2025 Sonar Algorithms Apprentice

Join us as a Sonar Algorithms Apprentice where you'll have the opportunity to enhance your skills in designing the signal processing and AI algorithms that power the world's leading sonar systems. You will collaborate with a diverse team of experts to create complex systems for our customers.

Role

As a Sonar Algorithms Apprentice, you will experience and develop crucial skills in the following areas:

  • Problem-solving methods and approaches
  • Effective communication skills in both writing reports and giving presentations
  • Knowledge and application of the key digital technologies such as data science or AI/ML
  • Signal processing (such as audio, image, video processing) and information processing (raw data or structured data)
  • Effective algorithm design and implementations, and importance of verification and validation
  • An understanding of foundational concepts in mathematics and physics that apply to underwater acoustic systems
  • Conduct high level of systems analysis with supporting application of science and mathematics
  • Scientific and numerical programming and scripting languages (e.g. MATLAB, Python)

Training

  • As a Sonar Algorithms Apprentice, you will enrol onto the Level 6 Digital and Technology Solutions Degree Apprenticeship at Warwick University, following the Data Engineer specialism pathway
  • This is a 4 year degree level programme, whereby you will attend campus for 6 weeks per academic year. The rest of the time you will be working in the Thales UK business, applying what you have learnt in a real world context
  • By the end of the apprenticeship you will have achieved a BSc in Digital and Technology Solutions, plus the Level 6 apprenticeship qualification
  • At the end of the programme you will move into a permanent role within the engineering function
Apprenticeship Standard
Digital and technology solutions professional (level 6)
Training Provider
THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Working Week
Monday - Friday, Shifts to be confirmed by manager.
Expected Duration
4 Years
Positions Available
2
Closing Date
Sunday, 16th February 2025
Start Date
Monday, 1st September 2025

Desired Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Problem solving skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 including Maths and English GCSE or equivalent, grade A-C or 9-4 (Essential)
  • Maths and one further STEM subject A Level or equivalent, grade AAA-BBB min 112 UCAS points (Essential)

About the Employer

THALES UK LIMITED
Together, we create the ingenious technological systems and innovations that impact and improve people's lives every single day. Even if you haven't heard the name Thales before, you've definitely benefited from our inventiveness. We reinvest 20% of our sales in Research & Development in the UK. Together we supply invention across 4 core areas: Aerospace, Space, Defence and Security, Digital Identity and Security.
Company
THALES UK LIMITED
Location
Ocean House, Throop Road, Templecombe, England
Employment Type
Degree Apprenticeship
Salary
£22,500 a year
Posted
Company
THALES UK LIMITED
Location
Ocean House, Throop Road, Templecombe, England
Employment Type
Degree Apprenticeship
Salary
£22,500 a year
Posted