System Engineering & AI (Hybrid)

Thales Group; Leganés; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Remote-friendly 2/3 days home

Restaurant allowance and health ins.

Job summary

Thales Group in Spain seeks an Artificial Intelligence Science Role to drive innovation within a multidisciplinary team and promote AI at the highest level of the organisation.

You will contribute to Thales AI strategy, develop expertise in your speciality, design AI functionalities and approaches, and work on NLP and multimodal dialogue to maximize customer value.

Qualifications

• Engineering Master degree; PhD a plus.
• Proven AI experience across environments and technologies.
• Mentoring and leadership abilities; strong collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Bring innovation through multidisciplinary teams and promote AI at the highest level.
• Contribute to Thales AI strategy by developing expertise in your specialty domain.
• Design AI functionalities and alternative approaches; drive breakthroughs.
• Work on NLP, Understanding, and multimodal Human-Machine Dialogue.
• Translate end-user needs into user-centric specifications; maximize customer value.

Skills

Team leadership

Mentoring / knowledge sharing

Creative thinking

Problem solving

Influencing teams

User-centric design

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Engineering master’s degree

Job description

Location: Madrid, Spain

Thales people architect solutions at the heart of the defence-security continuum. Interoperable and secure information and telecommunications systems for defence, security, and civil operators, are based upon innovative use of radiocommunications, networks, and cybersecurity. We are ground breaking new digital technologies such as 4G mobile communications, cryptography, cloud computing and big data for use in physical protection systems, and critical information systems.

Thales in Spain is a leader in technological solutions applied to Defence, Aeronautics, Security, Transportation and Space and, furthermore, is a global centre for excellence in Space, Security of Critical Infrastructures and Transportation. With a turnover of €320 million and a staff of 1,200, it exports approximately 40% of its total production principally to the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.

In Defence and security, armed forces, governments and global organisations entrust Thales with helping them achieve and maintain security, tactical superiority and strategic independence in the face of any type of threat. In an increasingly unpredictable world, governments rely on our expertise to protect their citizens and make the world safer, from designing smart sensors and connecting soldiers on the digital battlefield to delivering solutions that protect states, cities and critical infrastructures.

Thales SIX in Spain:

In Spain, Thales Sistemas is specialized in Command and Control systems, Tactical Communications and Modeling and Simulation addressing solutions in the domain of Defense and Security. Thales is the Spanish leader in tactical LandCIS (Communication and Information Systems)covering all the product life cycle (design, development, production, ILS). Based in Leganés, Thales Sistemas employs a highly specialized workforce of more than 100 people, most of them engineers that participate in the following activities:

• Communications and Information Systems (CIS) to support Command function and Decision Making:
• Embedded electronics for military aircraft
• Tactical Communications
• Radio Navigation Aids for air traffic

CANDIDATES THAT WOULD IMPRESS US

PROFILE:

• You graduated from an Engineering School with a master’s degree — a PhD is a plus
• You have a proven experience in different environments and technologies using Artificial Intelligence and you have occupied a position among the following: Artificial Intelligence engineer or Artificial Intelligence specialist, start-up CTO and Artificial Intelligence expert
• You are a mentor willing to share your knowledge
• You are recognised as a team player and enjoy collaborative work
• You have synthetic and helicopter view of the organisation
• You enjoy thinking “outside the box” and being creative
• You are resourceful, structured and solution oriented
• You want to influence and guide teams for strategic and technical decisions using an “outside in” approach
• You are user centric and want to design innovative solutions to fit your customers’ needs based on a continuous update of your expertise

COMPETENCIES:

• You have in-depth knowledge of one of the following specialties:
• Algorithm design
• Cooperative Human/Machine dialog
• Data Driven AI
• Symbolic AI and reasoning
• Systems Analysis
• Mathematics and statistics
• You have the ability to discuss with people from different jobs and backgrounds
• You have outstanding problem-solving skills and a passion to solve hard problems
• You have the ability to discuss with people from different jobs and backgrounds
• You are a Thought Leader with deep knowledge or even influence on the latest trends (technical, philosophical, ethical by design) and the Artificial Intelligence norms, laws and standards
• You are a team leader with strong abilities to influence and guide teams while promoting constructive confrontations and challenging attitudes

LIFE AS A THALES System and IA engineer

As an Artificial Intelligence Science Role within Thales, you will:

• Bring innovation through collaborative and multidisciplinary teams
• Support, develop and promote the Artificial Intelligence discipline at the highest level of the organisation
• Contribute to Thales Artificial Intelligence strategy by developing expertise in your Artificial Intelligence Speciality domain
• Propose and design Artificial Intelligence functionalities and alternative approaches or breakthroughs
• Work on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Understanding (NLU), and also to design multimodal approaches for Human-Machin Dialog including intention understanding, reasoning and hybrid AI
• Define the system capabilities thanks to a functional, logical and value analysis, describing functions to be performed to meet the real needs of the user in the various scenarii and maximising product value for Customer
• Translate end-user needs into specifications (user centricity)

YOUR CAREER AT THALES

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competences in different areas:

• Room and attention to personal development
• Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution
• Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path
• Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group

What do we offer?

• Flexible working hours.
• Shorter working days on Fridays and during summer.
• Remote-friendly - 2/3 days a week working from home.
• Restaurant allowance and social benefits (health insurance, kindergarden).

Thales is a company committed to equal opportunities between women and men, and for this reason, we work to raise awareness and disseminate information on the subject both internally and externally.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.