Electrical Design Engineering Placement (12.5 months)

Job Description:

Start date: 17 August 2026

Location: Filton, Bristol

Duration : 12.5 months

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Benefits:

Salary: £23,400

35 hours per week Flexible working hours Half day Fridays! 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

About us:

As an intern, you will join the Laboratory Test Means Electrical/Electronic Design team. You will have the opportunity to develop your soft and technical skills in a variety of end-to-end activities, including designing, building, and testing. This includes challenging and exciting projects for aircraft that are already flying and those that may fly in the future.

The Laboratory Test Means Architecture and Integration team is responsible for the design, development, manufacturing, and maintenance of all Laboratory Test Means (LTM) within the Systems Integration Test perimeter. The team is transnational, with members in Toulouse, Hamburg, Bremen, and Filton.

The scope of LTMs we cover includes:

• Virtual Platforms;
  
• Functional Integration Benches/System Integration Benches;
  
• Type 0 means (e.g., LG 0) representative of the aircraft;
  
• Ad-hoc test benches for various purposes (e.g., rapid prototyping).
  

Our departmental strategy fully supports the vision of the Integration and Flight Test Centre to develop a 'single test team' identity, covering all tests from suppliers to flight tests.

What you will be doing:

The main activities you will perform as part of this team are:

• Laboratory test means support;
  
• Test Mean design and development for new test rigs;
  
• Maintenance and evolution of current test rigs;
  
• Maintenance and Development of the Test Management System (TMS);
  
• Testing of new releases of TMS;
  
• Integration of new hardware (e.g. I/O board);
  
• Obsolescence management of hardware;
  
• Contributing to the department s future test strategy;
  
• Support projects seeking to promote new hardware technologies;
  
• Innovate new features for test benches (e.g. Test bench interconnection, Predictive health monitoring).
  

The aim of this internship is to assist the LTM engineers on various activities, within the design and/or maintenance groups of the department. This could include the design and development of electrical and/or electronic hardware for test benches and other testing needs.

Activities carried out could involve any Airbus commercial aircraft programme, another Airbus entity programme or R&T work. This may also require trips to various Airbus sites and/or at supplier facilities.

Furthermore, significant opportunities to develop soft skills will be available throughout the internship by supporting and conducting a range of development tasks including school liaison events and departmental activities.

Requirements:

Our placements are open to Undergraduates only . Therefore it is mandatory for candidates to be an undergraduate for the whole duration of the placement. Please inform your graduation date on your application.

Your application should include a CV along with a Cover Letter outlining your motivation and suitability for the role.

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Studying towards a degree in Electrical and/or Electronics Engineering;
  
• Fascinated by technical challenges, with good amount of curiosity to understand how things are made;
  
• Committed to deliver on time;
  
• Good interpersonal skills and capable of working as a team and autonomously;
  
• Project management knowledge or interest;
  
• Negotiation level of English both written and spoken;
  
• Nice to have interest in electronics for control systems;
  
• Knowledge or experience of Autocad, Fusion 360, and use of diagnostic equipment (Scopes, DVMs) would be an advantage;
  
• Basic awareness of electrical safety would be a plus.
  

SECURITY CLEARANCE: You will be subject to a BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) check. You may also need to gain UK SC-level Security Clearance or Export Control, depending on the role.

Contact

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Company:
Airbus Operations Limited

Employment Type:
Internship
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Experience Level:
Student

Job Family:
Testing

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