Senior Research Associate: Agentic AI Security for 5G

University of Bristol Law School; West of England; Sur place; GBP 41 000 - 59 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

University of Bristol invites applications for an outstanding researcher to join the AURA project, focusing on security challenges of AI-native future networks. The role involves analyzing threat landscapes, adversarial testing, runtime assurance, and zero-trust enforcement for autonomous AI layers in private 5G networks.

The successful candidate will produce novel research, contribute to high-profile publications, and collaborate with the JOINER infrastructure and project partners across

Qualifications

• PhD or near completion in computer science, computer engineering, networks, or communications.
• In-depth understanding of cybersecurity concepts, threats, vulnerabilities, and AI applications in network security.
• Experience with Agentic AI security in 5G and Beyond networks.

Responsabilités

• Identify and document the threat landscape across data ingestion, intent interface, and execution layers of the Agentic AI system.
• Simulate and demonstrate agent misuse and multi-agent coordination attack scenarios on a live partner platform to establish an attack landscape.
• Design intent-to-policy mapping to translate agent intent into verifiable policy constraints.
• Develop a runtime decision validation engine to evaluate proposed actions against security models.
• Implement dynamic trust scoring based on agent behavior and monitoring across decision patterns and network-layer security impacts.
• Develop automated mitigation strategies, including rollback and agent isolation protocols for compromised agents.
• Publish findings in high-impact journals and present at major conferences.
• Evaluate research experimentally using the partner's platform and university experimentation infrastructure.

Connaissances

Agentic AI security

Python programming

Linux/Unix proficiency

Formation

PhD or near completion in CS/CE/networks

Outils

Python

Description du poste

University of Bristol invites applications for an outstanding researcher to join the AURA project, focusing on security challenges of AI-native future networks. The role involves analyzing threat landscapes, adversarial testing, runtime assurance, and zero-trust enforcement for autonomous AI layers in private 5G networks.

The successful candidate will produce novel research, contribute to high-profile publications, and collaborate with the JOINER infrastructure and project partners across