Innovation & Applied AI Engineer

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billions of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Position Summary

Thales’ Innovation Team in Canada is looking for a talented engineer with a great appetite to solve complex challenges, applying software engineering to critical AI projects. The team aims to design and implement cutting-edge solutions by incorporating safe, robust, trustworthy, and certifiable AI capabilities.

Essential Functions

An Innovation and Applied AI Engineer is responsible for discovering, developing and integrating innovative methodologies to address complex challenges in these fields and to translate related concepts into Thales solutions. He/she proves their viability through the implementation of Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and guides their maturity growth through prototypes and demonstrators that will in turn illustrate and enable their full business potential.

AI/Innovation Engineer Key Responsibilities:

• Research and develop innovative solutions to validate and verify the robustness of AI and diverse technologies for real applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to translate research advances into deployable prototypes and production-ready systems.
• Work on problems of diverse scope to support the deployment of reliable and certifiable AI models.
• Contribute to the innovation ecosystem by proposing new innovation ideas and keeping an active technology watch.
• Intellectual property: systematic approach to protecting our intellectual property through patents
• Communication: knowledge sharing with other teams, suggest, collect, and synthesize system requirements from stakeholders and contribute to shaping effective research and innovation roadmaps.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor or master’s degree in computer science
• 2 to 5 years of experience in Software Development
• Solid theoretical knowledge and understanding of AI fundamentals.
• Solid Skills:
• front-end and back-end software development (TypeScript, Golang, NodeJs, C#, etc. ...)
• Cloud ecosystem and architecture (Docker, Google Cloud, etc.....)
• Critical thinker with ability to communicating scientific work in a clear and effective manner.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to think creatively and strategically.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for effective collaboration and dissemination of research.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written).
• This position requires a good knowledge of English for writing technical documents, interacting with, supporting, and/or providing services to international clients, employees, and/or partners, as well as foreign government authorities who do not speak French.

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding on these domains:
• design thinking
• Innovation
• UX
• Confidential computing
• Next generation Digital Identities
• Workload protection

Physical Demands

• Extended periods of computer work

Special Position Requirements

• Travel: Occasional international travel required to work with customers and partners.

Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following:

• Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, Cancer Care Program, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program.
• Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.
• Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.
• Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability.
• Employee Discounts on home, auto, and gym membership.

Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process. Applicants selected for an interview who require accommodation are asked to advise accordingly upon the invitation for an interview. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.

About Thales

In a world that is increasingly fast moving, unpredictable – and full of opportunities, trust is essential for societies to flourish. Trust in our institutions. Trust in our systems. Trust in technology. Trust in each other.

And the people we all rely on to make the world go round, they rely on Thales. They come to us with big ambitions: to make life better, to keep us safer.

From the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace, we help our customers navigate uncertainty with confidence and new frontiers with optimism. Thinking smarter and acting faster - mastering ever greater complexity and every decisive moment along the way.

We collaborate to architect and deliver high technology solutions that are both imaginative and resilient, human-centered and sustainable. So that together we can harness the extraordinary power of technology to build a future we can all trust.

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