Algorithm, Simulation and Performance Engineer - FH/

Building a future of trust together

Thales is a global high-tech leader specializing in three business sectors: Defense & Security, Aerospace & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

• Success driven by our technological excellence, your experience, and our shared ambition
• An attractive compensation package
• Continuous skills development: training programs, internal academies, and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

We provide and support systems for air traffic management and protection. We work with passion in a modern architectural framework, striving to push the boundaries of technology in our key sectors. South of Paris, our site is easily accessible by public transport.

Your activity may be distributed as follows:

• Project: Contribution to the development of algorithmic solutions for defense, including studies, modeling, prototyping, simulation, and performance validation;
• Innovation: Participation in innovation work and contribution to the valorization of R&T results;
• Monitoring: Analysis of the scientific and technological state of the art, detection of emerging trends, and realization of benchmarks to keep the company at the forefront of innovation.

Main responsibilities:

• Design and develop advanced algorithms related to defense systems;
• Propose innovative solutions to complex problems: detection, classification, data fusion, prediction, optimization, etc.;
• Participate in algorithm validation through simulation and performance analysis;
• Collaborate with various internal and external stakeholders (business teams, industrial partners, research laboratories);
• Ensure technological watch on algorithms, AI, and defense systems.

Your profile

You are a graduate of an engineering school or hold a doctorate in computer science, applied mathematics, automation, or an equivalent field.

With a successful first experience in designing algorithmic solutions and validating performance simulations, you have good knowledge of numerical methods, signal processing, or automation. You are capable of proposing relevant modeling to address a physical simulation problem.

You are recognized for your expertise in artificial intelligence and numerical methods.

Ideally, you have knowledge of specific issues in the defense sector (radar and optronic sensors, communication systems, tactical link L16, command and control systems, defense networks, missile fire control, etc.).

Your creativity, rigor, autonomy, and appetite for innovation are recognized.

Very good level of English, both written and spoken.

The position may require access to information related to national defense secrecy; the selected person will be subject to a security clearance procedure, in accordance with the provisions of articles R.2311-1 et seq. of the Defense Code and IGI 1300 SGDSN/PSE of August 9, 2021.