Stage/Internship - Development of a weapon simulator for Weapon Controller

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 € 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® modular gun turrets from 25 to 120 mm caliber, Arquus® 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.

1. 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.

2. 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. 

3. 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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