AI-Driven Security Researcher

Darktrace; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

23 days holiday

Birthday day off

Private medical insurance for you and/

Life insurance 4x base salary

Salary sacrifice pension

Enhanced family leave

Employee Assistance Program

Cycle to work

Job summary

Darktrace is seeking a Security Researcher to investigate emerging cyber threats and attacker behaviours, turning findings into improvements in our AI-driven threat detection. You will work with teams across the business to advance our technology and threat-detection capabilities.

Ideal candidates have a solid technical foundation, curiosity, and the ability to learn quickly about unfamiliar problems, including AI security challenges.

Qualifications

• Strong grasp of networking basics and core security concepts.
• Familiarity with attacker techniques, TTPs across multiple domains.
• Interest in AI systems and agentic AI security challenges.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities for complex issues.
• Good organizational skills and ability to clearly communicate findings.

Responsibilities

• Investigating emerging threat actor techniques, tactics and procedures (TTPs) across production and lab environments.
• Analysing security data to understand attacker behaviours and identify opportunities to improve detection and response.
• Working closely with development teams, sharing research findings and helping inform future research and product development.
• Supporting the development and testing of new approaches to detecting malicious or anomalous activity.
• Undertaking data analysis, scripting and other technical research to continuously improve our products and capabilities.
• Keeping up to date with developments across the cyber threat landscape and applying relevant findings to ongoing research.

Skills

Networking fundamentals

Security TTPs

AI security interest

Analytical thinking

Clear communication

Job description

Darktrace is seeking a Security Researcher to investigate emerging cyber threats and attacker behaviours, turning findings into improvements in our AI-driven threat detection. You will work with teams across the business to advance our technology and threat-detection capabilities.

Ideal candidates have a solid technical foundation, curiosity, and the ability to learn quickly about unfamiliar problems, including AI security challenges.