Ai Researcher Degree Apprenticeship - Level 6 Machine Learning
Thales · South East · RH10 9HA
About the role
Turn your curiosity into a career with our AI Researcher Degree Apprenticeship! 🚀 If you're buzzing about artificial intelligence, ready to dive deep, and want a programme that mixes awesome academic learning with real-world experience, we want to hear from you!
✨ What's in it for you? ✨
- Get Paid While You Learn: Earn a salary 💸 while studying for your degree.
- Real-World Experience: Get hands-on in a cutting-edge AI and engineering environment. 🧠
- Top-Notch Training: Receive specialised job training and development. 📈
- Level 6 Qualification: Achieve a recognised and respected qualification. 🎓
- Secure Your Future: Land a permanent role from day one. 🤝
- Fees Covered: Your tuition fees are fully paid. 💯
About the Role:
As an AI Researcher Apprentice, you'll build the technical smarts, analytical skills, and professional chops to tackle complex problems and push the boundaries of responsible AI. You'll work with brilliant AI researchers and engineers on live projects, turning questions into solid findings, prototypes, and recommendations.
Your Mission Could Include:
- Scouring and summarising technical papers. 📚
- Designing cool experiments and setting clear success metrics. 📊
- Getting data ready and building proof-of-concept ML models. 💻
- Analysing results, spotting limitations, and understanding bias. 🤔
- Documenting your methods and sharing your findings through reports and demos. 📝
- Teaming up with experts on real research challenges.
What You'll Master:
- Professional research behaviours, teamwork, and industry best practices.
- Research methods, literature reviews, and hypothesis building.
- Statistics, experimental design, and reproducible analysis.
- Machine learning principles, algorithms, and model evaluation.
- Programming, data handling, and rapid prototyping.
- Critically assessing evidence, uncertainty, and ethical considerations.
- Responsible AI, security, privacy, safety, and ethics.
- Clear technical writing and communicating your research.
Your Degree Apprenticeship Journey:
You'll be working towards a Level 6 Machine Learning qualification with Corndel, gaining the skills to build and use AI responsibly in an engineering setting. Our virtual learning model combines:
- Live online lectures 🖥️
- Online learning resources 📖
- Self-directed learning activities 💡
Entry Requirements:
- A Levels: Three A Levels, with a Grade B or above in Maths and at least one other relevant subject (Physics, Computer Science, Software, ICT).
- OR: A Level 4/5 apprenticeship in a relevant field.
- GCSEs: Minimum of five GCSEs at Grade 4/C or above, including English Language and Mathematics.
- Note: Computer Science graduates are not eligible due to funding rules.
Perks & Benefits:
- Competitive Salary: £24,000 per year 🤑
- Performance-related pay uplifts 🚀
- Holiday: 201 hours per year (plus company day & bank holidays) 🏖️
- Contributory Company Pension 🏦
- Health Care Cash Plan 🩹
- Hybrid/Flexible working options 🏡
- Employee Assistance Programme 🤗
- Learning & Development Support 📚
- Employee Discounts & Wellbeing Initiatives ✨
- Life Cover 🛡️
- 80 Hours Volunteering per year (first two years) 💖
Ready to Apply?
1. Apply Online: Submit your application to register your interest. You only need to register for one role initially.
2. Upload Your CV: Get your CV ready.
3. Check Your Emails: Look out for an invitation to apply from recruiting@jobalerts.thalesgroup.com.
4. Complete Your Application: Follow the link to fill in your full application. You can apply for your primary role and up to 3 additional roles.
5. Online Tests: Complete assessments to see if you're a good fit.
6. Virtual Assessment Centre: If you progress, you'll join a virtual assessment centre with group exercises and interviews.
7. Job Offer: Successful candidates will receive a job offer! 🎉
Important Dates:
- Applications Close: 11:59 PM, Wednesday 17 February 2027. Apply early! Roles can close sooner if we get lots of applications. 🏃💨
- Assessment Centres: February - May 2027.
- Induction Week: Monday 6 September - Friday 10 September 2027.
Security is Key: All roles require successful completion of UK Government security checks. You'll typically need to have lived in the UK for the last five years to be eligible for Security Clearance (SC).
About Thales:
Thales is an equal opportunities employer, celebrating diversity and inclusion! 🌟
Click 'Apply' to start your journey!
Key responsibilities
- Reviewing technical literature and summarising relevant methods and evidence
- Designing controlled experiments and defining clear evaluation criteria
- Preparing data and developing proof-of-concept machine learning models
- Analysing results, limitations, uncertainty and potential sources of bias
- Documenting methods and communicating findings through reports, demonstrations and reviews