AI Security Researcher — High-Impact in Regulated AI

CommonAI CIC; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension

Cambridge office near train station

Professional development

Networking opportunities

Job summary

CommonAI CIC is seeking an AI Security Researcher with an attacker mindset to help secure and audit AI systems used in regulated environments. You will track advances in model attacks, defenses, and security of serving pipelines while contributing to the High Assurance programme.

You will evaluate AI systems, test interpretability approaches, and share findings with Members. The role emphasizes threat modelling, red-teaming, and developing robust, auditable AI solutions within a collaborative

Qualifications

• Proven security research experience including offensive testing.
• Understanding of how modern AI systems train, deploy and serve.
• Familiar with AI attacks: jailbreaks, data poisoning, prompts.
• Strong Python and ability to build tools
• Excellent written communication for briefings
• Ability to challenge technical decisions constructively

Responsibilities

• Track key research and developments relevant to the High Assurance programme, including attacks on AI models, defences against them, and the security of the systems that serve them
• Report on what these developments mean for the programme and our Members, through written briefings and presentations
• Review the programme's technical decisions and directions from an attacker's point of view, and propose stronger alternatives
• Threat-model AI systems used in regulated settings, covering model weights, training data, inference serving, and the tools and agents built on them
• Red-team the systems we build, within an agreed scope, and report findings through a clear disclosure process
• Help develop interpretability methods for the simpler models produced by our frontier research, and test their limits, for example by trying to hide behaviour the methods should detect
• Build internal expertise by sharing what you learn with colleagues and helping answer technical questions from our Members

Skills

Security research

Offensive security

Adversarial ML

Python

Technical writing

LLM tooling

Attacker mindset

Education

PhD in security or ML

Master's in related field

Tools

Jupyter

PenTest tools

Git

Job description

CommonAI CIC is seeking an AI Security Researcher with an attacker mindset to help secure and audit AI systems used in regulated environments. You will track advances in model attacks, defenses, and security of serving pipelines while contributing to the High Assurance programme.

You will evaluate AI systems, test interpretability approaches, and share findings with Members. The role emphasizes threat modelling, red-teaming, and developing robust, auditable AI solutions within a collaborative