Security Researcher (AI Cybersecurity)

Location: Cambridge Office, United Kingdom; Other location: London Office, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global develops AI-driven cybersecurity technology for detecting and responding to novel, real-time cyber threats.

What you will do

• Investigate emerging threat actor techniques, tactics and procedures across production and laboratory environments.
• Analyse security data to understand attacker behaviours and identify opportunities to improve detection and response.
• Collaborate with development teams to share research findings and inform research and product development.
• Support the development and testing of approaches for detecting malicious or anomalous activity.
• Perform data analysis, scripting and technical research to improve products and capabilities.
• Monitor developments across the cyber threat landscape and apply relevant findings to ongoing research.

Requirements

• Good understanding of networking fundamentals and core security concepts.
• Understanding of common attacker techniques, tactics and procedures, with familiarity across network, cloud, endpoint and email security.
• Interest in emerging security challenges associated with AI systems and agentic AI.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate complex or unfamiliar technical problems.
• Good organisational skills and ability to communicate technical findings clearly.
• Collaborative approach, with the ability to work independently and make well-reasoned decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience or practical exposure in SOC analysis, incident response, detection engineering, threat hunting, malware research or threat research, including through employment, internships, academic research, personal projects or labs.
• Scripting or programming experience with Python, Bash or PowerShell.
• Experience with security datasets, data analysis or statistical techniques.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience with or knowledge of hirify.global products and technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with 23 days of annual leave plus public holidays, rising to 25 days after two years.
• Additional birthday day off, enhanced family leave and confidential employee assistance program.
• Private medical insurance covering the employee, cohabiting partner and children.
• Life insurance worth four times base salary and a salary sacrifice pension scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme and a culture focused on ownership, collaboration, high standards, urgency and continuous learning.