Applus IDIADA is a global partner to the automotive industry with over 30 years’ experience supporting its clients in product development activities by providing design, engineering, testing and homologation services.

Our mission is to provide our customers with high-end engineering services, and thus achieve our goal of being recognized as one of the most innovative, comprehensive, customer-focused, and sustainability-oriented automotive engineering service providers worldwide.

We are looking for a Systems Engineer with knowledge of the automotive sector (commercial vehicles in particular will be highly valuable). As a member of the Architecture team of the Applus IDIADA Group, your mission will be to establish new methodologies related to System Engineering for OEMs.

Your main responsibilities (shared with the rest of the System Engineering team), will be:

• Requirement definition and management from vehicle to component level (Functional and non-functional approach)
• Test case definition
• Definition of vehicle breakdown structure

You will give support to the following areas, guaranteeing de methodology and traceability:

• Inputs from stakeholders
• Technical product definition (experts on the systems/functions)
• Test and validation
• Component owners
• Manufacturing
• Quality

The position is based in South-East of Nantes (Rorthais), mostly at our client’s site.

Periodic visits to other IDIADA France offices as well as IDIADA main technical centre in Spain will be necessary for managerial reviews, trainings, and technical exchanges. Participation to client visits across Europe or worldwide could also be required.

Desired profile

• Hand’s on, pro-active, and helpful attitude.
• Problem solving and customer centric mindset.
• Open to work in a very international company with multicultural team.
• Recognizable empathy, with team spirit, and with high level of assertiveness.
• Committed, goal driven, with successful result orientation and with strong service orientation.
• Good communication skills and confident in discussions at different hierarchical levels
• Languages: Strong professional capabilities in French and English. Other languages will be an asset

Desired technical competencies

• Ideally experience and/or education in engineering specialised in Industrials, Mechatronics, Electronics or Electronics.
• At least 2 years’ proven experience in a system engineering role
• Knowledge of Application lifecycle management tools (Siemens Polarion, IBM DOORS, Vector PREEvision...)
• System engineering tools and processes are highly valuable (MBSE, Rhapsody, SysML, ASPICE, AUTOSAR...)

Our values

• Proactive – shows eagerness in learning & finding ways to meet deliverables without dependency.
• Curiously investigate everything – ability to solve problems analytically, creatively, and collaboratively
• Lead with confidence – thought leaders who empower those around them.
• Learn by doing – an entrepreneurial mindset that’s driven by hands-on experimentation.
• Embrace resilience – seeing every challenge as a learning opportunity and invitation to grow.

• You will be offered a competitive salary with variable remuneration in line with your experience.
• Access to a comprehensive health care package
• You will be offered meal vouchers.
• The position is open to part time homeworking although onsite presence will be very frequent