Job Description

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Are you an experienced software engineer looking for your next challenge within Thales? We’re seeking talented and collaborative engineers to join our Software Solutions Engineering community, where you'll play a key role in delivering innovative, secure, and high-performing software solutions that support mission-critical capabilities.

This is an exciting opportunity to work across a variety of programmes and technologies, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to solve complex technical challenges and drive meaningful outcomes for our customers.

What We're Looking For

We're interested in candidates with a strong software engineering background and a passion for developing quality software solutions. You will bring a blend of technical expertise, problem-solving ability, and a collaborative mindset.

You will ideally have:

• A degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a
• related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Experience designing, developing, testing, and integrating software solutions in a professional environment.
• Strong knowledge of software development principles and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with one or more programming languages such as C++, C, Java, Python, or similar.
• Knowledge of software build processes, compilation techniques, and continuous integration pipelines.
• Understanding of computing platforms, operating systems, and virtualisation technologies.
• Experience working within Agile or iterative development environments.
• The ability to adapt to changing priorities and work effectively within multidisciplinary teams.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Software Solutions Engineer, you will contribute across the software development lifecycle, working closely with engineers, architects, and project teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborating within cross-functional engineering teams to develop innovative software solutions.
• Supporting requirements definition, system design, and architectural decision-making.
• Developing, integrating, and optimising software components within larger system solutions.
• Producing well-structured, maintainable, and testable code in line with engineering standards.
• Contributing to software verification, validation, and deployment activities.
• Designing and implementing scalable and performant software features.
• Supporting project planning, estimation, and delivery activities.
• Sharing knowledge and best practice to continually improve team capability and solution quality.

Desirable Experience

Whilst not essential, the following experience would be advantageous:

• Defence, Aerospace, or other highly regulated industries.
• Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems.
• Embedded software development, including firmware, device drivers, and low-level software.
• Working with hardware interfaces such as FPGAs, sensors, and communications equipment.
• Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) and bare-metal development environments.
• Performance optimisation in resource-constrained systems.
• Use of debugging and profiling tools, including logic analysers, oscilloscopes, and JTAG/SWD debuggers.
• Knowledge of Hardware Abstraction Layers (HAL), Board Support Packages (BSP), and embedded Linux environments.

Interested?

We welcome applications from colleagues with strong software engineering experience who are looking to broaden their impact, develop new skills, and contribute to some of Thales' most exciting programmes.

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At Thales, we ensure equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Read more about our benefits here.

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued for who they are and the unique strengths they bring. Discover more about our programmes, employee networks, wellbeing policies, and inclusive features here.

If this role isn’t quite right for you, we encourage you to join our talent community where your details will be shared with our recruitment teams for other potential opportunities. Join the Talent Community here.

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