Artificial Intelligence Placement

Your role

What you will be doing: Working in a research team, your focus will be on contributing to solving hard problems and creating proofs of concepts rather than implementing or optimizing existing solutions. You will work alongside highly educated scientists (often PhD level) with industrial experience, as well as collaborating with other parts of the business, and academic and other industry partners. Airbus offers you some exciting tasks:

• Understand the basic concepts of decision-making algorithms and customer use cases.
• Carry on a comprehensive literature review and survey on recent explainability methods for decision-making algorithms.
• Develop demonstrators in line with customer expectations integrating the latest work developed on explainability of decision-making for concept(s) and algorithm(s) for evaluation.
• Assess the performance of the achieved concept and algorithm on use-case data.

About you

Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate the following:

• Studying towards a degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or equivalent
• Experience in Python programming and use of common packages like pandas, matplotlib, plotly, networkx, etc.
• Knowledge of decision-making algorithms
• Ability to summarize findings in technical reports
• Fluency in English
• You are a good team player, have excellent communication skills, and can work independently

Compensation & benefits

Airbus offers a range of generous remuneration and benefit schemes tailored for all its employees around the world. This includes:

• Salary of £21,900
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working
• Half day Fridays
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Health and wellness programmes
• Employee development and training opportunities
• And many more depending on where you are located

Training & development

During your placement you will gain insight into the research on artificial intelligence (and data science) algorithms and solutions for challenges across all Airbus divisions within an international and multidisciplinary team, working together across multiple countries. You will gain experience in working with AI frameworks and workflows, as well as cloud computing, web services, etc. Training and onboarding will be provided, but you find it easier to join if you have some understanding of or experience with Python; TensorFlow; PyTorch; Keras; and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Career progression

The placements give you crucial industry experience whilst allowing you to put your theoretical knowledge into practice. By making the most of the skills and experience you gain, you can improve your chances of landing your ideal job in the global graduate programme.

How to apply

Application process:

• Easy online application
• Make sure you fulfill all requirements
• Go through assessment sessions

The placements are open to Undergraduates only. Therefore candidates must be an undergraduate for the whole duration of the placement. Please inform your graduation date on your application. Please ensure you include your CV and a cover letter for your application to be considered.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• airbus.com/en/careers
• airbus.com/en/careers/students-and-graduates/interns/uk-industry-placement
• airbus.com/en/careers/students-and-graduates/interns
• youtube.com/@airbus