Flight Physics MDAO Developer (f/m)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 22, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 21, 2026. Airbus scores B on the Alion truth index.
Job Description:
Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Flight Physics MDAO Developer (f/m) to join our Flight Physics department based in Toulouse, France.
You will be part of a team developing next-generation multi-disciplinary capabilities needed to design the aircraft of tomorrow.
As part of the Flight Physics team, you will be involved in creating modern MDAO applications aiming at simplifying complex engineering workflows and speeding up the aircraft design process.
Your working environment:
Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor 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:
- Develop and demonstrate Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDAO) capabilities for Overall Aircraft Design perimeters.
- Execute end-to-end 3D aerodynamic simulations from shape parameterization to RANS CFD execution and post-processing.
- Collaborate in an agile cross-functional team across Europe, India, and Canada to solve complex design problems.
- Drive Systems Thinking and Design-First engineering principles to ensure optimal design constraint handling from day one.
- Automate complex high-fidelity simulations on HPC and AWS Cloud environments using parallel processing.
Your boarding pass:
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience in developing mono- or multidisciplinary optimization capabilities for Overall Aircraft Design.
- Hands-on mastery of 3D CFD aerodynamic simulations (RANS), shape parameterization, and surrogate modeling.
- Practical experience with MDAO frameworks (GEMSEO, OpenMDAO, or ModelCenter) and Python programming.
- Strong knowledge of Design of Experiments (DoE), gradient-based/gradient-free optimization, and OAD sizing/weight constraints.
- Familiarity with HPC job scheduling, cloud infrastructures (AWS), Git version control, and process automation.
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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.
Company:
Airbus Operations SASEmployment Type:
Permanent-------
Classe Emploi (France): Classe F12Experience Level:
ProfessionalJob Family:
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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.