Research Engineer, Agentic Critical-Systems Cyber-Security

The Role This Research Engineer role sits within The Alan Turing Institute s Defence and National Security programme and focuses on designing, building and evaluating LLM-driven agentic systems to strengthen the cyber resilience of critical national infrastructure, particularly legacy operational technology and industrial control systems that cannot easily be patched or upgraded. The postholder will develop autonomous hardening and monitoring capabilities, create realistic digital twin and simulation environments, run robust large-scale evaluations, and produce high-quality research software, technical outputs, and publications, while working closely with multidisciplinary experts across AI, cyber security and critical systems. It s a highly applied research role suited to someone excited by combining machine learning, software engineering and cyber security to solve complex real-world resilience challenges with national importance. Your Profile We re looking for a technically strong and collaborative research engineer with a solid grounding in AI, machine learning, cyber or information security, computer science, engineering, or a related field, ideally educated to Master s level or with equivalent experience. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience building LLM-powered agentic or tool-calling systems, strong scientific software development skills in Python and related frameworks and a track record of delivering practical research or engineering outputs with ..... full job details .....