Senior Scientist - Human Centric Security Research
12 month contract (possible extension)
Newport - 3 days onsite per week
£45 per hour, inside IR35 (umbrella)
Subject to BPSS check
Accountabilities
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This jobholder undertakes cutting edge digital security research and innovation activities with the ultimate goal of developing solutions to the business’ problems for which a solution doesn’t currently exist. Further, the jobholder builds and maintains awareness and knowledge of best-practice technology trends and commercially available digital security solutions. The following accountabilities are described giving the scope of their applicability:
The jobholder will be accountable for activities in each of the following areas:
Coordination:
- Coordinate Cyber Security innovation across the business to maximise alignment.
- Build and maintain a working network across the business among subject matter peers and stakeholders.
- Undertake internal & external engagements on behalf of the digital security office.
Collaboration:
- Collaborate in Cyber Security innovation activities with internal peers, to ensure cyber security is considered in joint projects and deliverables.
Consultancy:
- Provide consultancy services on your specialist area of Cyber Security innovation across the business to ensure knowledge transfer and ensure.
Innovation:
- Deliver innovation projects, activity reports and presentations to cost, quality and time constraints. Build and maintain a research network to support the specialist Cyber Security subject.
- Support the development and maintenance of a Cyber Innovation Roadmap for your specialist area to capture future threats, opportunities and potential projects.
Main activities
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Coordination:
- Provide significant contributions to the transition of innovation knowledge and technologies into the business and digital security operations, including training, presentations and reports.
- Participate in a group-wide cyber innovation steering body.
- Attend and contribute to conferences and events (business / academic).
Collaboration:
- Support external digital security innovation agreements, collaborations and partnerships with specialist subject expertise and industrial / context-of-use guidance.
- Provide expert services (consultancy) to the internal business on the specialist cyber subject, and as required.
Consultancy:
- Contribute knowledge and advice on cyber aspects of your specialist topic to internal peers across the business and digital security operations.
- Manage onboarding and offboarding from projects for optimal use of time and resources.
Innovation:
- Undertake state of the art research projects into digital security topics of interest in support of the business, in partnership with the other members of the Cyber Security Innovation team.
- Maintain awareness of marketed solutions, innovation and gaps, then address gaps by developing and internally marketing prototype solutions.
- Collaborate with academic partners on research, and provide industrial steering.
- Contribute to academic funding bids, internally and with academic contacts.
- Publish technical reports, white papers, patents, academic articles, etc.
Outputs
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- Prototype solutions, software, configurations, shared expertise.
- Horizon scans, market studies, technical reports.
- Internal & external proposals.
Profile
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We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic, well organised and self-motivated colleague with a personal drive to analyse, innovate and create. The eventual role holder will substantially align with the following criteria (in particular with the “Must Haves”).
Academic:
Must Have:
- Bachelors degree in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning.
- Recent PhD or Masters relevant to _Cyber Security of AI ML_.
Advantage:
- Professional training / certifications and experience in Cyber Security.
Experience:
Must Have:
- Deep AI/ML algorithm and application knowledge (ideally Cyber aspects)
- Experience of research, innovation and/or solution development.
Advantage:
- Experience of managing digital security and/or R&I projects.
- Cyber industry publication (blogs, SANS articles etc).
- Experience in Cybersecurity of AI / ML.
- Experience in AI / ML applied to Cyber Security.
- Experience of patent applications and intellectual property management
Research Skills:
Must Have:
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
Advantage:
- Academic publication track record.
- Recent Cyber Security research publications.
- Managing NDAs, IPR, Patent Applications.
- Spoken & written French / German.
Technical skills:
Must Have:
- Technical specialist in AI / ML techniques.
Advantage:
- Data Analytics / AI/ML applied to Cyber Security (tools & techniques).
- AI/ML vulnerabilities.
- Software development / scripting / web apps, e.g. Python, Rust.