6 hours ago
Crawley, United KingdomEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Prepare, explore, validate, and improve data for machine learning use cases.
- Develop and evaluate machine learning models and AI-enabled software components.
- Write clean, tested, and documented code using appropriate engineering tools and practices.
- Support model integration, deployment, monitoring, and performance improvement.
- Contribute to technical reviews, experiments, troubleshooting, and structured problem solving.
- Collaborate with experienced engineers, researchers, software specialists, data specialists, systems specialists, and domain specialists on live projects.
Requirements
- Three A Levels with grades B or above in Maths and at least one relevant subject such as Physics, Computer Science, Software, or ICT, or a similar Level 4/5 apprenticeship.
- At least five GCSEs at grades 9–4 (A–C), including English and Maths.
- Computer Science graduates are not eligible because of funding restrictions.
- Permanent right to work in the UK and the ability to complete and maintain BPSS and SC security clearance.
- Typically, applicants must have lived continuously in the UK for the last five years to be eligible for SC clearance.
Benefits
- £24,000 per annum salary with performance-related pay uplifts.
- Permanent employment from the start of the apprenticeship, with tuition fees fully paid.
- Level 6 AI Engineer/Machine Learning Engineer apprenticeship qualification and Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer Associate qualification.
- Hands-on experience, job-specific training, learning and development support, and virtual learning through lectures, online resources, and self-directed study.
- 201 hours of annual holiday plus a company day and bank holidays.
- Contributory company pension, Health Care Cash Plan, life cover, employee assistance programme, employee discounts, wellbeing initiatives, and 80 hours of volunteering during the first two years.
- Hybrid and flexible working options.
- Monday–Friday, 37-hour working schedule, with a start date of 6 September 2027 and assessment centres scheduled between February and May 2027.
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About Thales
Thales designs and sells defense, aerospace, space, and digital identity/cybersecurity systems to governments, armed forces, infrastructure operators, and enterprises. Its portfolio spans avionics, radars and sensors, satellites, air traffic management, secure communications, and cybersecurity and identity solutions (bolstered by the 2019 Gemalto acquisition). Headquartered in Meudon, France, Thales is publicly traded on Euronext Paris (HO) and reported €20.6 billion in sales in 2024.