Thales is offering a hybrid Level 6 AI Engineer apprenticeship in Crawley, United Kingdom, starting 6 September 2027. The programme combines academic study with hands-on experience in AI and engineering, with a salary of £24,000 per annum and the potential to secure a permanent role from the outset. The apprenticeship leads to a Level 6 qualification through QA and includes the Microsoft certified Azure AI Engineer Associate credential, and is delivered via a virtual learning model with live lectures, online resources and self-directed study.

As an AI Engineer Apprentice, you will develop the technical knowledge, practical skills and professional behaviours needed to design, build, test and deploy dependable AI-enabled solutions. You will work on live projects across the machine learning lifecycle, collaborating with software, data, systems and domain specialists to deliver secure, maintainable solutions. Responsibilities may include data preparation, building and evaluating ML models, writing clean, tested code, supporting deployment and monitoring, contributing to technical reviews, and collaborating with experienced engineers and researchers.

What you will learn includes professional engineering behaviours, programming, version control, automated testing, data preparation and quality techniques, ML methods, deployment patterns, MLOps, monitoring and lifecycle management, cloud tools, responsible AI, security, privacy, safety and regulatory considerations, and structured problem solving.

Entry requirements include three A Levels with Maths at grade B or above and

Thales is offering a hybrid Level 6 AI Engineer apprenticeship in Crawley, United Kingdom, starting 6 September 2027. The programme combines academic study with hands-on experience in AI and engineering, with a salary of £24,000 per annum and the potential to secure a permanent role from the outset. The apprenticeship leads to a Level 6 qualification through QA and includes the Microsoft certified Azure AI Engineer Associate credential, and is delivered via a virtual learning model with live lectures, online resources and self-directed study.

As an AI Engineer Apprentice, you will develop the technical knowledge, practical skills and professional behaviours needed to design, build, test and deploy dependable AI-enabled solutions. You will work on live projects across the machine learning lifecycle, collaborating with software, data, systems and domain specialists to deliver secure, maintainable solutions. Responsibilities may include data preparation, building and evaluating ML models, writing clean, tested code, supporting deployment and monitoring, contributing to technical reviews, and collaborating with experienced engineers and researchers.

What you will learn includes professional engineering behaviours, programming, version control, automated testing, data preparation and quality techniques, ML methods, deployment patterns, MLOps, monitoring and lifecycle management, cloud tools, responsible AI, security, privacy, safety and regulatory considerations, and structured problem solving.

Entry requirements include three A Levels with Maths at grade B or above and