Airbus UpNext Internship 2026 - Artificial Intelligence integration for collaboration & Communication (m/f)

Job Description:

The Airbus UpNext Optimate demonstrator will pave the way to smart automation capabilities by integration of new innovative bricks including computer vision and data fusion. The goal is to help the pilots and facilitate the mission.

The Artificial Intelligence integration for collaboration & Communication internship is within Airbus UpNext, will ideally begin in MARCH 2026  (date subject to flexibility), and will last for a period of 5  to 6  months (not exceeding September the 30th 2026).

Mission

Working directly with the software team, your mission will be to develop, train, and above all, integrate AI components into our demonstrator.

• NOTAM Management: Pilots receive hundreds of often unreadable NOTAM (Notice To Air Missions) messages. You will develop a model capable of semantically analyzing these messages to tag them (Weather, Runway closed, Danger, Info) and prioritize them according to the flight plan.

• Voice Interface (Speech-to-Text):

  • Implement a voice transcription engine (such as Whisper or an equivalent optimized version) capable of running on the Cloud and locally (Edge AI).

  • Goal: Allow for automatic transcription of radio communications from air traffic control.

• System Integration: This is not just about writing Python in a notebook! You will need to port your models so they run on our architecture (C++/Python integration, containerization, CPU/GPU resource optimization).

Your boarding pass

What you bring:

• Engage in Engineer Master’s degree in IA specialization, Data Science, On-Board systems or a related field 

• Frameworks IA : PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face (Transformers), spaCy.

• NLP architecture Knowledge (BERT, LLM …)

• ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) knowledge

• Interest with Edge AI (ONNX, TensorRT, Quantization) techniques.

• Strong Knowledge in Python mandatory 

• C++ ou Rust knowledge for integration purpose 

• Knowledge on Internet Of Things (IOT) and cloud technologies

• Passion about technology, science

• Eagerness to take initiatives to propose simpler and efficient ways of working

• Impatience and burning desire to attain rapidly, along with a healthy skepticism for progress

• Values of transparency, humility, empathy

• Autonomy, Adaptability, Availability, Accountability

• Agile mindset, Pramatisme approach (("Done is better than perfect")

• Team-Player mindset

• Willingness to have fun.

What you get:

• A fun and supportive working environment that not only fosters your development in many ways, but also rewards it with plenty of room to grow

• A shared open space office with highly skilled multicultural teams

• UpNext communities bonding events

• A high-achieving, experienced and fun team

• Canteen with a different desert each day and free coffee

Description of Airbus UpNext 

Founded in 2017, Airbus UpNext focuses on flying future technologies at speeds well beyond what seems feasible today. In doing so, it is actively shaping the future of the aerospace industry.

Designed as a talent incubator, Airbus UpNext is a place where you can act and think like a startup while building on the strong expertise of Airbus, a place where you are empowered to test & challenge new processes and ways of working. 

Airbus UpNext’s demonstrators evaluate, mature and validate potential new products and services that encompass radical technological breakthroughs. It has three flagships locations in France, Germany and Spain, to rapidly develop and test future technologies in scaled applications.

Our mission is:

• To identify the trends that could disrupt the future of the aerospace industry and evaluate them to demonstrate their potential as a viable product.

• To accelerate traditional research cycles and prototype development to achieve proof of concept in a real environment and at a convincing scale and speed.

• To develop real-world applications for emerging aerospace technologies, thereby driving their maturity and increasing their value.

• To be THE reference for Technology Value Assessment
   

Our Values: #Keep it Simple #Be Audacious #Exploring Together

Our DNA: #Speed of Execution, #Caring for Each Other, #Open to the World

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

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