Jobs at Thales

Provides administrative and coordination support for the IAS UK College and Academy team. Responsibilities include managing enquiries, recruitment and development events, onboarding and induction, learning programmes, stakeholder relationships, records, reporting, and project initiatives. The role requires strong organisation, communication, prioritisation, problem-solving, confidentiality, and proficiency with Microsoft Office. The coordinator supports employee attraction, development, retention, and engagement across internal and external partnerships.

Provides commercial legal advice for contracting, procurement, legal projects, data privacy, compliance, and contractual risk management. The role supports CSP business operations, develops efficient legal processes and self-service tools, manages stakeholder relationships, and oversees compliance with anti-corruption, antitrust, export control, GDPR, CCPA, and related Group policies.

Own Customer Success operations through Planhat administration, data governance, SQL-based analysis, Power BI reporting, process improvement, AI automation, and team enablement. The role maintains integrations and data quality across Planhat, Snowflake, Salesforce, and other systems; develops dashboards and operational insights; supports AI and LLM use cases; trains teams; and partners cross-functionally to improve customer processes and outcomes.

Provides practical legal and regulatory advice for cybersecurity products, partnering with product, engineering, compliance, and business teams. Responsibilities include monitoring legislation and industry standards, reviewing products and communications, drafting contracts and policies, preparing regulatory submissions, advising on legal risks, and supporting compliance projects, training, and legal knowledge resources.

Lead mechanical design and development for weapon, missile, and platform systems within Thales Integrated Airspace Systems. Deliver detailed designs, engineering analyses, simulations, documentation, configuration management, and manufacturable solutions. Drive technical decisions, engineering change activities, product lifecycle integrity, and delivery against cost and schedule targets. Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration across multidisciplinary defence engineering teams.

Senior Commercial Legal Counsel supporting Thales Cyber Security Products on a 12-month fixed-term contract. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating software licensing, SaaS, professional services, channel partner, vendor, confidentiality, and technology agreements; advising business units and management; addressing contractual risks; improving legal processes; and maintaining compliant contract templates. The role requires a qualified practicing lawyer with at least five years of commercial contract experience, strong negotiation skills, and familiarity with software, hardware, licensing, and data privacy matters.

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.

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 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.

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.