AI Security Research Engineer

The Role We are looking for an AI Security Research Engineer to join The Alan Turing Institute s Defence and National Security team, helping to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and robust technical delivery. This role will focus on designing and running rigorous, reproducible experiments, building high-quality prototypes and research tooling, and evaluating AI systems for security, robustness, reliability and adversarial behaviour. Working closely with researchers and external partners, the postholder will combine strong software engineering skills with curiosity about how modern AI systems behave under stress, helping turn innovative ideas into reliable, extensible technical solutions with real-world impact. Your Profile We re looking for a technically strong and rigorous research engineer who combines excellent software engineering fundamentals with a real interest in how modern AI systems behave in practice, particularly under stress, attack or failure conditions. The ideal candidate will be confident working with programming languages used in data science, experienced in structuring and analysing research data or computational experiments, and comfortable operating both independently and collaboratively in a research-driven environment. They will care about clean, well-tested, reproducible work, communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, and bring a thoughtful, problem-solving mindset to real-world security challenges. Experience ..... full job details .....