Jobs at Thales

Complete a three-year manufacturing apprenticeship while gaining hands-on experience across high-precision production operations. Rotate through manufacturing areas, learn mechanical, electrical, or mechatronic assembly, work from engineering drawings and production instructions, and develop skills in lean manufacturing, quality standards, problem-solving, and safe production practices. Attend college through paid day release and work toward Level 2 and Level 3 engineering qualifications, with a permanent role from the start.

Entry-level three-year software engineering graduate programme involving structured training, engineering development, product and solution design, and work across new and existing customer programmes. Candidates may rotate across business units or complete an external secondment. The role requires a relevant computer or software engineering degree, UK work authorization, and successful completion of BPSS and SC security checks.

Four-year degree apprenticeship developing skills as an Integrated Logistics Support Engineer while studying for a BEng in Mechatronic Engineering. Responsibilities include supporting systems requirements and design, project reviews, testing and validation, engineering investigations, ILS planning, supportability analysis, technical documentation, data management, spare-parts analysis, training materials, maintenance strategies, and stakeholder engagement. The role is based in Belfast with university study and practical engineering work at Thales.

Three-year graduate systems engineering programme developing engineering solutions for defence, aerospace, space, and digital security products. Participants receive structured training, work with experienced engineers, contribute to new and existing products, and may rotate across business units or complete an external secondment in Year 3. The role requires a STEM degree, permanent UK work rights, and successful completion of BPSS and SC security checks.

Apprenticeship supporting bid and project management through schedule creation, project reporting, risk and opportunity management, governance, and monitoring of budgets and project controls. The three-year program combines practical work at Thales with a Pearson BTEC Level 5 Higher National Diploma in Business. Responsibilities include maintaining integrated master schedules, attending reviews, using Thales project management tools, and completing required academic training and assessments.

Three-year graduate engineering programme focused on developing industrial process engineering skills through supported work on new and existing products. Participants follow accredited technical and transversal learning pathways, may rotate across business units or complete a secondment, and build engineering competencies and professional networks. The role is based in Belfast and requires UK right to work plus successful BPSS and SC security checks.

Three-year Level 5 higher apprenticeship combining college study at South Eastern Regional College with practical engineering rotations at Thales. The apprentice will develop skills across mechanical engineering, electronics, software, hardware, and systems, progressing toward mechatronic engineering specialization. Responsibilities include learning engineering design and problem-solving, supporting solutions within cost, quality, and manufacturing constraints, collaborating across teams, and completing a Foundation Engineering Degree with potential progression to a BEng.

Apprentices develop industrial process engineering skills through college study and practical work in manufacturing engineering. Responsibilities include assessing manufacturing readiness, defining and optimizing processes, tooling, documentation and workflows, supporting health and safety, managing configuration changes and failures, attending review boards, and implementing equipment test and control plans. The three-year programme leads to a Level 5 Foundation Engineering Degree in Mechatronics, with potential progression to a BEng.

Three-year graduate engineering programme focused on developing engineering skills, designing and developing customer solutions, completing structured training, and working across products and engineering programmes. Graduates may rotate across business units or undertake an external secondment in Year 3 while building professional networks and competencies. The role is based in Belfast and requires UK work authorization and successful completion of BPSS and Security Check clearance.

A two-year graduate programme rotating through project planning and controls, bid management, and project management placements. The role includes formal APM training, on-the-job development, a dedicated graduate project, and work across multiple Thales UK sites. Candidates must hold or be pursuing a bachelor’s degree, have permanent UK work rights, relocate between sites, and meet strict UK Government security and nationality requirements.

A four-year Level 6 apprenticeship combining university study at Ulster University with practical engineering experience at Thales. The apprentice will develop mechatronics skills across mechanical engineering, electronics, software, hardware, and systems engineering through rotations, project work, and workplace learning. The program leads to a BEng in Mechatronic Engineering and a permanent role, with training focused on engineering design, problem-solving, manufacturability, quality, cost, teamwork, and technical delivery.

Provides senior commercial and contractual leadership across bids and contract delivery for integrated airspace protection systems. Responsibilities include contract negotiation, commercial risk advice, change control, claims and disputes, trade finance instruments, and contract governance compliance. The role partners with bid, project, operational, legal, and senior stakeholders in a regulated defence environment.

Owns and prioritizes the product backlog for secure hardware engineering environments. Defines requirements, acceptance criteria, and feature priorities; validates releases; gathers user feedback; and leads application evolution, migration, consolidation, and legacy-tool retirement. Acts as technical authority and architect while coordinating hardware engineers, product owners, architects, delivery teams, and leadership. The role requires practical hardware engineering experience and knowledge of engineering development environments, with responsibility for aligning tools to broader Thales roadmaps.

Lead the modernization of engineering tooling environments by migrating legacy platforms to Azure-based cloud infrastructure. Deploy and support CI/CD, artifact management, code quality, and licensing tools; develop Infrastructure as Code and automation; maintain existing environments; and provision infrastructure resources. Implement monitoring, backups, archiving, and logging best practices while supporting engineering users. Collaborate with product and delivery stakeholders, coach junior team members, and champion reliable, secure DevOps practices.

Supervise AI-assisted security workflows, validate alerts and triage recommendations, route complex investigations, maintain Bedrock and OpenSearch knowledge bases, audit AI output quality, refine prompts, track operational KPIs, train analysts, and provide feedback to automation engineering. The role also supports sales engineering proof-of-values and customer adoption. Requires cybersecurity operations experience, generative AI workflow exposure, AWS familiarity, technical documentation skills, and UK work authorization without visa sponsorship.

Processes vendor invoices, payments, employee expenses, credit card statements, and sales and use taxes. Maintains vendor records, reconciles accounts payable transactions, resolves invoice discrepancies, supports month-end close and accruals, and assists with audit documentation. The role also performs general accounting duties and collaborates with vendors, management, and auditors.

Provide advanced escalation support for Thales products: reproduce customer environments, perform root-cause analysis, validate interoperability and fixes, collaborate with development and QA, create knowledge resources, lead P1/P0 escalations, and participate in a mandatory 24x7 support rota.

Provide technical security advice and through-life assurance for Thales IS/IT environments. Deliver security reviews, cloud and incident response guidance, compliance to government standards, risk assessments, CoCo assurance, and security requirements for delivery squads. Maintain security documentation and support continual assurance, training, and remediation across on-premises and cloud systems.

Lead the architecture and technical strategy of advanced weapon systems. Define system concepts, interfaces, technical roadmaps, and innovative solutions while balancing performance, cost, schedule, risk, and compliance. Provide technical governance and leadership across the product lifecycle, act as the primary technical interface for customers and partners, and support design authority activities for complex defence programmes.

Lead the design and development of electronic systems across the full product lifecycle, including requirements capture, architecture, circuit and PCB design, component selection, testing, verification, integration, and regulatory compliance. Mentor engineers, lead technical studies and trade-offs, support bids and estimates, and develop safety-critical equipment for airspace-protection and missile systems.