Our client has an opportunity for a Senior Scientist to join them on a contract basis. You will be undertaking 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.

Role: Senior Scientist –Cyber AI / ML Research
Location: Newport (minimum 3 days onsite)
Hours: 35 hours
Clearance: BPSS required to start
Hourly Rate: £50ph via Umbrella, inside IR35

What you’ll be doing:

Coordination:

• Coordinate Cyber Security innovation across the business to maximise alignment.
• Build and maintain a working network across the company 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.
• 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:

• Provide consultancy services on your specialist area of Cyber Security innovation across the business to ensure knowledge transfer and ensure.
• 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:

• 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.
• 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
• Prototype solutions, software, configurations, shared expertise. - Horizon scans, market studies, technical reports. - Internal & external proposals

Skill Set
Essential
Academic:

• Bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, or Maths/Computer Science with AI modules.
• Recent PhD or Masters relevant to "Cyber Security of AI ML".

Experience:

• Deep AI/ML algorithm and application knowledge (ideally Cyber aspects)
• Experience of research, innovation and/or solution development.

Research Skills:

• Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
• Excellent spoken and written English.

Technical skills:

• Technical specialist in AI / ML / Data Science techniques.
• Software Development: Strong Python skills.

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please apply!

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