Program Lead H/F

AI Roadmap & Governance: Define and maintain the long-term AI strategy, setting up the right guardrails, ethics, and governance framework without slowing down innovation.

• Ideation & PoCs: Act as the primary entry point for business teams; help them identify high-value AI use cases, bootstrap prototypes, and drive Proofs of Concept (PoCs).

Technical foundations

• Architecture & Standards: Define, maintain, and enforce AI architecture patterns, model validation workflows, and best practices across our organization.
• DevOps & Platform Engineering Integration: Pilot the integration of AI capabilities and model management into our existing DevOps foundries and platform engineering stacks (LLMOps/MLOps).
• AI Foundations: Coordinate with Digital to define and provision the technical stack (GPUs, compute but also AI tooling)

Adoption & Community

• Upskilling: Capture employees needs related to AI knowledge, define and deploy an upskilling program.
• Knowledge sharing: Foster a community of practice around AI, share best practices and lessons learned, create reusable blueprints.
• Assistance: Provide guidance to technical and non-technical teams on how to leverage existing AI models and tools effectively.

Experience: 8+ years in Software Engineering / Software Architecture, with at least 3+ years of hands-on experience in architectural design or leading AI/ML industrialization projects (MLOps/LLMOps).

• Tech Stack Fluency: Deep understanding of modern AI ecosystems (Cloud AI services, LLM orchestration frameworks like LangChain/LlamaIndex, model hosting, and vector databases).
• Engineering Culture: Good knowledge of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and CI/CD practices applied to data/AI workflows.
• Soft Skills: Outstanding communication. You can explain complex AI concepts to business stakeholders and discuss architecture patterns with senior developers. You understand the need for
• Change Management:You are familiar with change management concepts. As a bonus, experience in one or several transformation project(s).
• Industry Context: As a bonus, experience in Geospatial industry
• Language: Fluent in French and in English (written and spoken) is mandatory.

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.

Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.

• Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

Your Challenges

Strategy & Governance, This position requires a security clearance or will require being eligible for clearance by the recognized authorities.

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Cet emploi exige une connaissance des risques de conformité potentiels et un engagement à agir avec intégrité, comme base de la réussite, de la réputation et de la croissance durable de la société.

Unité légale: Airbus Defence and Space SAS

Type de contrat: CDI

Classe Emploi (France): Classe G14

Niveau d'expérience: Expérimenté(e)

Famille d'emplois: Management de programmes et de projets

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Airbus Defence and Space is looking for a AI Programm Lead(f/m) to join our Department based in Toulouse, France. Your mission is to orchestrate the company's AI transformation. You will act as the strategic bridge between business ambitions and technical reality. This involves two critical pillars: driving the AI roadmap through high-level stakeholder management to ensure alignment with business goals, and overseeing the build of the technical foundations required to scale AI securely and efficiently across our imagery services & solutions. Your working environment: Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city of the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor activities!