Internship / Java Studies & Development - Software Improvement (m/f), Toulouse

Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2015, it generated revenues of €64.5 billion and employed a workforce of around 136,600. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as Europe’s number one space enterprise and the world’s second largest space business. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civiland military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.

Tasks & accountabilities

Your main tasks will include:

• Studying the problem,
• Analysing the existing application and its performance,
• Recommending solutions,
• Implementing a set of selected solutions.

In detail, you will:

• Discovering MDA, the Eclipse RCP world and its technologies, notably EMF (the Eclipse Modelling Framework),
• Learning how to use a profiler to detect bottlenecks,
• Creating performance charts and hugging data test cases,
• Digging into the existing application code to understand the performance issues, re-writing parts of code if needed to improve performance,
• Studying data fragmentation and their availability among the different Airbus D&S sites (in Germany, France, and England),
• Implementing a way to provide High Availability to the application's data in order to prevent a work break in case of a major issue on the servers.

Required skills

• You are in the first or second year of a Master's Degree or in the 4th or 5th year of an Engineering School specialising in Information Technology or equivalent.
• You ideally have initial experience and you maintain a strong knowledge in object-oriented programming, Java and Algorithms.
• You are familiar with the Unix/Linux world. Some knowledge of Eclipse RCP and EMF would be appreciated.
• You are recognised for your autonomous way of working and your ability to capture technical contexts in a comprehensive and rapid manner.
• You are a good team player and have excellent interpersonal skills.
• English: advanced level. Knowledge of French would be a plus.