Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom
Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.
Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

You will be responsible for applying detailed mathematical and analytical skills and expertise in support of sonar and related subjects, study contracts and self-funded research and development activities providing advice and progress reports to management as required on technical aspects and produce reports, proposals and papers for technical and scientific conferences.

You will also be responsible for observing and adopting appropriate codes of practice and system engineering, algorithm or modelling and simulation development processes as necessary.

• Work as part of the senior technical team to set the direction for future development including building links to wider Thales teams (within export/security limits), academic partners and collaborators (from SMEs to larger partners).
• Lead innovation activities in delegated areas to develop concepts, solutions and ideas to feed into Thales UK’s growing research & development programme.
• Technically lead the production and review of reports, presentations and scientific papers to demonstrate and promote new innovation internally and externally.
• Undertake a wide variety of tasks, including the development of sonar processing algorithms, development of AI solutions, autonomy, UW Communications, data fusion and tracking algorithms as well as research studies, performance prediction/modelling/synthetic environments and trials planning/execution/analysis.
• Technically lead and contribute to specific tasks of a detailed mathematical or analytical research nature associated with the development of signal & data processing algorithms.