MasterThesis within Engineering: Applied Data Science in System Engineering

Job description

MasterThesis within Engineering: Applied Data Science in System Engineering

Airbus Defence & Space Manching

Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus Group formed by combining the business activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military. The new division is Europe's number one defence and space enterprise, the second largest space business worldwide and among the top ten global defence enterprises. It employs some 40,000 employees generating revenues of approximately €14 billion per year.

Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2016, it generated revenues of € 67 billion and employed a workforce of around 134,000. 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 civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.

Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place. Taking pride in our work, we draw on each other's expertise and experience to achieve excellence. Our diversity and teamwork culture propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

Description of the job

Are you looking for a master theis project? Would you like to discover the work of a Artificial Quality Assistant? Then apply now! We look forward to you joining us at the Mission Support Systems Development department.

Location: Manching
Start: 01.05.2017
Duration: 6 Months

The related department develops Mission Support Systems for our flying platforms Eurofighter, Tornado, A400M and MRTT and is located on our Airbus sites in Manching/Germany, Friedrichshafen/Germany and Getafe/Spain.
Mission Support Systems cover the preparation of the missions to be flown incl. Mission planning & rehearsal as well as the post-flight mission analysis & the de-briefing for the air crews.

Developing such mission support systems, involves phrasing the system's desired requirements and limitations. System decomposition and a progressive refinement of the system design are tools to confine complexity and savvy a product's layout and behavior. This procedure typically results in a multitude of connected descriptive artefacts, such as system requirement specifications, detailed design documentation, and system test specifications.
In Airbus, we are deliberate about our quality standards, and when developing systems, we put procedures in place, to ensure consistency of the above mentioned artefacts. However, this is mostly a manual and often time-consuming task, incompatible with today's fast and digitally enhanced innovation cycles.

Desired profile

Tasks & accountabilities

By means of this thesis, currently available technologies and approaches to algorithmically improve and complement our manual efforts in ensuring our quality standards shall be analyzed. This assistant should inspect development artifacts and reveal inconsistencies within and among them. A prototype shall be developed, borrowing practices from Advanced Analytics and Big Data, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science, to demonstrate the usefulness and applicability of such an artificial quality assistant.

Required skills

You offer:

·  Enrolled student (m/f) within Information Software-Engineering or similar field of study
·  Good Knowledge within the programms JAVA, C#, Eclipse and net-Framework
·  German: fluent
·  English: advanced

You are a good team player, have excellent communication skills, and are able to work independently.