Description

Location: Praha, Czechia

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 in the Czech Republic employs over 400 people from 45 different nationalities. A total of 15 teams work on projects for government agencies, banking, mobile services and the Internet Of Things (IoT) technology. At the core of our business is the development of software which we configure and embed in a multitude of different devices and form factors. These include many kinds of payment cards, SIM cards, travel passes, secure eBanking devices, authentication tokens, machine identification modules (MIM), and secure ID documents including ePassports, eID and eHealth cards, as well as eDriving licenses. Because of the international environment surrounding us every day, it comes as no surprise that English is our official corporate language.

Goal:
We are looking for a motivated intern with a passion for exploring how AI can transform software development lifecycle.
You will work closely with our development and testing teams to:
• Experiment with cutting-edge AI tools,
• Apply them to test generation, improve automation, and reporting,
• Benchmark their impact on team performance
• Propose improvements for our processes.
This internship is hands-on: you'll shadow developers and testers, try out AI models, build agents based on real project context, and document results.

Key Responsibilities:

AI for Testing

• Build AI agents to generate unit tests, functional tests, and integration tests.
• Review AI-generated test cases with teams and evaluate accuracy, coverage, and maintainability and document results.
• Support the creation/integrate AI agents using MCP servers to improve development performance and software quality.

AI for Test Management

• Prototype AI agents to generate test plans and test cases from user stories, requirements, and architecture designs.
• Experiment with AI-assisted test uploads and management in Jira.
• Evaluate the acceptance test creation using AI agents.

Process Improvement

• Shadow development and QA teams to identify opportunities where AI can improve workflows (e.g., documentation, sprint summaries, reporting).
• Propose new ways to integrate AI into daily dev/test practices.

Research & Reporting

• Document experiments and evaluations in a clear, structured way.
• Provide comparative reports on AI tools, including metrics and team feedback.
• Present findings and recommendations to the wider team.

Tools & Technologies You'll Work With

• Programming: Python (main language), others like JavaScript, Java, .NET
• Testing: Robot Framework, unit/functional test frameworks, Postman.
• AI Tools: IDE plugins (VS Code, IntelliJ), AI models, cline, MCP servers.
• Collaboration: Jira, Confluence, GitLab.

Requirements

• Knowledge of AI (how things work - basics of machine learning, agents architecture, AI agentic, etc.)
• Understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering
• General knowledge of software engineering processes and practices
• Python coding experience
• Ability to read code in other programming languages such as JavaScript, Java, .NET

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!