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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Data Engineer

Data EngineeringPosted on Nov 6
Full-timeVélizy-Villacoublay, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A BAC+5 degree is required.
  • Data Engineering skills or experience, ideally in an industrial, technology, or highly constrained environment.
  • Experience with Python and SQL.
  • Experience with ETL/ELT and pipeline orchestration.
  • Experience integrating data and APIs.
  • Experience with data modeling and transformation.
  • Knowledge of data quality, cataloging, and traceability.
  • Knowledge of access management and data security.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD practices applied to data.
  • Experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments.
  • Experience preparing corpora for RAG architectures.
  • Knowledge of chunking, embeddings, and semantic search.
  • Attention to production concerns, including robustness, performance, monitoring, maintainability, and operating costs.
  • Ability to work in a developing environment where methods and standards are still being established, balancing experimentation, security, and industrialization.
  • Ability to work autonomously and pragmatically and communicate with technical, business, data, cybersecurity, and architecture stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Assess the availability, quality, accessibility, and sensitivity of data needed for AI use cases.
  • Connect and integrate industrial, technical, or documentary data from varied sources.
  • Design and maintain robust data pipelines.
  • Prepare reliable, documented, and reusable datasets.
  • Prepare corpora for generative AI solutions and RAG architectures through cleaning, classification, metadata enrichment, document chunking, and embeddings.
  • Ensure data quality, traceability, and compliance.
  • Account for access rights, confidentiality, classification, and data-sovereignty constraints.
  • Industrialize pipelines and integrate them into CI/CD, MLOps, and LLMOps environments.
  • Set up monitoring and supervision of data processing.
  • Collaborate with business, data, architecture, cybersecurity, and data-governance teams.
  • Document data sources, transformations, and usage rules.
  • Create reusable components and standards for future AI teams at LAS.
  • Share expertise and contribute to the collective's skill development.
  • Contribute to AI products that support searching and reusing technical knowledge, analyzing engineering documents and requirements, improving data quality and preparation, accelerating test-case generation and preparation, and using sensitive document corpora through secure RAG architectures.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with generative AI solutions, large language models, or RAG architectures.
  • Experience in defense, aeronautics, critical systems, or another environment with stringent security requirements.

About the Company

Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Thales designs and delivers critical technology for aerospace, defense, and digital security. Its products include electronics, software, and data-security systems that power air travel, payments, and modern military platforms, by integrating hardware and software to build systems such as avionics, radar, cybersecurity, and secure communications that collect sensor data and protect networks. It stands out through deep industrial experience, end-to-end solutions across defense, aerospace, and cybersecurity, and a focus on AI and quantum tech, aided by strategic acquisitions and partial state ownership. Its goal is to provide reliable, secure, and connected technologies that support national security, public safety, and everyday life by solving complex security and connectivity challenges.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Meudon, France
Founded
1893

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