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Since 1988, ALTEN has supported its clients’ development strategies in the fields of innovation, R&D, and technological information systems. With €4.1 billion in revenue, 57,400 employees including 51,000 engineers serving over 6,500 clients and operating in more than 30 countries, the Group has established itself as the preferred technological partner for major industrial corporations.

This leadership is built on three foundational pillars: an engineering culture rooted in creativity and innovation, continuous development of human capital, and sustainable growth driven by rigorous management. ALTEN is not merely a service provider; the Group positions itself as a committed partner in its clients’ technological success, contributing to their most strategic projects.

Its dual expertise in Engineering (70%) and IT Services (30%), combined with a unique offshore delivery capability boasting over 10,000 consultants across 35 global centres enables the Group to address the most complex challenges by blending client proximity, technical expertise, and operational agility.

• €4.1 billion annual revenue (34.6% in France, the rest internationally).
• 57,400 employees (51,000 engineers, ~88% of the workforce).
• 6,500+ clients.
• Presence in 30+ countries.
• 100+ internal research and innovation projects (70% AI-based).
• 11 ALTEN Labs worldwide.
• 36% of R&D dedicated to sustainable innovation in 2025.

 ALTEN Group 2025 Annual Results.

From aerospace to energy, including life sciences and IT services, ALTEN deploys its expertise across 12 key sectors. Each sector reflects its commitment to designing customised engineering and technology solutions to address its clients’ industrial, societal, and environmental challenges.

ALTEN works with leading players in Aerospace, Defence, Naval & Security, Automotive, Rail & Mobility, Energy & Environment, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Industrial & Electronic Equipment, Telecoms, Banking, Finance & Insurance, Retail & Services, and Public & Government Services.

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ALTEN is committed to creating an environment where cultural diversity and each individual’s unique skills are valued. By fostering cross-border collaboration and global professional development, we build an ecosystem where every talent actively contributes to shaping an innovative and sustainable future.

This approach is founded on three core pillars: an engineering culture rooted in creativity and innovation, continuous development of human capital, and sustainable growth driven by rigorous management. It is this combination that makes ALTEN a financially robust company, true to its commitments and recognised as a trusted partner by its clients.

A Home for Engineers

Proud to be the “House of Engineers,” ALTEN invests in knowledge sharing and the professional development of its talent to drive innovation. The Group offers its employees a comprehensive mobility framework, whether functional or geographical. ALTEN provides pathways at all levels, as well as career progression within its four streams: Specialist, Project Management, Business Management, and Support Functions. International opportunities are also accessible within our global entities. By uniting their strengths and transcending borders, our employees embody the ALTEN model, where everyone can thrive professionally. Finally, our dynamic and inclusive human resources management promotes diverse career paths and skill development to build personalised professional trajectories.

Ethics and Responsibility as a Compass

ALTEN places ethics at the heart of its activities. The Group is committed to conducting its business in strict compliance with national and international laws and regulations, making compliance a priority across all its entities. This commitment is reflected in its strengthened governance, with a Board of Directors where half of the members are women, and a Gender Equality Index score of 89 out of 100.

A Sincere and Measurable CSR Commitment

As a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact since 2010, ALTEN embeds its strategy in a continuous improvement approach, aligned with the 2030 Agenda. This commitment is reflected in tangible results: an EcoVadis score of 85 out of 100 (top 1% in the sector), a CDP rating at level B, and a 60% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to 2019. For ALTEN, economic performance and social responsibility are not opposing forces; they reinforce each other.

Beyond the numbers, it is an ambition that guides the Group daily: to think about the future in the present and build tomorrow’s world today.

ALTEN stands out from other IT services companies through its unique approach, combining:

• Agility: Blending the reactivity of a start-up with the expertise of a global leader, ALTEN immerses itself in innovative projects (AI, aerospace, energy transition).
• Focus on Talent: Tailored training, mentoring, and internal mobility to accelerate careers and align personal aspirations with the Group’s ambitions.
• Collaborative Innovation: 11 ALTEN Labs and industrial/academic partnerships to co-create sustainable solutions, recognised with awards (e.g., 2025 ESN & ICT Trophies).
• Societal Impact: Transforming technological challenges into shared opportunities, with a responsible and inclusive vision.

Unlike other IT services companies, ALTEN focuses on people, agility, and open innovation to shape the engineering of tomorro

Absolutely, it’s at the core of the Group’s strategy. At ALTEN, innovation is not just a marketing claim; it’s a structured approach, driven by a network of 11 innovation labs worldwide, 100+ internal research projects (70% AI-based), and 36% of R&D dedicated to sustainable development.

Artificial Intelligence, a strategic imperative. Through its A³ (AI AT ALTEN) programme, the Group has accelerated the deployment of AI across its operations and client projects since 2024. Today, 65% of employees have been trained in AI, while 25% of technology projects and 75% of tenders now integrate AI tools. Two of the Group’s entities are entirely dedicated to AI and are ISO 42001 certified. ALTEN has also forged strategic partnerships with Mistral AI, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and AWS, mobilising over 5,000 Data and AI experts to support clients in this transformation. AI accelerators are being deployed at the heart of the most strategic projects, embedding agentic capabilities into development environments.

Industry 4.0 and 5.0: Humans at the heart of tomorrow’s production. Through its Smart Factory 4.0 programme, ALTEN is reinventing industrial production by placing humans at its core. Leveraging IoT, 5G, digital twins, collaborative robotics, augmented reality, and additive manufacturing, the Group develops concrete solutions for sustainable reindustrialisation, predictive maintenance, and augmented work environments. The goal is clear: to create factories where technology aligns with human-centric values and where decarbonisation of production systems becomes the new standard.

Energy transition: A long-term commitment. ALTEN is a key player in the energy transition, working on large-scale strategic projects, including the EPR2 nuclear programme, extending the operational life of France’s nuclear fleet, developing Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), and connecting offshore wind farms. With the acquisition of Worldgrid in late 2024 and its subsidiary Anotech, the Group now covers the entire energy value chain, from Nuclear New Build to smart distribution, combining engineering, digital solutions, and end-to-end operational expertise.

These three areas reflect a deep conviction at ALTEN: technological innovation and environmental responsibility are inseparable in addressing tomorrow’s challenges. This is the essence of the Group’s ambition, to shape the future in the present.

At ALTEN, innovation is based on a simple belief: combining industry expertise and technology to address clients’ challenges concretely. Far more than a strategic position, it’s how the Group builds tomorrow’s world today.

Since their creation in 2016, the 11 ALTEN Labs worldwide embody the Group’s innovative DNA. Over 100 research projects are conducted annually by consultants of all experience levels, exploring emerging technologies such as AI, Big Data, virtual and augmented reality, digital twins, and IoT. In 2025, 70% of these projects integrate AI, and 36% are dedicated to sustainable development, reflecting ALTEN’s commitment to technological excellence and environmental responsibility.

This approach is structured around the Smart Digital initiative, comprising nine cross-sector research programmes covering all the Group’s business areas from Smart Design to Smart Healthcare, including Smart Factory 4.0 and Smart Mobility. What sets this approach apart is its bottom-up nature: consultants, in daily contact with real-world challenges, directly define R&D topics, ensuring the relevance and concrete impact of the innovations developed.

To amplify this dynamic, ALTEN relies on a vast ecosystem of leading academic and industrial partners, as well as strategic technological alliances with Mistral AI, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. This commitment was recognised with the 2025 Innovation Award from KPMG and Numeum, honouring the Group’s excellence in technological innovation for the digital and sustainable transformation of its clients.

Founded in 1988 by three engineers, ALTEN built its vision on technical excellence, agility, and human-centric values:

• A conviction: innovating for useful and responsible technological progress.
• A strategic partner for major corporations in their R&D and innovative projects, immersing itself in their challenges.
• A demanding engineering culture, combining expertise and knowledge sharing.
• A hybrid model: the reactivity of a start-up with the robustness of an industrial player.
• People at the centre: training, mobility, and fulfilment as drivers of performance.

1. Internationalisation: Evolving from a French company to a Group operating in over 35 countries, with 57,400 employees from over 100 nationalities, doubling in size since 2017.

2. Differentiation: Establishing itself not just as a service provider, but as a trusted technological partner for major industrial clients, thanks to its dual expertise in Engineering and IT Services        .

3. Innovation: Structuring an ambitious and sustainable innovation approach through 11 ALTEN Labs, the Smart Digital initiative, and top-tier academic and industrial partnerships.

4. Talent: Attracting, training, and retaining the best engineers in the context of global skills shortages, making ALTEN a true “House of Engineers”.

5. CSR: Turning voluntary commitments made as early as 2010 with the UN Global Compact into measurable and recognised results, long before regulatory requirements.

6. Digital & AI: Integrating the digital revolution and AI into the core of client projects and internal operations, with over 5,000 Data and AI experts deployed across the Group.

7. Economic resilience: Navigating slowdowns (health crisis, automotive downturn, pressure on certain European markets) while preserving financial strength and commercial positions with major clients.

In a world where AI is reshaping industries, cyber threats are escalating, and digital sovereignty is a strategic priority, ALTEN has chosen to anticipate rather than react. This adaptability is built on several key pillars:

–          AI at the Core of Operations

The A³ (AI AT ALTEN) programme has established a large-scale, ISO 42001-certified AI organisation, mobilising 5,000+ Data and AI experts to embed AI in client projects, internal services, and operations.

–          Strategic Technology Partnerships

By collaborating with leading partners (Mistral AI, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AWS), ALTEN ensures sovereign, secure solutions tailored to the most demanding sectoral constraints.

–          A Comprehensive and Scalable IT Services Offering

From strategic consulting to hybrid infrastructure security, including cloud migration and data management, ALTEN covers the entire digital value chain with 21,000 IT consultants across 20 countries.

–          Training as an Adaptation Lever

With over 500,000 training hours delivered annually, ALTEN invests heavily in upskilling teams to keep pace with technological evolution.

–          Grounded Innovation

Through 11 ALTEN Labs and the Smart Digital initiative, the Group anticipates technological disruptions by addressing real client needs, ensuring relevant and immediately operational innovations.

For ALTEN, adapting to technological challenges means pushing the boundaries of innovation to build tomorrow’s world today.

Research and Development (R&D) is a strategic pillar at ALTEN, driven by a network of 11 innovation laboratories and structured around the Smart Digital initiative, which focuses its efforts on 9 programmes and over 100 active projects. The allocation of R&D resources reflects the Group’s key technological priorities.

These investments are concretely organised around three main axes:

Artificial Intelligence (AI), with 70% of research projects integrating AI and 30% of projects delivering a 30% optimisation gain. The Group deploys agent-based solutions, advanced data analytics capabilities, and code generation tools, leveraging strategic partnerships with Mistral AI, Google, and NVIDIA.

Cybersecurity and digital sovereignty, in a context of escalating cyber threats and strengthened European regulations. Cybersecurity, data, machine learning, PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), and digital twins are driving growth in the digital market and represent priority investment areas for the Group.

Sustainable innovation, including decarbonised mobility, energy efficiency, and the circular economy. ALTEN develops technological solutions that simultaneously address the environmental and social challenges faced by its clients, as part of a proactive policy led by its Innovation Department.

These investments are conducted in close collaboration with leading academic partners, such as CentraleSupélec, Mines ParisTech, and LAAS-CNRS, ensuring research that is both ambitious and grounded in real-world applications.

Yes! ALTEN welcomes unsolicited applications, even if no current opening matches your profile. The Group values diversity and supports employees through training, career paths (Specialist, Project Management, Business Management, Support Functions), and international mobility opportunities.

Yes, depending on the role, ALTEN may include technical tests (practical exercises) or case studies (simulations).

At ALTEN, candidates typically receive feedback within 1 to 2 weeks, depending on the process complexity and decision-maker availability.

Yes, the process varies:

• Support Functions: Focus on role-specific and soft skills (tailored assessments).
• Graduates: HR + technical interviews.
• Experienced Professionals: In-depth interviews + complex case studies.

ALTEN is committed to creating an environment where cultural diversity and each individual’s unique skills are valued. By fostering cross-border collaboration and global professional development, we build an ecosystem where every talent actively contributes to shaping an innovative and sustainable future.

ALTEN trains its employees in new technologies (generative AI, cybersecurity, job-specific tools) through multiple approaches:

• Career development: Internal training catalogue to support long-term professional growth.
• Proactive training policy: Anticipating future challenges with targeted programmes.
• Internal training centres: Dedicated spaces for each employee segment, encouraging exchange and peer learning.
• Operational approach: Tailored training to meet business needs, with a focus on technological and organisational challenges.
• Structured pathways
• Onboarding: Customised programmes for new employees.

ALTEN applies the same rigour to extra-financial performance as it does to financial results, using structured frameworks, external certifications, and independent assessments to track and verify real-world impact.

• Environment: A 60% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to 2019, with targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), maintaining a CDP Climate Change rating at B level, and ISO 14001 certification covering the majority of the Group’s workforce.
• Social: A score of 89/100 on the Gender Equality Index, 60% of employees covered by a health and safety management system, and over 500,000 hours of training delivered annually.
• Overall Rating: An EcoVadis score of 85/100, placing ALTEN in the top 1% of its sector, and an EthiFinance ranking that improved by 7 points in one year.

This data is transparently communicated in the annual report and subject to verification by an independent third-party organisation, in compliance with CSRD Directive requirements.

This rigorous measurement approach reflects a core belief at ALTEN: A commitment without measurable indicators is merely an intention. It is transparency and verifiability that turn ambitions into sustainable performance.

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Aligning our employees’ skills with the evolving demands of their roles and organisational structures is a cornerstone of our success. We have implemented an ambitious training policy that anticipates tomorrow’s challenges. Our internal training centres, tailored to each segment of our workforce, provide a collaborative and stimulating environment. The programmes are designed to be practical and directly responsive to the needs of our business, enabling us to tackle technological and organisational challenges.

Specialised onboarding pathways facilitate the integration of new employees, while an internal training catalogue supports their ongoing professional development.

ALTEN focuses on continuous, tailored training including e-learning catalogues, the internal AMPLIFY Engineers university and certifications, alongside four distinct career paths (management, technical expertise, business, and support) to develop employees’ skills.

The Group also promotes internal mobility, mentoring, and personalised support, particularly in the early stages of an employee’s journey, to align with individual aspirations and keep pace with technological advancements.

ALTEN promotes gender equality (through its Diversity Charter, UN Women’s Empowerment Principles, and Women@ALTEN network) and inclusion (supporting employees with disabilities and dedicated partnerships). The Group celebrates diversity through training, events, and skills sponsorship.

Recognitions:

Top 1% globally (EcoVadis Platinum, score 85/100).

CDP Climate Transparency: A- rating.

Commitment:

Strategy aligned with the 2030 Agenda, combining performance and responsibility.

Learn more about ALTEN’s CSR approach.

ALTEN has signed the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles, reinforcing the role of women in scientific and technical fields, and was recognised as a Leader in Inclusion by La Financière Responsable in 2024.

Key Actions:

• Inclusive environment with initiatives for work-life balance and workplace well-being.
• High Gender Equality Index scores (e.g., 89/100 for ALTEN SA in 2025).
• Access to leadership roles through tailored training and professional development.

Innovation positions ALTEN as a leader in high-growth markets (AI, sovereign cloud, energy transition), enabling the Group to offer unique solutions and avoid price-based competition. By combining technological expertise and hybrid models, ALTEN retains clients and captures new market share, resulting in sustainable growth, strong margins, and recognised differentiation in engineering and consulting.

For support functions, ALTEN has a remote work charter outlining authorised days. For consultants, remote work depends on client missions and rules, with flexibility varying by role and function. This approach balances efficiency and work-life harmony.

For experienced engineers, ALTEN offers the opportunity to work on complex and innovative projects across various industrial sectors. The company enables professionals to leverage and further develop their technical expertise, including roles as technical referents or subject-matter experts. It also provides opportunities to transition into project or team management.

Additionally, ALTEN promotes continuous training and helps build a strong professional network with major clients.

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At ALTEN, the Business Manager develops and maintains client relationships, identifies their needs, and proposes tailored solutions. They also oversee consultants on assignments, ensuring the smooth execution of projects and client satisfaction. The role involves collaboration with technical teams and offers training through the internal Amplify Academy.

Additionally, the position provides career progression opportunities, mobility options, and an attractive compensation package (including a fixed salary and performance-related bonus).

 Learn more about Business Manager roles.

As a support function professional at ALTEN, you contribute to the smooth operation and growth of an international Group. The role allows you to develop your skills through training, modern work tools, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. It also offers career progression and internal mobility opportunities, depending on individual career paths and available roles.

Additionally, ALTEN provides a structured work environment, along with social benefits and conditions that promote work-life balance.

Learn more about support roles.

ALTEN prioritises quality of life at work by offering a stimulating environment, personalised development pathways, an inclusive culture, and flexible arrangements (such as remote work and adaptable schedules). Its CSR commitment and active listening (through surveys and HR support) further enhance employee well-being and performance.

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Yes! ALTEN provides dedicated programmes for students and graduates:

• Internships for hands-on experience, often leading to permanent roles.
• Apprenticeships to combine studies with practical experience.
• VIE (International Corporate Volunteer Programme) for international technical or commercial projects.

 Learn more about young graduate programmes.

ALTEN hires apprentices only for support functions, with no direct pathway to engineering roles. However, internal progression within support teams is possible, depending on individual profiles, availability and skills.