Systems Engineer Graduate
About the job
- This is an entry-level graduate opportunity for individuals at the start of their professional career who have completed or are on track to complete a bachelor's degree in a STEM subject, including Aeronautical or Aerospace Engineering, Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, Systems Engineering, AI, Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Computing or Computer Science; other applicable technical or related degrees will be considered.
- Candidates should have limited relevant professional experience.
- Candidates must have the permanent right to work in the UK and be able to successfully complete and maintain UK Government security checks, including BPSS screening and Security Clearance (SC), before starting employment.
- Candidates will typically need to have lived continuously in the UK for the last five years to be eligible for SC clearance.
- Candidates must provide evidence of identity, right to work, time spent overseas during the last five years, and employment and/or education history for vetting.
- Complete a three-year Graduate Development Programme accredited by the IET, IMechE and RAeS.
- Participate in a potential Year 3 rotation around the country across different business units or an external secondment with a Thales partner.
- Participate in discipline-specific learning pathways and a core training pathway focused on transversal skills.
- Develop engineering skills, knowledge and competencies.
- Work in an assigned location and domain throughout the scheme to understand how the Engineering Function operates.
- Work on new and existing products.
- Build a professional network across the organisation.
- Work with and be supported by other engineers to design and develop engineering solutions for customer needs.
About the company
Thales designs and delivers critical technology for aerospace, defense, and digital security, including electronics, software, and data-security systems used in air travel, credit cards, and modern military platforms. It combines hardware and software to create avionics, radar, cybersecurity, and secure communications systems that collect sensor data, run specialized software, and protect networks. It distinguishes itself through end-to-end solutions across defense, aerospace, and cybersecurity, ongoing deep-tech research in AI and quantum, and strategic acquisitions such as Gemalto and Imperva, plus its 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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What believers are saying
- First-half 2026 orders rose 21%, and Reuters reported stronger-than-expected profit margins.
- Thales plans more than 9,000 hires in 2026, signaling sustained demand.
- New deals with Landis+Gyr, Danantara, and NigComSat-2A broaden cyber, defense, and space revenue.
What critics are saying
- Germany terminated the F126 frigate program on June 24, 2026, triggering a €450 million charge.
- Space orders fell despite €52 billion backlog, exposing Thales to program concentration risk.
- Imperva, Gemalto, and defense systems integration create existential execution risk if integration slips.
What makes Thales unique
- Thales launched HexaForce on September 17, 2026, for sovereign NATO command and control.
- Thales and Google Cloud integrated AI Security Fabric into Gemini Enterprise, enabling runtime governance.
- Thales accelerated defense production in Europe, with radar output quadrupling since 2021.
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↑ 3%Thales and Landis+Gyr have announced a strategic collaboration to provide secure cellular connectivity for smart meter deployments across North America. Thales will supply eSIM technology and IoT connectivity management to support digital transformation of utilities. The solution, combined with Simetric's platform, gives utilities a unified view of connectivity operations across their devices, enabling centralised monitoring and control of large-scale deployments. This reduces field interventions and improves operational efficiency. The installed base of smart electricity meters in North America is expected to grow from 152.4 million in 2024 to 180.9 million by 2030, according to Berg Insight. Landis+Gyr currently serves more than 2,000 utilities worldwide and has over 180 million connected intelligent devices in the field. The technology allows connectivity to be managed remotely, helping utilities adapt to changing network conditions whilst maintaining service continuity.
Safeguarding autonomous execution: Thales and Google Cloud partner to secure agentic AI workflows. As AI progresses from a passive co-pilot to more autonomous agentic execution, enterprise technologists confront an entirely new security problem: discovering how to defend multi-step, agent-to-agent workflows that reach "into" authentic databases and core systems. Early generative AI deployments enacted predictability through confined prompt invocation and flat text redirection, whereas agentic AI employs contextual, autonomous reasoning and planning, using a flexible, multi-channel, multi-tool playbook that might play out in all directions, making traditional CSPM/appliance/identity controls blind to potentially damaging agent comportment, prompt injection, or contextual bled across one's vast cloud ecosystem. To help overcome this bottleneck in cloud security, the worldwide leader in information security and defense Thales unveiled a strengthened strategic partnership with Google Cloud. The partnership integrates the Thales AI Security Fabric natively into Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise, establishing integrated runtime protection, threat detection, and policy enforcement across agentic AI workflows. The news: real-time runtime enforcement and agent-to-agent governance. The primary technical advancement delivered by the Thales and Google Cloud collaboration is the transition from perimeter-based cloud security to in-line, runtime governance for autonomous agents. Rather than treating AI models as simple software endpoints, the integrated architecture continuously monitors communications between autonomous agents, foundational models, enterprise data lakes, and third-party tools. Key architectural capabilities introduced in the announcement include: Real-Time Agentic Threat Mitigation: Protects against emerging AI vulnerability vectors including direct and indirect prompt injection, sensitive data spillages, unsafe model outputs, and unauthorized system commands. Agent-to-Agent Communication Control: Implements granular permission boundaries governing how autonomous agents interact with one another, preventing cascading unauthorized actions across multi-agent workflows. Integrated Gemini Enterprise Governance: Connects the Thales AI Security Fabric directly into Google Cloud's enterprise AI suite, giving security operations (SecOps) teams unified visibility over model usage and data access. Centralized Compliance and Audit Tracing: Generates immutable, real-time audit trails detailing agent decisions, tool execution histories, and data touchpoints to satisfy regulatory governance frameworks. Transforming the Enterprise Cybersecurity & Cloud Infrastructure industry. The joint release by Thales and Google Cloud marks a decisive structural turning point across the Enterprise Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, and AI Governance sectors. The Phase-Out of "Static" Cloud Security Models For years, cloud security platforms relied on static identity and access management (IAM) roles, API gateways, and perimeter firewalls. However, autonomous agents do not follow predictable, linear code paths; they dynamically evaluate goals, call external APIs, and execute database queries on the fly. This integration accelerates the obsolescence of static perimeter defenses. The cybersecurity industry is entering an agentic runtime security era, where governance tools are evaluated on their ability to inspect model reasoning streams, evaluate context in real time, and intercept unauthorized agent commands before execution occurs. Establishing "Identity for AI Agents" as a Security Baseline As enterprises deploy hundreds of specialized AI agents across internal departments, defining agent identity and operational boundaries has emerged as a major challenge. By embedding the Thales AI Security Fabric into Google Cloud's AI infrastructure, the partnership establishes zero-trust agent identity as an enterprise standard. Security platforms must now treat AI agents as distinct digital identities equipped with specific least-privilege access boundaries, continuous authentication, and strict action limits. Broad operational impact on enterprise businesses operating in this sector. These are the direct business cases and strategic benefits that integrated agentic security tools offer to CISOs CTOs cloud architects managing AI pipelines: Accelerated Transition from AI Pilots to Production: Strengthening security guardrails allows executive leadership to implement autonomous agent initiatives beyond R&D sandboxes and into core business processes. Prevention of Catastrophic Operational Anomalies: Identifies unwanted agent actions before they execute rogue commands that would change production database, delete cloud infrastructure or dump proprietory intellectual property. Simplified Multi-Jurisdictional Regulatory Compliance: centralized audit logs of agent-driven data access then also make it easier to report toward compliance with strict privacy laws and new international AI safety regulations. Lowered Total Cost of Security Operations (TCO): Placing agent runtime security on the core cloud platform removes the requirement for developing costly, custom in-house security wrappers for every individual AI model deployment. By replacing reactive security measures with proactive, runtime agent governance, Thales and Google Cloud provide a viable blueprint for the agentic era enabling enterprises to unleash autonomous AI productivity without compromising systemic security or regulatory compliance.
C12 and Thales develop quantum system for real-time radar tracking. C12 and Thales unveil QuantumTrack for radar tracking. French companies C12 and Thales have introduced QuantumTrack, a hybrid quantum-classical system for real-time radar tracking of multiple targets. The project has been implemented on an emulator and has reached Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5. The next step will be testing on C12's physical processor. Quantum processor tackles complex tasks. QuantumTrack addresses one of the most challenging computational tasks in radar technology: implementing the Multiple Hypothesis Tracking algorithm. With each scan, the radar must match thousands of detections with known trajectories while filtering out noise and false targets. The number of possible combinations grows exponentially, forcing classical algorithms to limit the number of hypotheses considered to meet real-time requirements. C12 and Thales have proposed distributing computations between the classical and quantum parts of the system. The quantum processor handles the most demanding phase - selecting compatible hypotheses. The large task is divided into smaller sub-tasks, solved using quantum annealing, and then integrated with the original model. Performance comparable to classical algorithms. In two scenarios with noisy measurements and interference, QuantumTrack achieved solution times comparable to the best classical algorithms. The system was approximately 100 times faster than other tested quantum annealers. Tests were conducted on Callisto, C12's emulator that simulates the behavior of a physical processor with 20 qubits, including errors and decoherence. According to the developers, considering the already established protocol for active qubit reset, the complete QuantumTrack cycle could take about 50 ms. This, according to the partners, brings the system closer to real-time radar tracking requirements. Next step: physical processor. The project received the 2026 Quantum Effects Award in the quantum computing hardware category. The next goal for the partners is to demonstrate the system on C12's physical processor, advancing to TRL 6. The companies are considering applications in air defense systems and drone air traffic management. Thales, a global producer of information systems for aerospace, military, and maritime applications, serves as the project's system integrator. C12 is tasked with developing a quantum annealer for large-scale real-time optimization for QuantumTrack. In August, Thales introduced the Luna 8 hardware security module for creating, storing, and managing cryptographic keys. Found a mistake in the text? Select it and press CTRL+ENTER
Oil project: Milei sets deadline for UK. Online since today, 3:15 a.m. The Argentine government has given the UK a two-week deadline to stop current oil extraction plans near the Falkland Islands. Otherwise, the South American country will call on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Argentine President Javier Milei said in a statement published on platform X. The reason for Milei's ultimatum is the "Sea Lion" project, promoted by two companies from the UK and Israel, which aims to carry out offshore oil extraction around 220 kilometers north of the archipelago. Milei views the unilateral exploitation of the Falkland Islands' natural resources under British licensing as a violation of UN resolutions and international law. Argentina will not stand idly by, but will resolutely defend its sovereign rights, Milei said. In addition, Argentina announced legal action against the company Thales UK Limited, which, according to the government in Buenos Aires, is carrying out "illegal flights" between Punta Arenas in southern Chile and the Falkland Islands. These are conducted by an aircraft with British registration and without authorization from the Argentine authorities.
Thales Jumps to No. 22 in TIME and Statista's 'World's Best Companies 2026' List - Military / Defense / Homeland Security - Thales Group. / | Thales Jumps to No. 22 in TIME and Statista's 'World's Best Companies 2026' List | | / | NewswireTODAY - /newswire/ - Paris, Île-de-France, France, 2026/09/25 - Thales has leapt over 200 places in TIME and Statista's annual ranking of the world's leading companies, reaching No. 22 and demonstrating strong momentum across key areas - TIME.com / ThalesGroup.com. Euronext: HO | | / | Your Banner Ad Here instead - Showing along with ALL Articles covering Military / Defense / Homeland Security Announcements Replace these Affiliate Programs at ANYTIME! Your banner here within the next hour. Learn How! | | / | Discover more news NewswireTODAY Business Formation Thales is now the second highest ranked French company in the list, and the first company in the aerospace and defence sectors. Each year, the statistical study evaluates companies equally across three pillars: Employee Satisfaction, Sustainability Transparency (ESG), and Revenue Growth. For Thales, the year-on-year rise in 2026 reflects a rare combination: increased job satisfaction alongside clear, measurable ESG disclosure and continued business success. Talent attraction and engagement at the core Thales' long-term growth and technology leadership depend, in particular, on attracting and engaging the best people. The Group supports a proactive talent pipeline, building close ties with schools and universities worldwide. Each year, Thales welcomes more than 4,000 interns and apprentices globally. In 2025, Thales received more than 1.4 million job applications and hired over 8,800 people. For 2026, it plans to recruit 9,000 people, with 40% in engineering and 25% in industrial roles. ESG transparency and commitments through PROTECT Thales continues to deliver against its CSR commitments. Last year, the Group met all its CSR targets on three pillars: Society, Planet and People and was included in the CDP Climate A List for the third consecutive year. Under its PROTECT sustainability roadmap, Thales has also set nine targets for 2030 to help make the world safer, greener and more inclusive. Strong performance, driven by R&D and innovation Over the last three years, Thales revenue has increased markedly, reaching €22.1 billion in 2025. The Group continues to invest heavily in innovation, with €4.5 billion dedicated to R&D every year, including €1.3 billion in self-funded innovation. With 34,000 engineers working on advances in areas including trusted AI, edge computing, cryptography, 6G and quantum technologies, Thales is strengthening its ability to meet evolving customer requirements in dynamic markets. About Thales Thales (thalesgroup.com) is a global leader in advanced technologies for the Defence, Aerospace, and Cyber & Digital sectors. Its portfolio of innovative products and services helps address several major challenges: sovereignty, security, sustainability and inclusion. The Group allocates €4.5 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Quantum and Cloud technologies. Thales has more than 85,000 employees in 65 countries. In 2025, the Group generated sales of €22.1 billion. | | / | Your Banner Ad Here instead - Showing along with ALL Articles covering Military / Defense / Homeland Security Announcements Replace these Affiliate Programs at ANYTIME! Your banner here within the next hour. Learn How! | | / | Agency / Source: Thales Group | | / | Availability: All Regions (Including Int'l) | | / | Traffic Booster: [/] Quick NewswireToday Visibility Checker | | / | Distribution / Indexing: [+] / [Company listed above is a registered member of its network. 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