Airbus Digital Campus in Albacete aims for 200 staff by 2029

Who is being hired

Mónica Sánchez Ruiz, from the automation team, says the company is looking for "quite diverse profiles", not only aerospace engineers. Business analysts and artificial intelligence specialists are among those mentioned. Roles do not necessarily involve designing or building aircraft.

About 60% of the vacancies being published at the time were aimed at recent graduates, she said. That refers to openings, not hires already made. Airbus works with the University of Castilla-La Mancha, but external selection processes also exist, so the university route is not the only way in.

What the teams do

The automation team uses UiPath to build software robots (RPA) that handle repetitive computer tasks. One example: collecting data from SAP, processing it in Excel and emailing the result, a routine that once took five hours and can now be scheduled to run overnight.

Carlos López Alfaro, head of digital transformation at Airbus Helicopters Spain, described the use of Microsoft HoloLens 2 headsets to overlay 3D images on helicopters, with examples in painting and the placement of electrical brackets. The software for this was being developed in France and Germany, and Airbus planned to extend that work to Albacete.

The cybersecurity team, represented by Chema García, works with Airbus Helicopters colleagues in other countries to find and fix vulnerabilities in corporate IT systems, not in the software embedded in helicopters. Asked whether AI will reduce the need for specialists, he answered: "Right now in cybersecurity I'd say it increases it."

Candidates can filter Airbus Helicopters listings on LinkedIn by Albacete or search the Airbus Careers portal directly.