Latest National Security Jobs

Senior Engineering Lead, Chem-Bio

This role involves leading a small engineering team within the Chem-Bio (CB) team at the AI Security Institute. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, managing engineers, designing and building reliable systems, and working closely with researchers to translate their needs into well-engineered solutions. The role also involves hiring, shaping engineering culture, and coordinating with other teams across the organization.

AI Security Institute London, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Expression of Interest- Chem Bio

This role involves conducting technical research to assess and mitigate chemical and biological risks posed by frontier AI systems. You'll design evaluations, develop benchmarks, and work on capability elicitation, threat modelling, and safeguards, translating findings for AI developers and government stakeholders. The work is interdisciplinary, combining machine learning, biosecurity, chemistry, and policy to produce actionable insights in a high-impact, mission-driven environment.

AI Security Institute London, United Kingdom £65,000 – £145,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Software Applications Engineer

This role involves designing and implementing software solutions for underwater robotics, focusing on the next generation of underwater vehicles. Responsibilities include developing new software, supporting existing codebases, and working with a range of technologies including C++, control software, and web technologies.

Saab Fareham, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Lead Software Engineer

The Lead Software Engineer will design and implement software solutions for underwater robotics applications, working closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex projects. Responsibilities include leading technical innovation, ensuring software quality, and mentoring junior engineers.

Saab Fareham, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Manager (AI Safety)

Why Faculty?We established Faculty in 2014 because we thought that AI would be the most important technology of our time. Since then, we’ve worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI. You can read about...

Faculty AI London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Research Scientist - AI Safety

This role involves leading high-impact AI safety research, focusing on red teaming and evaluation of frontier models in high-risk domains such as cybersecurity and CBRN. The scientist will drive technical research from concept to publication, develop safety-focused evaluations, and collaborate with government and commercial partners to shape real-world AI deployment. Work includes advancing mitigation strategies and contributing to national security-focused AI safety initiatives.

Faculty AI London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Sourcing Partner- Incubator for AI (i.AI)

The Sourcing Partner role involves identifying and engaging top AI talent across the UK, developing a deep understanding of the AI ecosystem, and building a strong network of candidates. You will create and execute effective search strategies, maintain lasting relationships, and collaborate with senior civil servants and technical staff to define role requirements and ensure a superior candidate experience.

Incubator for AI London, United Kingdom £44,195 – £48,620 pa

Contract Flexible

Lead Cloud Platform Engineer, AI Platform

Lead the design and operation of a cloud platform enabling AI product delivery across public services. Focus on building secure, scalable infrastructure, improving developer experience, and enabling production AI workloads with modern tooling. Drive technical standards and mentor engineers in a high-agency environment shaping the future of AI in government.

Incubator for AI United Kingdom £69,675 – £90,756 pa

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Staff Security Engineer

The Staff Security Engineer will lead endpoint and identity security systems within Wayve's internal platform and IT security engineering group, SPINE. This role involves deploying security tooling, automation, and infrastructure-as-code solutions to continuously improve security controls. The engineer will collaborate with security teams, mentor others, and use data to identify and remediate systemic security gaps across the organization.

Wayve London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Security Engineer (AI Safety), London, Lausanne

This role involves securing AI-driven drug discovery systems by designing risk frameworks, protecting machine learning artifacts, and implementing security controls across AI infrastructure. The engineer will lead incident response for AI-specific threats, enforce compliance with global regulations, and develop safety protocols for autonomous agentic workflows and large language models within a high-stakes scientific environment.

Isomorphic Labs United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Security Engineer

This role involves a 12-week training programme in threat detection and incident investigation using the Darktrace platform, followed by hands-on work on the Cyber AI Analyst product. You'll develop AI-driven hypotheses to automate security analysis across networks, email, and cloud environments, collaborating with machine learning and software engineering teams to research, deploy, and refine detection models based on real-world feedback.

Darktrace Cambridge, CB2 3BJ, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Security Engineer, London

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role in architecting and managing the security of Isomorphic Labs' AI-based platform and HPC infrastructure. You will work closely with DevOps, SRE, and other teams to ensure robust security practices, including threat modeling, incident response, and compliance automation.

Isomorphic Labs United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Security Engineer, Detection and Response - EMEA

About the TeamSecurity is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how...

OpenAI London, United Kingdom

Permanent

Automotive Product Security Lead

This role involves defining and maturing the automotive product security framework for Wayve’s AI-driven vehicle software, ensuring compliance with standards like ISO 21434 and UNECE R155 across R&D, robotaxi, and OEM programmes. The lead will guide teams on cybersecurity practices, assure cybersecurity cases, and translate regulatory and customer requirements into practical implementation, balancing rigour with agility in a fast-moving environment.

Wayve London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Head of Policy & Security Research Lab

This role involves leading the Policy Research Lab at Scale AI, driving strategic initiatives related to AI safety and security. Responsibilities include managing a team of researchers, collaborating with global AI safety institutes, and setting trends in the policy and research communities.

Scale AI United Kingdom £198,000 – £247,000 pa

On-site Permanent