AI R&D Algorithm Developer

Location: Cheadle, 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.

Job Title: AI Algorithm Developer

Location: Cheadle Heath, Templecombe

Employment Type: Full-time /part-time

Reports To: GSS Team leader and AI team lead

About Us: 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Research & Innovation: Stay updated with the latest research in AI and machine learning technologies relevant to our products, bringing new tools, frameworks, and methods to the team.
• AI Development: Conduct research, development and evaluation of optimum AI/ML solutions applied to Thales sonar products. To include training and fine-tuning of machine learning and deep learning models.
• Data Curation: Collect, clean, and pre-process structured and unstructured data from diverse sources to ensure high-quality inputs for model training and evaluation.
• Customer and End User Engagement: Support demonstrations, presentations and training of customers and end users to build their understanding of and trust in deployed AI solutions
• System Deployment: Work closely with system engineers, operability specialists and domain experts to integrate AI solutions into operational systems.

Skills and experience:

• Knowledge of current AI/ML research, concepts, tools and techniques is essential.

• Experience in developing AI solutions to meet defined requirements, preferably for real-time applications

• Experience in problem solving and the ability to effectively work alone and as part of a team

• Matlab experience is highly desirable.

• Experience in Python and associated machine learning libraries or equivalent knowledge is highly desirable.

• Experience of technical report writing, presentation preparation and generation and presentation/communication skills for papers, seminars, conferences etc is highly desirable.

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