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Senior AI Engineer

Thales is hiring a Senior AI Engineer in Bucharest, Romania. Level rates it ; you can apply on Thales.

Level's read on this job

  • On Level's scale, this AI engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include RAG and AI agents.
  • Level classifies it as a senior role.
  • Level lists 3,600+ other open roles at Thales.
  • The role was posted in the last few days.

AI in this role

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Location: Bucharest, Romania

We are seeking an experienced agentic AI Engineer able to deliver a training programs for international engineering clients.

The primary goal is to guide the client’s technical teams through production-grade generative AI workflows. Using pre-defined enterprise use cases, the trainer will deliver interactive presentations and lead hands-on lab exercises hosted on a on-premises cloud environment.


Required Qualifications & Experience

• AI & LLM Systems Expertise: Deep, hands-on development experience building production applications with RAG architectures, LLM agents, and tool integration (including MCP standards).

• Environment Provisioning: Ability to set up and manage cloud-based sandbox environments (e.g., cloud VMs, containerized JupyterHubs, or managed platforms) accessible without corporate network setups.

• Communication: Strong verbal and written technical communication skills in English.


Travel is required.


Would be a plus:

• Technical Training Experience or proven record of delivering technical sessions to enterprise audiences.

• Containerization for AI

• Storage usage for AI

• Network usage for AI

• Pipeline design

At Thales, we’re committed to fostering a workplace where respect, trust, collaboration, and passion drive everything we do. Here, you’ll feel empowered to bring your best self, thrive in a supportive culture, and love the work you do. Join us, and be part of a team reimagining technology to create solutions that truly make a difference – for a safer, greener, and more inclusive world.

Thales is a global technology leader trusted by governments, institutions, and enterprises to tackle their most demanding challenges. From quantum applications and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity and 6G innovation, our solutions empower critical decisions rooted in human intelligence. Operating at the forefront of defence and security, aerospace and space, cybersecurity and digital identity, we’re driven by a mission to build a future we can all trust.

In Romania, we are advancing innovation through software engineering, research and development, delivering solutions in key markets in which Thales Group operates. Our engineers design, develop and integrate solutions that impact global industries – from fully operational systems and subsystems for naval warfare and maritime security operations, to air traffic management systems, satellite-based solutions, tactical indoor simulations, identity and biometric technologies and more.

How we rate this

Senior AI Engineer at Thales rates 6 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

RAGAI agents

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Pay

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$183k

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Questions you could be asked

  1. How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
  2. How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: RAG and AI agents. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
  • Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.

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