SABCA

About us

SABCA is an important Belgian aerospace company integrated in a large international Group. SABCA and its subsidiary SABCA Limburg contribute actively to the success of numerous space and aircraft programs like the Ariane space launcher, the Airbus jetliners and Dassault business jets. The company's activities include design, fabrication, assembly and testing of large structural elements, powerful thrust vectoring systems, specific software en electromechanical components. Our Charleroi plant overhauls and upgrades military aircraft and helicopters, giving them a new life with state-of-the-art capabilities.

SABCA is constantly in line with the evolution of the aeronautical and space markets, investing in new technologies like high speed machining, automatic riveting, advanced composite manufacturing and modern mechatronics developments.

Each of these programs is a challenge to excellence in a particularly motivating technological environment. Our collaborators display a real sense of responsibilities and fully invest themselves in their work. Respect of quality requirements, team work and close links with our customers are the keys to our success.

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AVIONICS ENGINEER - Brussels

Context : We are looking for a sparkling Avionics engineer willing to get involved in the ongoing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) / Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) revolution. Our vision is made of a future with a sky full of reliable, performant and intelligent aerial vehicles carrying out a large spectrum of tasks with a positive societal impact. Our golden candidate would make it his own and be willing to play a significant role in the execution of such vision.

Challenge : Our UAV/UAS team is working on the development of different products based on legacy space and aviation technologies which will help increasing the reliability and safety of UAV/UAS operations as they become the norm. These products integrate many electronic sub-systems and components whose interoperability and performance must be ensured across a large spectrum of operating conditions.

Team integration : As Avionics engineer, you will report to the team coordinator and will integrate a strong & cohesive team full of people with a passion for technical challenges. They will expect you to take advantage of their expertise and that you share yours.

AVIONICS ENGINEER (M/F/X)

The job

Architectural design of all UAVs avionics system (digital, analog and power considerations) in line with functional needs or input requirements.
Design, specification and selection of avionics equipment according to the system architecture.
Electrical schematics capture and layout
Support of software & microelectronics experts in the integration and testing of processors & FPGAs System-on-Chip (SoC).

Your track record

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
Experience in safety-critical systems or avionics systems (navigation, radionavigation, communication, etc.).
Experience with mainstream and avionics standard digital communication bus (UART, I²C, SPI, CAN, Ethernet, ARINC xxx, MIL-STD-1553, etc.).
Experience with the main airborne systems standards and norms (DO254, DO160, DO178C, etc.).
Experience with electronics laboratory tools (soldering iron, power source, oscilloscope, signal analyser, etc.)
Basic experience in software development & scripting.
Fluency in English. Dutch or French is a plus.

OUR COMPANY

SABCA is a centennial Belgian company historically active on the civil aviation, space, and military markets. It recently decided to bring its unique expertise and technologies to the UAV/UAS market by developing innovative solutions focussing on safety & reliability and which is progressing rapidly in such direction.

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