Internship as Defense System Engineer
Pubblicato il 06-09-2026 - Thales in Firenze
Location: Firenze, Italy
In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.
Sesto Fiorentino is the Headquarter of Thales Italia. It hosts two Domains: Ground Transportation Systems (GTS) and Security (SIX). The activity of GTS domain: Security systems, telecommunications, supervision, control & management information and signalling solutions for trains, trams and metros Regarding railway solutions, Thales is the homologated supplier of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana for Axel Counters, Tunnel Security, Energy Saving, SCADA systems and Asset Management. Italy is Thales Group’s competence centre for tramway signalling solutions. The activity of SIX domain: mission critical solutions and applications for assets and citizens security (supervision, control and information management systems) as well as cybersecurity.
Thales offers solutions to protect the information systems and critical data of its civilian and military customers and helps its customers to detect and prevent cyberattacks by devising secure architectures from the design stage, overseeing these architectures and ensures that they are kept in secure working order. Italy is Thales Group’s competence centre for Airport security and operations management solutions.
JOB OBJECTIVE
To gain experience in the design and engineering of complex communication and security systems for defence applications, supporting bids and projects with a focus on modular, interoperable architectures and Design-to-Cost principles.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
The candidate will join the System Engineering Team to develop own skills in R&D; & Customer contexts, particularly for Defense business. Hereafter the main activities foreseen:
Design of Modular Hardware Architectures for