Job Description
Research and optimise AI agents for national security - 12 month FTC This National Security focused team is doing innovative work building both robust AI agents and realistic training environments for AI agents that will tackle cyber security threats against critical national infrastructure from water systems and power grids to military bases and government systems. They are urgently seeking a researcher to join the team on a 12-month fixed term contract. You will come from a software, electronics or engineering background with a PhD in cyber/information security, AI, machine learning or similar with specific research experience in systems security, network security, cyber-physical systems security, AI security, formal verification or systems and software assurance. Day-to-day you will be working to advance the state-of-the-art in three primary areas: Realistic environments to train and validate AI agents which mimic real-world networks. Novel AI agent architectures and technologies. AI agent evaluation tasks for cyber security. Requirements: A PhD (or equivalent research experience) in cyber security, information security, AI or a related area. Those who haven t been awarded their PhD yet will also be considered. Strong software development skills including Python and its various AI/ML focused libraries, version control (git) and Linux. A research mindset, able to plan and carry out a programme of research independently or collaboratively and produce publication standard ..... full job details .....