Senior ML & System Security Researcher

European Tech Recruit; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

European Tech Recruit in Helsinki, Finland, is seeking a Senior Researcher in Machine Learning & System Security to join a specialist security research team on site. You will investigate how modern AI addresses platform and device security challenges, collaborating with ML, systems, and hardware researchers and engineers.

The role focuses on applied research with potential to move from prototypes to real-world security solutions, contributing to security tech across OS, kernels, and hardware

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research-level expertise in ML, CS, math, or statistics.
• Strong research experience applying ML to real problems, preferably in security.
• Experience with cybersecurity, secure systems, cryptography or security research.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop ML-based approaches for platform, system and device security.
• Design and evaluate anomaly detection, threat identification and behavioural analysis techniques.
• Investigate security threats across operating systems, embedded platforms and low-level software environments.
• Build research prototypes using real-world security datasets, system telemetry and execution data.
• Analyse model performance, robustness, false positives and deployment constraints.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate research into practical security solutions.

Skills

PhD in ML/CS

ML for security

Cybersecurity experience

Python ML

Experiment design

Education

PhD or equivalent

Tools

Python

ML frameworks

Job description

European Tech Recruit in Helsinki, Finland, is seeking a Senior Researcher in Machine Learning & System Security to join a specialist security research team on site. You will investigate how modern AI addresses platform and device security challenges, collaborating with ML, systems, and hardware researchers and engineers.

The role focuses on applied research with potential to move from prototypes to real-world security solutions, contributing to security tech across OS, kernels, and hardware