Career options for researchers
Overview
If Thales made the list of Clarivate’s Top 100 Global Innovators™ for the 10th time in 2023, it's all thanks to our 77,000 employees and the engineers and researchers who make up a third of the workforce. Joining this community of innovators is an opportunity to take part in ground-breaking projects of extraordinary scope and vision.
It means using your expertise to advance society and support sustainable development in an environment that's both supportive and rewarding, and interacting on a routine basis with leading subject-matter experts from an impressive array of backgrounds and disciplines.
It's also a chance to be part of a global organisation with operations in 68 countries and to choose from a unique set of career options in an extremely broad range of fields.
We talked to some of the Thales men and women who are working today to invent the technologies of tomorrow and develop the applications the world will rely on in the future.
"At Thales, you set your own career path"
- Dunlin Tan, 41, Director of Thales Research & Technology in Singapore.
Why choose between a career in scientific research, engineering or management when you can have all three?
Dunlin Tan has worked at Thales's corporate laboratory in Singapore since 2012 and explains how the Group has offered her all the career opportunities she ever wanted.
“I don’t know of any other company which has forged such close links with the academic world”
- Daniel Brooks, 29, AI research engineer.
After three years working on a doctoral thesis funded by Thales, Daniel Brooks joined the R&D department at the Group's Limours site, which specialises in radar systems and air surveillance.
He tells us how he has managed to strike the right balance between a passion for research and the need to meet industrial challenges.
"What drives me? The excitement of a new challenge and the chance to work with new technologies"
- Marie Antier, 35 ans, systems engineering lead for the drones business
First lasers, then drones and now electronic warfare systems — for Marie Antier, an engineer at the Élancourt site, Thales gives her the opportunity to work in different worlds and with a wide array of advanced technologies.
"Working at Thales is a rare opportunity to see your innovations being turned into real-world applications"
- David Nigro, 34, research engineer, underwater systems.
David Nigro has never imagined spending his whole life in a laboratory.
At Thales Underwater Systems in Manchester, he has found an ideal way to tap into the company's network of academic and industry partners in the United Kingdom and around the world.