Junior Security Research Engineer

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In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible. 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.

• Carry out fundamental feasibility studies and state‑of‑the‑art surveys
• Develop proof of concept demonstrators using appropriate software and hardware implementations
• Define and deliver experimentation and evaluation of security techniques against use case constraints
• Work within a group of other research staff, as well as being self‑motivated to work individually, and be flexible to adapt into new research areas and ways of working.
• Effective Team Member, well‑motivated and enthusiastic.
• Show initiative in the efficient and correct execution of the project and take responsibility for own project work.
• Innovate in developing solutions and meet team and individual objectives.
• Maintain professional and technical skills and be willing to learn new skills.
• Provide accurate estimates for own work and deliver it within budget.
• Follow processes and procedures as defined by the Project Management Plan.
• Presentation of technical information at reviews.
• Technical liaison with customer representatives to transfer technology.

• Broad grounding in the fundamentals of information security from university courses or industrial experience.
• Understanding of experimental/practical work on security, with demonstrated ability to develop and test proof‑of‑concept implementations in software and/or hardware

• Cryptography
• Security solution design and implementation
• Security risk management and/or threat modelling approaches
• Security architecture
• Security assurance
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques and methodologies
• MATLAB, Mathematica or other computer algebra system
• Algorithm development
• Embedded programming

• The successful candidate will typically have some experience in a research or advanced development environment role and have a good awareness of the Thales businesses, structure, governance and processes.
• We also expect candidates to be proficient in the use of standard PC‑based office tools. We currently use Microsoft tools:
  Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project & Visio

• Because of the advanced nature of our work, the successful candidate will typically have an honours degree (minimum 2.1), a master's degree, or a PhD in any of the following disciplines:
• Cybersecurity/ Information security/ Computer Science or relevant ones.

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment.

If approved by the MOD, a dual national from a Non‑ITAR country may be considered. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance‑ United Kingdom Security Vetting ‑  (). To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have…