Job Specifications
John Cockerill, enablers of opportunities
Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time: facilitating access to low carbon energies, enabling sustainable industrial production, preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, enhancing security and installing essential infrastructures.
Its offer to businesses, governments and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defence, industry, the environment, transports, and infrastructures. With more than 8,000 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of EUR 1.417 billion in 2024 in 28 countries, on 5 continents.
John Cockerill has been providing its expertise to the defense industry for 200 years. Today, John Cockerill Defense offers Cockerill(r) modular gun turrets from 25 to 120 mm caliber, Arquus(r) high-mobility vehicles, technical and tactical training on these systems, and Agueris simulators.
Your Mission
This internship aims to develop a custom simulator for weapon interfaces. The system should be able integrate various interfaces and make them accessible to the upper software layer.
Define the needs
You will start by understanding how our systems work and especially the different hardware interfaces used and will define the requirements for the development.
Conceptual design
You will do some research on different hardware buses used in the industry.
You will design the architecture (mechanical, hardware, and software) of the simulator.
Create the prototype hardware and software
You will design a board which exposes the different interfaces of the systems used in John Cockerill Defense.
You will design a software which interfaces the different hardware interfaces. The software should be designed to easily add features such as display control and random error generation. The software should be configurable.
You will design a prototype of a mechanical box to easily interfacing the simulator with the John Cockerill system.
Subject Discussed
RS485/422, RS232, CAN and ethernet
PCB design using Altium, layout best practices, IPC-2222
C embedded
Mechanical design, eventual 3D drawing/printing prototype enclosure.
Military environmental specifications: EMC, shock, vibrations, Connector...
MIL-STD 1275, MIL-STD 461, ...
Software architecture design
Optional: Error generator based on random generator
Optional: Display management
Your Profile
Student in a master's degree education level in electronic
Minimum level B2 in French and English
Available for at least of 2-3 months
Your Internal Support
During this internship, you will be supported by the electronic R&D department and the electronic industrialization and prototyping department of John Cockerill Defense. The internal supervisors will be:
Matthieu Close (R&D engineer) - Hardware design
Pierre Leroy (R&D engineer) - Weapon/Sensors Interfaces
Quentin Gaspart (R&D engineer) - Software Design
Maxime Javaux(R&D engineer) - Hardware design
What We Offer You
Immersion in a stimulating, technology-driven environment
Concrete and rewarding responsibilities
A caring and passionate team
We look forward to receiving your application and meeting you.
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About the Company
John Cockerill designs, integrates, modernizes and maintains equipment in the domains of energy, defence, steelmaking, the environment and industry in general.
John Cockerill assists its clients throughout the whole of the lifecycle of their equipment, to improve its economic, technical and environmental performance.
The benefits of John Cockerill are numerous: a unique combination of engineering and maintenance expertise and in the management of technical international projects, a vast geographical and technological scope a...
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