Systems Test and Analysis Engineering Placement

Systems Test and Analysis Engineering Placement

Start date: 17 August 2026

Location: Filton, Bristol

Duration: 12.5 months

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Benefits:

Salary: £23,40035 hours per week // Flexible working hours // Hybrid working // Half day Fridays! // 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

About us:

Are you someone who enjoys detailed problem-solving, interrogating data, and rigorously assessing system performance? Do you get excited by technical challenges and collaborating on creative solutions with a digital mindset? If so, this could be the job for you.

We are looking for a university student interested in a placement year in industry. You will design and conduct tests on fuel and landing gear avionics test benches and support our flight test analysis activities.

Our Landing Gear Avionics and Flight Test Analysis team is part of the transnational "Hydrogen Propulsion & Hydro-Mech Systems" Sub-Domain. We are all part of the Flight and Integration Test Centre, where we test the integration of the complete aircraft. This is reflected in our ways of working, allowing you to interact and build relationships with colleagues across Europe and across all aircraft systems.

We are a product-focused community with a history of delivering innovation to our company. As a team, we conduct development testing of new aircraft systems through agile test methods, help to resolve in-service problems, and provide design feedback for future aircraft.

What you will be doing:

As an intern with us, you will contribute to the delivery of Landing Gear Avionics and Flight Test Analysis Test Team's mission:

• Support certification through integrated rig and flight testing and analysis;
• Establish and improve the maturity of AC systems through the collaboration with other engineering teams;
• React to and help resolve in-service system issues;
• Aim for product safety beyond certification requirements;
• Implement synergies and alignment between rig and flight test.

Every day will present a new challenge, you will test and improve your skills on a variety of activities including Lab Testing, Flight Test Analysis and Data Analytics.

Lab Testing:

• Agreement on Lab Test Requirements, definition and validation of test benches;
• System level testing of landing gear functionality;
• In-service investigation by reproducing events on avionics benches;
• Preparing Lab Test Results Analysis.

Flight Test Analysis:

• Agreement on Flight Test Requirements;
• Definition and validation of Flight Test Instrumentation;
• Support development and flight testing by following flights live through telemetry facilities;
• Preparing Flight Test Results Analysis and certification documentation.

Data Analytics:

• Use of big data techniques to achieve cross-correlation between design, test rig and flight behaviour;
• Algorithm development using flight test data for monitoring, design feedback and support to in-service investigations, possibly in collaboration with other areas of engineering;
• Development of tools to support data analysis activities.

Requirements:

Our placements are open to Undergraduates only. Therefore it is mandatory for candidates to be an undergraduate for the whole duration of the placement. Please inform your graduation date on your application.

*Your application should include a CV along with a Cover Letter outlining your motivation and suitability for the role.*

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Studying towards a degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent;
• Data analysis, report writing and presentation skills;
• Knowledge or experience of Programming languages (e.g. C, Python, TCL, Matlab, Google Apps Script);
• Excited by technical challenges and solving problems;
• Committed to deliver on time;
• Good interpersonal skills and capable of working as a team;
• Negotiation level of English both written and spoken;
• Nice to have awareness of aircraft systems and knowledge, experience of software design and development and interest in electronics;
• Knowledge of statistics, data science and project management knowledge would be beneficial.

SECURITY CLEARANCE:

You will be subject to a BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) check. You may also need to gain UK SC-level Security Clearance or Export Control, depending on the role.

Contact

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