Senior Scientist AI & ML

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Job Title: Senior Scientist - Cyber AI (Artificial Intelligence) / ML (Machine Learning) Research

Location: Newport - Minimum of 3 days on site

Full Time: 35 Hours Per Week

Employment Type: Contract - 12 Months

Belcan are currently working with a leading client in the aerospace/defence industry, to support them with their search for a Senior Scientist - Cyber AI & ML. They are looking for a Senior Scientist to join them on a 12 month contract, with a very high possibility of extension.

For this position, the suitable candidate will undertake cutting edge digital security research and innovation activities with the goal of developing solutions to the business' problems for which a solution doesn't currently exist. Furthermore, the suitable candidate builds and maintains awareness and knowledge of best-practice technology trends and commercially available digital security solutions.

Key Responsibilities

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

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.

If you are interested, please apply, and one of our team will be in contact soon!

This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan

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