Engineering Industrial Placement (Applied Intelligence)

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Applied Intelligence – Engineering Industrial Placement

There’s no need to wait until you graduate to start your career in software engineering. We offer 1 year Industrial Placements across our London, Gloucester and Leeds sites.

The programme offers valuable industry experience, enabling you to develop lifelong skills and a broad understanding of the work we do. Upon successful completion of your placement year, you could receive a conditional offer to join BAE Systems as a Graduate and further your career (subject to performance and availability of suitable roles) without the need to reapply.

Your Learning and Development

As an Engineering Industrial Placement student, you will work as a part of a project team, alongside skilled and experienced individuals who are motivated to train and coach you on the day-to-day skills required to work closely with our customers, both internal and external. You will learn the tools, techniques and approaches used by engineering professionals and apply them in a controlled environment to ensure projects are delivered on time, to quality and to budget.

Industrial Placement student will support their team to ensure that engineering practices are followed on all aspects of project definition and delivery.

This role will also include developing an understanding of the core values, organisational structure and working practices of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence.

What you'll need

As an Industrial Placement student, we expect you to be ready to tackle (and enjoy!) programming tasks from the outset, but we will take the time to mentor you through smaller packages of work and enhancements to our product range. You will work primarily in Java or C++ however we always look for the best framework for the job; some of our developments use c# .net and html5 technologies.

For our Software Engineering Industrial Placement role, you must be on course for at least a 2:2 Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths subject.

About BAE Systems

Here at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, we are committed to helping governments, organisations and society navigate digital threats and opportunities. Whether it’s leveraging data to digitally transform operations or securing organisations and nations from cyber threats, we combine our unrivalled security and engineering heritage to help our clients navigate the data-reliant digital landscape.

As the cyber and intelligence arm of BAE Systems, we employ over 3,500 people across 15 countries in North America, APAC, Europe and the Middle East. With our distinguished heritage, we relish the opportunity to transform digital and data practices, defence, intelligence, security and society for government agencies, law enforcement, financial services, and critical infrastructure.

How to apply

We ask all candidates to apply online with a CV. If progressed following your online application, you will be invited to undertake a virtual assessment involving gamified assessment challenges and recorded questions. If you are successful, you’ll be invited to either a virtual or face-to-face interview.

If you are successful you will commence your Industrial Placement in June 2022.

Individuals who are due to graduate prior to the commencement dates of our undergraduate programmes are not eligible to apply and should instead consider applying for one of our graduate offerings

We are an inclusive employer and strive to recruit, retain and inspire the best people from the widest pool of talent. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss any adjustments or arrangements, as required, to support your application. Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.