. Airbus has sold over 13.800 aircraft to more than 360 customers worldwide. Airbus has achieved more than 8,000 deliveries since the first Airbus aircraft entered into service. Headquartered in Toulouse, France.

Your challenges

• Bring Human Factors expertise on critical & complex cockpit layouts, functions, technologies and operations by working in a multidisciplinary team composed of pilots, designers, training centers representatives, safety specialists, and various experts from the design office.
• Analyze the needs and factors influencing human performance, develop recommendations to be taken into account in the design of flying fleets or future products and lead the Human Factors evaluations
• Carry out projects with partners and universities in order to develop scientific knowledge with the aim of continuously improving aviation safety.
• Represent Airbus in international working groups dealing with regulation evolution or Safety Enhancement initiatives.

Your boarding pass

• Master Degree or Phd in applied UX Human Factors field, with specific knowledge of human behavior (perception, understanding, problem solving ) & characteristics (impact of fatigue, stress, workload, Situation Awareness, experience, competence, motivation, personality ...) and HF methods applied to complex system design
• Knowledge of aircraft systems and flight operations
• Knowledge of HF related certification regulations applied to large commercial aircraft
• Large experience in aeronautical fields such as airline, aircraft manufacturer or aeronautical authorities and/or pilot license are a significant plus.
• Ability to speak up, justify and defend a position in challenging situations.
• Negotiation level of English.