Superconducting electric motor R&T engineer (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.

Tasks & accountabilities

Your main tasks and responsabilities will include:

• Selecting good topology and good partners for prototyping a superconducting motor
• Performing electromagnetic analysis and design
• Designing and testing electric, electromagnetic and superconducting technologies
• Participating to the design of cryogenic and mechanic parts of electric machine
• Prototyping the superconducting motor and integrate it in a cryogenic loop
• Integrating and testing it in the cryo/superconducting powertrain
• Evaluating performances and potential for propulsive application
• Driving industrial and academic partners.
• Your boarding pass

Profile

• PhD in electrical engineering or equivalent
• Experience in superconducting electrical motors
• Experience in multidisciplinary technical activities (electrical, mechanical, thermal) from technology, design to prototyping and laboratory testing for aeronautic applications)
• Experience in electrical motors for automotive, railway and/or aerospace
• Demonstrated track record of end-to-end project execution
• Well-built professional network within their domain of expertise, including academics, industrial players, consultants, entrepreneurs
• Demonstrated ability to reason rigorously about technology or business models at varying levels of abstraction.