Cyber Security Engineer – Cyber & Autonomous Systems Team

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential AI safety organization in London seeking exceptional cybersecurity engineers at all experience levels. In this role, you'll work at the forefront of frontier AI security, evaluating advanced AI systems for cybersecurity capabilities and risks.

Your day-to-day work will include:

• Evaluation Design & Development (60%)
  • Design cyber ranges and CTF-style challenges for automatically grading AI system performance on cybersecurity tasks
  • Build agentic scaffolding to evaluate frontier models, equipping them with tools such as network packet capture utilities, penetration testing frameworks, and reverse engineering/disassembly tools
  • Design metrics and interpret results of cyber capability evaluations
• Infrastructure Engineering (30%)
  • Work alongside other engineers to ensure evaluation environments are robust and scalable
• Research & Communication (10%)
  • Write reports, research papers and blog posts to share findings with stakeholders
  • Keep up-to-date with related research taking place in other organizations
  • Contribute to broader understanding of AI cyber risks

Example projects include onboarding new cyber ranges, conducting agent research to improve cyber capabilities, improving grading methodologies, integrating defensive telemetry into ranges, and collaborating on joint research publications.

What We're Looking For

Our client is flexible on the exact profile and expects successful candidates will meet many (but not necessarily all) of the criteria below:

Essential:

• Strong Python skills with experience writing scripts for automation or security tooling
• Proven experience in at least one of the following areas of cybersecurity red-teaming:
  • Penetration testing
  • Cyber range design
  • Competing in or designing CTFs
  • Developing automated security testing tools
  • Bug bounties, vulnerability research, or exploit discovery and patching
• Strong interest in helping improve the safety of AI systems

Desirable:

• Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as Proxmox VE and infrastructure-as-code approaches to enable reproducible test environments
• Ability to communicate cybersecurity research outcomes to technical and non-technical audiences
• Familiarity with cybersecurity tools such as network packet capture utilities, penetration testing frameworks, and reverse engineering/disassembly tools
• Active in the cybersecurity community with a track record of keeping up to date with new research
• Previous experience building or measuring the impact of automation tools on cyber red-teaming workflows

Motivated candidates are encouraged to apply even if you don't meet all the above criteria.

How We Work With You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai partners exclusively with leading organizations to connect exceptional candidates with high-impact roles. Here's how the process works:

• Submit your application through the Get A Job.ai platform
• A recruiter from our team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and fit
• We'll submit qualified candidates directly to our client for consideration
• Please do not contact the client directly; all communications should go through Get A Job.ai

This position is located in London and offers hybrid working arrangements. Successful candidates must be eligible for baseline personnel security standard (BPSS) clearance, with strong preference for counter-terrorist check (CTC) clearance eligibility.

Pay

The client's salary range for this role is £65,000–£145,000 annually, depending on experience level, made up of base salary plus technical allowance. An additional 28.97% employer pension contribution is paid on the base salary.

Compensation details are not finalized through Get A Job.ai at this time. Please discuss specific arrangements with our recruiting team during the screening process.

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