Senior Scientist - Cyber AI/ML Research Analyst - Newport/Remote - £50 per hour Umbrella

We are recruiting for a Cyber AI Research Analyst on contract for a leading Defence organisation. The role is based in their Newport offices 3 days and 2 remotely.

The following areas:

Coordination:

• Coordinate Cyber Security innovation across the business to maximise alignment.
• Build and maintain a working network across the business among subject matter peers and stakeholders.
• Undertake internal & external engagements on behalf of the digital security office.
• Provide significant contributions to the transition of innovation knowledge and technologies into the business and digital security operations, including training, presentations and reports.
• Participate in a group-wide cyber innovation steering body.
• Attend and contribute to conferences and events (business/academic).

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.

Academic research background

PHD/Masters within the last 5-10 years

Deep AI/ML algorithm and application knowledge (ideally Cyber aspects)

Experience of research, innovation and/or solution development.

Technical specialist in AI/ML techniques.

Bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.

Recent PhD or Masters relevant to "Cyber Security of AI ML".