Jobs at ArianeGroup

Six-month internship designing and validating a power electronics control board for an electric motor actuating cryogenic rocket-engine valves. Responsibilities include defining hardware specifications, designing schematics and PCB layouts using Altium or KiCad, integrating existing embedded software, and conducting laboratory testing. The role requires electronics and power electronics knowledge, practical circuit-design experience, and familiarity with laboratory instruments and embedded systems.

Operate and maintain measurement, data acquisition, sensor, and control systems for aerospace production and development testing. Configure and verify equipment, inspect cabling, analyze test data and anomalies, perform preventive and corrective maintenance, identify operational issues, and propose safety and process improvements. The role requires strict HSE compliance, reporting, teamwork, and flexibility for scheduled testing campaigns, overtime, and occasional two-shift work.

Six-month mechanical and dimensional metrology internship supporting ArianeGroup’s sensor control activities. Responsibilities include finalizing an interferometric linear-displacement calibration bench, managing reference standards, validating measurement software, automating measurement-data collection, creating calibration procedures, and calculating measurement uncertainties. The role requires knowledge of sensors, metrology, quality, Visual Basic, Office tools, and data-automation software, along with fluent English and a proactive, autonomous approach.

Six-month materials engineering internship at ArianeGroup focused on metallic additive manufacturing for rocket engines. Responsibilities include defining and conducting test plans, characterizing innovative metallic materials through metallographic, microscopic, surface-treatment, and mechanical analyses, synthesizing results, and contributing to technical monitoring and development planning.

Support and standardize project management for hydrogen mobility and future liquid-propellant engine projects. Responsibilities include consolidating project estimation methods and actual costs, documenting lessons learned, developing a project estimation model, and establishing risk and opportunity management practices. The intern will define key issues and mitigation levers, then manage and test them on a project. The role is based in Vernon for a six-month placement.

Internship focused on modeling cryogenic insulated piping and pressure losses in flexible piping systems. Responsibilities include developing theoretical thermal and hydraulic models, validating them through finite element simulations and test data, evaluating solution costs, and integrating the results into internal piping sizing and pressure-loss calculation tools.

Six-month mechanical engineering internship developing a representative 3D finite-element model of flexible lines used in rocket engines. Responsibilities include deriving orthotropic mechanical properties from scientific literature and analytical models, implementing them in the model, improving braid-to-corrugated contact modeling, comparing results with prior studies, and validating stress and deformation predictions against experimental data.

Six-month internship researching and improving AI models for high-frequency signal processing from rotor measurement systems used in rocket engine testing. Responsibilities include reviewing relevant AI approaches, developing enhanced filtering methods, integrating physical system modeling, and evaluating models on real signals. The role requires a BAC+5 specialization in signal processing, AI and neural-network knowledge, and fluent English.

Support cost collection and analysis for components, assembly, testing, non-quality, methods, and engineering activities. Analyze additional budget requests and calculate ROI using benchmarks and optimization scenarios. Help design a digital cost-tracking solution with Excel, Power BI, or a dedicated tool to automate data collection, scenario simulations, and reporting. Train teams on the solution and contribute to industrial performance improvement.

Six-month internship developing thermo-hydraulic CFD models for two-phase flows and heat transfer in cryogenic propulsion-system tanks. Responsibilities include literature review, numerical tool implementation, experimental configuration modeling, sensitivity analysis of propellant pressurization and sloshing phenomena, and industrialization of numerical methods. Candidates should be pursuing a BAC+5 degree specializing in fluid mechanics, with advanced CFD knowledge and at least B2 English proficiency.

Six-month internship analyzing turbopump tests at ArianeGroup. Responsibilities include adopting laboratory signal-analysis methods, integrating them into an internal Python module, and supporting cavitating inducer test analysis. The role develops expertise in turbomachinery and experimental analysis within ArianeGroup’s space propulsion activities.

Six-month supply chain internship focused on optimizing internal logistics at ArianeGroup’s Vernon site. Responsibilities include coordinating continuous-improvement projects, redesigning logistics facility layouts, managing technical and financial project aspects, coordinating schedules and stakeholders, liaising with internal departments and logistics providers, and assessing process robustness. The role requires graduate-level logistics studies, inventory management knowledge, office software proficiency, and preferably industrial internship and project-management experience.

Contribute to developing Python post-processing tools for thermo-mechanical structural analyses of combustion components and fluid connections. Learn the SAMCEF finite element solver and result formats, develop and validate an analysis justification tool on practical cases, and improve the existing thermo-mechanical post-processing workflow. The internship focuses on solid mechanics, finite element calculations, structural integrity, fatigue, damage tolerance, and thermal-mechanical behavior in spacecraft propulsion systems.

Internship supporting the Analysis Testing team at ArianeGroup. Responsibilities include reviewing and improving tools used to prepare and analyze rocket engine test-bench operations, implementing prioritized enhancements, and documenting tool performance and functional limitations. The role requires knowledge of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, energetics, and programming, with opportunities to develop expertise in complex rocket-engine test systems.

Develop Python-based statistical learning methods for rocket-engine design and test or simulation data. Responsibilities include implementing scalable regression and machine-learning models, validating them against physically generated reference data, identifying optimal correlations, and documenting methodologies. The role requires knowledge of applied statistics, aerospace engineering, fluid mechanics, combustion, object-oriented Python, Git, regression testing, and strong English proficiency.

Leads rocket engine testing campaigns at ArianeGroup’s Vernon test site. Responsibilities include coordinating teams of 5–15 people, ensuring safety, schedule and cost adherence, coordinating preventive and corrective maintenance, resolving anomalies, validating test and maintenance procedures, and providing technical on-call support. The role requires broad engineering expertise, complex project management experience, multidisciplinary coordination, and willingness to work planned shifts and travel internationally.

Performs calibration of measurement equipment, laboratory standards, and Ariane 6 sensors in laboratory, ArianeGroup, and customer sites. Provides metrology services to external clients, coordinates equipment shipments, maintains documentation, supports laboratory technical developments, and contributes to new equipment implementation and business growth. Requires physical measurement, data acquisition, and data processing skills, with occasional travel in France.

Designs and adapts industrial infrastructure, control-command systems, test applications, measurement systems, and assembly or launch facilities for aerospace and hydrogen mobility projects. Responsibilities include technical studies, sizing, documentation, subcontractor validation, construction oversight, commissioning, scheduling, cost management, and project follow-up. Requires industrial computing expertise, C and Structured Text programming, industrial communication protocols, network architectures, English proficiency, and frequent collaboration with suppliers and other sites.

Analyze detailed production costs for Ariane 6 liquid propulsion systems and rocket engines. Review manufacturing and design bills of materials, mechanical architectures, incidents, nonconformities, process changes, work-order rework, and industrial organization changes. Investigate cost variations, document findings, propose improvements, and present recurring cost analyses to production, assembly, testing, program, and work-package stakeholders. Collaborate with manufacturing, procurement, testing, and technical product teams.

Designs technical architectures for launcher test facilities and new-business projects. Analyzes customer needs, defines system solutions, manages interfaces and requirements traceability, prepares specifications, supports configuration management, and incorporates site safety and operational-security constraints. Coordinates multidisciplinary engineering teams, customers, experts, and suppliers while facilitating design reviews and continuous improvement. The role is based at ArianeGroup’s Vernon site and involves occasional travel in France.