Security Research Engineer

Location:

Reading, United Kingdom.
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.

Location:
Reading

Hours of work: 37 Hrs/Week (Monday-Friday) – Minimum 3 days at office

Do you have an inquisitive and technical problem‑solving mind? Are you a good communicator and a team player? Would you like to work in a supportive environment? Got your interest, then look no further…

We have an exciting opportunity in our Research, Technology and Innovation business. Due to a rapid period of growth we are looking to add a Security Research Engineer to the team. You will work in an applied research environment to investigate and develop new technologies and concepts across a wide range of Thales’s application areas. The type of activities will include:

• Fundamental feasibility studies and state‑of‑the‑art surveys
• Development of proof of concept demonstrators using appropriate software and hardware implementations
• Work within a research team to invent and explore new concepts and technologies and demonstrate their applicability to the Thales businesses.

The focus of this role is on information security at system level, rather than the security of the development process or IT environments. The systems are typically safety or security critical in nature (requiring high assurance) and involving distributed IoT / Edge platforms.

• 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.

The successful candidate should have the following experience:

• 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

Additionally, the successful candidate should have experience in some of the following:

• 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…