About Us

AKKA ranks as the European leader in engineering consulting and R&D services in the mobility sector. As an innovation accelerator for its clients, AKKA supports leading industry players in the automotive, telco&media, industrial, aerospace, rail and life-sciences sectors throughout the life cycle of their products with cutting edge digital technologies (AI, ADAS, IoT, Big Data, robotics, embedded computing, machine learning, etc.).

Founded 1984, AKKA has a strong entrepreneurial culture and is pursuing fast-paced growth and international development in line with its strategic plan CLEAR 2022. The Group continues to recruit at a steady pace to support its strong business growth. As of 31 December 2018, the Group had 21,019 employees (15,515 at the end of 2017), with 7,879 talents in France (+12.3%), 4,984 in Germany (+5.3%) and 8,156 internationally (+115.5%). Driven by its expertise in future mobility, digital and industry 4.0 technologies, the Group’s 2018 revenue rose by 12.8% to €1,505.3 million and has surpassed the €1.5B cap.

Job Description

With a view to strengthening our team, we are looking for a PAYLOAD & AIV Engineer.

For an important customer in the Space sector, we are looking for a Payload and AIV Engineer, motivated and dynamic, to be inserted in a context of avant-garde and challenger.

The resource, in particular, will perform the following activities:

• Engineering & Verification activity at PDHT (P/L Data Handling & Transmission) S/S level and at Platform level
• System engineering support during PDHT S/S AIT phase
• Digital & data handling (Data Storage & Handling Unit) equipment technical monitoring and verification.
• Definition/maintenance of Command & Control & Electrical

Profile

The ideal candidate has a master’s degree in aerospace engineering, physics or equivalent cultures and has gained at least three years of experience in these activities and has a good knowledge of English.

Skills requested

The following skills are also a prerequisite for this role:

• Knowledge of digital architecture for high rate application (P/L Data Handling/Mass Memory, High Rate Data Transmitter)
• Knowledge of on-board communication I/F and protocols
• Knowledge of digital electronics
• System engineering management.
• Knowledge of C, C++, Matlab, DOORS, MS Office products.
• Technical monitoring of Communication and Digital equipment.
• Space standards knowledge (ECSS).

Reference number 2019-9575

Tagged as: Matlab, digital electronics, ms office, DOORS, c/c++, p/l data handling/mass memory, high rate data transmitter, on-board communication i/f