Offensive Security Researcher

Added 22/09/2026

We are seeking an Offensive Security Researcher to identify, investigate, and help mitigate security weaknesses across applications, infrastructure, devices, and emerging technologies. You will conduct authorised penetration tests, vulnerability research, red-team activities, and security assessments to uncover realistic attack paths and evaluate the effectiveness of existing controls. The role involves researching new exploitation techniques, developing proof-of-concept code in controlled environments, analysing vulnerabilities, and translating technical findings into practical recommendations. You will collaborate with software engineers, security specialists, infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders throughout the assessment lifecycle. Responsibilities include defining test objectives and scope, conducting reconnaissance, performing manual and automated testing,...

Offensive Security Engineer

Added 22/09/2026

We are seeking an Offensive Security Engineer to help identify, validate, and reduce security risks across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, and corporate systems. You will work as part of a collaborative security function, conducting authorised penetration tests, red team exercises, vulnerability assessments, and adversary simulations. Your work will help strengthen defensive capabilities, improve detection and response, and provide practical recommendations that support secure business operations. Key responsibilities include planning and executing engagements across web applications, APIs, networks, endpoints, wireless environments, containers, and cloud platforms. You will research emerging attack techniques, develop or adapt tools and proof-of-concept exploits, assess the potential...

Misuse Red Team - Research Engineer/Research Scientist

Added 24/09/2026

We are seeking a Misuse Red Team Research Engineer/Research Scientist to investigate how advanced AI systems may be misused, manipulated, or deployed in harmful ways. You will design and conduct rigorous adversarial evaluations, develop realistic misuse scenarios, and assess model behaviour across areas such as cyber abuse, fraud, privacy, manipulation, disinformation, and other emerging risks. Your work will help identify vulnerabilities before they can be exploited and inform practical improvements to model safeguards, monitoring, and deployment policies. Responsibilities will include creating evaluation methodologies, red-team prompts, automated test suites, and simulation environments; conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis of model outputs; documenting...

Control Red Team - Research Engineer/Research Scientist

Added 24/09/2026

We are seeking a Control Red Team Research Engineer or Research Scientist to investigate how advanced AI systems can be evaluated, challenged and kept reliably under human direction. You will design and conduct rigorous experiments that test model behaviour under adversarial, ambiguous and high-pressure conditions, with a particular focus on control, oversight, robustness and the risk of systems pursuing unintended objectives. Your work will help identify weaknesses in evaluation methods, monitoring approaches and operational safeguards, and translate findings into practical improvements. Responsibilities will include developing threat models and red-team strategies; creating test environments, scenarios and benchmarks; designing automated and human-in-the-loop...

Alignment Red Team - Research Engineer/Research Scientist

Added 16/09/2026

We are seeking an Alignment Red Team Research Engineer/Research Scientist to investigate how advanced AI systems can fail, be misused, or behave unexpectedly under challenging conditions. You will design and conduct rigorous adversarial evaluations of models, agents, and safety mechanisms, with the goal of identifying vulnerabilities before they create meaningful real-world risks. The role combines scientific research, engineering, critical thinking, and practical experimentation in a highly collaborative environment. Your responsibilities will include developing threat models and evaluation methodologies; creating adversarial prompts, scenarios, tools, and test environments; probing models for deceptive, unsafe, biased, or otherwise misaligned behaviour; and building automated pipelines...

Research Technical Manager, AI Driven Cyber Security

Added 12/10/2026

We are seeking a Research Technical Manager, AI Driven Cyber Security, to lead the development of innovative research and engineering programmes at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and emerging digital threats. This role will oversee the translation of advanced research into practical tools, methods and prototypes that strengthen the detection, prevention and response capabilities of security teams. You will provide technical direction across multidisciplinary projects, balancing scientific ambition with operational relevance, usability and measurable impact. Responsibilities will include defining research priorities, shaping technical roadmaps and managing delivery from early investigation through validation and deployment. You will lead and mentor...

Senior Security Researcher - Vulnerability Research & Mitigations

Added 30/10/2026

We are seeking a Senior Security Researcher to lead advanced vulnerability research and develop practical mitigations for complex software and hardware systems. This role will suit an experienced security professional who enjoys investigating emerging threats, uncovering previously unknown weaknesses and translating technical findings into robust, implementable security improvements. You will conduct vulnerability research across areas such as operating systems, applications, embedded platforms, cloud environments, networks and hardware-assisted security. Your responsibilities will include threat modelling, vulnerability discovery, exploitability assessment, proof-of-concept development and root-cause analysis. You will also design and validate mitigations, assess their effectiveness and help define security requirements for future...

Security and Privacy Research Team Leader

Added 27/10/2026

We are seeking an experienced Security and Privacy Research Team Leader to guide a multidisciplinary team conducting high-quality research into emerging security, privacy and digital trust challenges. This is an opportunity to shape research priorities, translate complex technical findings into practical recommendations and contribute to projects with meaningful societal and organisational impact. You will provide strategic and technical leadership across a portfolio of research activities, setting objectives, managing resources and ensuring that work is delivered to a high standard and within agreed timescales. You will mentor researchers, support professional development and foster an inclusive, collaborative environment that encourages innovation, constructive...

Hardware and Firmware Security Research Engineer

Added 07/10/2026

We are seeking a Hardware and Firmware Security Research Engineer to investigate, assess, and improve the security of embedded platforms and connected devices. In this role, you will research vulnerabilities across hardware, boot processes, firmware, operating systems, interfaces, and supporting development tools. You will work throughout the product lifecycle, from early architecture and design reviews through implementation, testing, deployment, and remediation. The position offers the opportunity to combine practical experimentation with rigorous technical analysis in a fast-moving security environment. Your responsibilities will include performing penetration testing, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, binary analysis, and fault-injection or side-channel investigations where appropriate. You...

AI Security Researcher/Research Engineer

Added 08/09/2026

We are seeking an AI Security Researcher/Research Engineer to investigate emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and defensive techniques across artificial intelligence and machine learning systems. You will help assess the security, reliability, and resilience of models, data pipelines, agents, and supporting infrastructure, translating research findings into practical improvements. This role is suited to someone who enjoys working across theoretical research, hands-on experimentation, and engineering implementation in a fast-changing technical environment. Your responsibilities will include designing and executing evaluations of model behaviour, adversarial robustness, privacy, data poisoning, prompt injection, model extraction, misuse, and other relevant attack or failure modes. You will develop proof-of-concept...

Cybersecurity Engineer (Research Infrastructure)

Added 22/10/2026

An exciting opportunity is available for a Cybersecurity Engineer (Research Infrastructure) to help protect complex, high-value computing and data environments. You will work alongside infrastructure, research, software and information security specialists to ensure that systems supporting critical research are secure, resilient and compliant with relevant policies and regulatory obligations. Your responsibilities will include designing, implementing and maintaining security controls across on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure, networks, endpoints and research platforms. You will identify vulnerabilities, assess risks and coordinate remediation activity, while supporting secure configuration, patch management, identity and access management, encryption and network segmentation. You will also contribute to security architecture...

Attack Surface Research Analyst

Added 15/10/2026

We are seeking an Attack Surface Research Analyst to identify, assess and monitor the digital assets and technologies that could expose an organisation to cyber risk. You will research internet-facing infrastructure, domains, subdomains, cloud services, applications, APIs and third-party dependencies, helping to maintain an accurate and continuously evolving view of the external attack surface. Your analysis will support the prioritisation of vulnerabilities and inform practical risk-reduction activity across technical and business teams. Responsibilities will include conducting open-source intelligence and technical research, discovering previously unknown assets, validating ownership and exposure, and analysing vulnerability intelligence, configuration weaknesses and emerging threats. You will...

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer - Autonomous Vulnerability Research (Harness Engineering)

Added 30/09/2026

We are seeking a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to help build the infrastructure and engineering harnesses that support autonomous vulnerability research. You will work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, software engineering, security research and developer productivity, creating reliable platforms that enable automated discovery, validation and analysis of security weaknesses across diverse systems. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and improving the safety, scale and repeatability of advanced research workflows. Your responsibilities will include designing, implementing and operating secure, scalable platforms for automated testing and experimentation; developing CI/CD pipelines, orchestration systems and...

Vulnerability Research Team Leader

Added 18/09/2026

We are seeking an experienced Vulnerability Research Team Leader to guide a specialist team responsible for identifying, analysing, and responsibly disclosing security vulnerabilities across operating systems, applications, embedded devices, and emerging technologies. You will provide technical direction, set research priorities, and help translate complex findings into practical recommendations for engineering, product, and security stakeholders. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management and strategic planning. Key responsibilities include defining and maintaining the team’s research roadmap; overseeing vulnerability discovery, exploit development, reverse engineering, fuzzing, and proof-of-concept creation; reviewing technical reports and ensuring findings are accurately assessed and documented; and coordinating...

Research Assistant in Vulnerability Modelling

Added 09/09/2026

We are seeking a Research Assistant in Vulnerability Modelling to support research into the factors that influence vulnerability, risk and resilience across individuals, communities, systems or environments. You will contribute to the development, testing and application of quantitative and qualitative models, helping to transform complex evidence into robust insights for research, policy and practice. The role offers the opportunity to work across interdisciplinary projects and collaborate with researchers, data specialists and external stakeholders. Your responsibilities will include conducting literature reviews, gathering and cleaning datasets, selecting appropriate modelling approaches, and implementing analyses using relevant statistical, computational or geospatial techniques. You will...