Mobile Security Software Engineer Intern

Location: SINGAPORE, Singapore

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

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.

Thales Singapore Engineering Competence Centre (ECC) is a well-established R&D and engineering centre serving major customers worldwide in Digital Identity and Security domains ranging from mobile connectivity, IoT, banking & payment to government solutions.

You will be working with a group of developers on tasks related to mobile security libraries, which is used by mobile teams in the different business lines. These SDKs are important to ensure that the security of the various industrial mobile applications has lower risks of being compromised.

Responsibilities:

• Perform testing and/or coding on mobile security libraries (requires coding skills) with experienced developers
• Brainstorm and participate in various process improvement discussions, and implement improvement plans to make validation/overall process more efficient and streamlined
• Participate in, and understand the complete project software lifecycle (i.e. work on development, testing, documentation and release in an agile process)
• Expose and learn mobile security domain
• Expose to different programming languages/ technologies depending on the tasks assigned

Requirements:

• Interest in mobile and/ or mobile security domain
• Strong problem solving skills and willingness to learn new knowledge
• Proficient in one or more of the following: Java, Android, Objective C, C (preferred)
• Flexible and is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Able to adapt to working on different topics/technologies
• Team player, independent, motivated, proactive, good problem solver, energetic and possess good analytical skills
• Comfortable working both alone or as a team with a mentor guidance, if required
• Commitment: Able to commit on a full-time basis for ideally 6 months (or a minimum of 5 months) OR part-time basis (minimum 3 days/week) but for an extended period

Learning Outcomes:

• Experience and learn about the complete industrial software lifecycle and apply the scrum (agile) methodology
• Exposure to the mobile security domain and on the different mobile platforms (i.e. iOS, Android and Windows).
• An opportunity to work with experienced developers to learn proper engineering skills and software lifecycle, and exposure to various day-to-day challenges in the real software industry

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!