Location: SINGAPORE, Singapore
Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.
Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.
ABOUT
Were inventing the future, right here, right now, at Thales. We design the critical security solutions of tomorrow by combining the curiosity to explore, the intelligence to question and the vision to create. Together we solve complicated problems by combining our experience in the market with our leading research and development capabilities.
Be part of revolutionising our skies for the future of aerospace. A future where all modes of aircrafts piloted or unpiloted, civilian or military move around our skies safer, more efficiently and sustainably for a greener and more harmonised airspace.
OUR CULTURE: YOUR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Joining Thales means joining a worldwide and well establish company (85 000 headcounts and growing) and navigate your career in the vast different path available.
Joining our program is joining an environment where you can discover engineering best practices to deliver safety critical systems.
Joining the software community and our pillars around Agile and DevSecOps, means being on the critical path of our business challenges, and therefore upskilling our talent is a priority.
ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY
You will be a member of the software squad which maintains TopSKY ATC One products, the current ATM system used operationally by a wide variety of global customers. As such, you will be supporting the program by analysing/fixing PCRs, analysing/implementing ECRs within your software team/squad. Additionally, you will be tasked to improving the resilience of given test frameworks.
You are expected to participate in technical communities of practices (e.g., Community of Practices, Guilds) participating actively to share and build knowledge collectively; potentially leading these communities to improve the engineering processes and competencies in the ATM and digital domains.
KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Software Engineer, you are accountable for:
Designing and delivering software to meet requirements including architecture, design, reuse, development, integration and verification.
Defining and tailoring the software engineering environment and the process, practices and tools applicable to the project
Ensuring that the designed solution is developed according to design, schedule, cost and quality expectations.
Identifying risks, and proposing effective solutions; executing mitigation actions and reporting on outcomes and residual risks
Analyzing performance and looking for optimization opportunities on various workloads spanning from performance tuning on mid to large real-world applications
Investigating performance bottlenecks across the entire software stack from the application down to the OS and CPU levels.
Making tools and infrastructure to facilitate and accelerate performance analysis.
Writing benchmarks to demonstrate and estimate the performance impact of suggested optimizations
Owns the knowledge and conducts regular knowledge sharing sessions on best practices (e.g., Java coding practices, JVM deployment options)
KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:
Qualifications
Relevant bachelors degree or Master Degree
Technical skills
Must-have
Experience in performance analysis at either application (i.e., Apps that run on JVMs) or platform level (i.e., JVM)
Good knowledge of performance analysis methodology, profiling approaches, tools and automation.
Good understanding of the software stack from the application down to the OS and CPU levels.
Language: working knowledge of Java Core, Junit.
IDE/CICD Tools: GIT, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Eclipse, JIRA
Knowledge of formal software engineering process throughout lifecycle
writing & reviewing design, requirements, tests and code
DevOps culture and CICD methodologies
Nice-to-have
Language: any others like ADA, C++98/11
Experience in performance analysis on the Java stack
Experience with Java specific profiling tools like JFR/JMC, AsyncProfiler
Air Traffic Management domain knowledge
Experience in software development in a safety-critical environment
Other
Either one of the following options to be presented: (a) able to travel to Melbourne, Australia for a 6-8 week period for a one-off training session; (b) OTJ training in Singapore.
At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!
